Pearl (poem)
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Pearl is a late 14th-century Middle English poem that is considered one of the most important surviving Middle English works. With elements of medieval allegory and from the dream vision genre, the po
Miniature from Cotton MS Nero A X. The Dreamer stands on the other side of the stream from the Pearl-maiden.
St Erkenwald, Saxon Prince, bishop and saint known as the "Light of London": inspiration for a potentially allied poem by the same poet
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a Middle English late 14th-century chivalric romance in alliterative verse. The author is unknown; the title was given centuries later. It is one of the best-known A
Pearl (poem)
…at the British Library, known as Pearl Manuscript, which includes two other religious narrative poems, Patience and Cleanness, as well as the romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. All are thought to be by the same author, dubbed the "Pearl Poet" or "Gawain Poet", on the evidence of stylistic and thematic similarities. The first…
First page of the only surviving manuscript, c. 14th century
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (from original manuscript, artist unknown)
The Shrine of St Erkenwald: the Saxon prince, bishop and saint is thought by some to have inspired the poet who wrote Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to write another eponymous poem.
The legendary Irish figure Cúchulainn faced a trial similar to Gawain's (Cúchulain Slays the Hound of Culain by Stephen Reid, 1904).