The Knightly Virtue of Courtesy...that goes quite far: Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle @LiamsLyceum
The Knightly Virtue of Courtesy...that goes quite far: Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle  @LiamsLyceum
Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle is all about courtesy, but it goes so far that Gawain ends up sleeping with his host's daughter and married to her.

Read the METS edition here:
metseditions.org/read/mKRaxmNYsvW2Fr1wFDra4s8GNpK106d

The manuscript (thumbnail included) can be read here (beginning on 12r):
https://www.library.wales/discover-learn/digital-exhibitions/manuscripts/the-middle-ages/a-middle-english-miscellany

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