Publisher's Synopsis
Gawain was the champion of Arthur, his nephew, and sometime seeker of the Holy Grail. The text is mainly republications of the translations of the classic tales from French and German sources by Ms. Jessie Laidlay Weston (1850-1928), who is famous for her scholarship of Arthurian legends and whose book From Ritual to Romance inspired T. S. Eliot for his poem Wasteland.
The Lore of Gawain is a compilation of all the tales and literature of the Arthurian knight Gawain including:- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Le Morte d'Arthur (only portions pertaining to Gawain)
- The Wedding of Sir Gawain & Dame Ragnelle
- Sir Gawain and the Lady of Lys
- Castle Orguellous
- Morien
- Sir Gawain and the Grail Castle
- Parzival-W. von Eschenbach (only portions pertaining to Gawain)
