The Awntyrs off Arthure
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The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne is an Arthurian romance of 702 lines written in Middle English alliterative verse. Despite its title, it centres on the deeds of Sir Gawain. The poem, th
Tarn Wadling in Hesket, Cumberland, the Terne Wathelyne of the poem. The lake, once famous for its carp, was largely drained in the 1850s, and had disappeared by the 1940s
Early 15th century deer hunt, from a French manuscript. The poem opens with a deer hunt in "the depe delles" of Inglewood Forest.
The 14th century nave of Carlisle Cathedral, once an Augustinian priory. It has been suggested that the author of the Awntyrs may have been a canon at the priory
Lament for the Makaris
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"I that in Heill wes and Gladnes", also known as "The Lament for the Makaris", is a poem in the form of a danse macabre by the Scottish poet William Dunbar. Every fourth line repeats the Latin refrain
The Awntyrs off Arthure
…attributed it to the fifteenth century Scottish makar Clerk of Tranent whom William Dunbar refers to as the author of the Awnteris of Gawaine in his poem Lament for the Makaris. Though the manuscript copies display very different scribal dialects, there are traces of an underlying dialect of the far north-western borders of…
Breughel, The Triumph of Death (detail)