Alliterative verse
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In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal device to indicate the underlying metrical structure, as opposed to other devices such as rhyme. The most comm
The Old English epic poem Beowulf is written in alliterative verse.
The replicas of the Golden Horns of Gallehus exhibited at the National Museum of Denmark
Gawain Poet
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The "Gawain Poet", or less commonly the "Pearl Poet", is the name given to the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an alliterative poem written in 14th-century Middle English. Its author appear
The Gawain Poet (fl. c. 1375–1400), manuscript painting (as the father in Pearl)
The caves at Wetton Mill, near Leek, Staffordshire, have been identified as a possible inspiration for the "Green Chapel" in Gawain and the Green Knight, given the author's dialect and the geography indicated in the poem.