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Episode 6: Dorsey Armstrong on "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and the Arthurian myth
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Episode 6: Dorsey Armstrong on "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and the Arthurian myth

A conversation about a strange and beautiful medieval poem

In today’s episode, I (https://x.com/Library_Babel1) talk to Prof. Dorsey Armstrong about a strange and beautiful medieval poem, the huge green man at its center (who looks more like a tree than a man, really), and how all of this fits into the enduring myth of King Arthur and his court of noble and not-so-noble knights at Camelot.

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