The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle
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| - | The "[[The Wife of Bath's Tale]]" is an example of the "[[loathly lady]]" motif, the oldest examples of which are the medieval Irish sovereignty myths such as [[Niall of the Nine Hostages]]. In the medieval poem ''[[The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle]]'', Arthur's nephew [[Gawain]] goes on a nearly identical quest to discover what women truly want. Some have theorized that the Wife's tale may have been written to ease Chaucer's guilty conscience. It is recorded that in 1380 associates of Chaucer stood surety for an amount equal to half his yearly salary for a charge brought by [[Cecily Champaign]] for "[[de rapto]]" rape or abduction; the same view has been taken of his [[Legend of Good Women]], which Chaucer himself describes as a penance. | + | '''''The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle''''' is a 15th-century [[England|English]] poem, one of several versions of the "[[loathly lady]]" story popular during the [[Middle Ages]]. An earlier version of the story appears as "[[The Wife of Bath's Tale]]" in [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]'s ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'', and the later ballad "[[The Marriage of Sir Gawain]]" is essentially a retelling, though its relationship to the medieval poem is uncertain. |
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The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle is a 15th-century English poem, one of several versions of the "loathly lady" story popular during the Middle Ages. An earlier version of the story appears as "The Wife of Bath's Tale" in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, and the later ballad "The Marriage of Sir Gawain" is essentially a retelling, though its relationship to the medieval poem is uncertain.
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