2479
Wylde
wayeȝ
ways
in
þe
worlde
Wowen
Gawain
now
rydeȝ,
rides
Wild ways now Gawayne rides.
2480
On
Gryngolet,
þat
who
þe
grace
hade
geten
got
of
his
lyue;
life
2481
Ofte
he
herbered
lodged
in
house,
&
ofte
al
þeroute,
out-of-doors
Oft he harboured in house and oft thereout.
2482
&
mony
many a
a-venture
in vale,
by the way
&
venquyst
won victories
ofte,
2483
Þat
I
ne
not
tyȝt,
intend
at þis tyme,
now
in
tale
story
to
remene.
recount
2484
Þe
hurt
wound
watȝ
hole,
healed
þat
he
hade
hent
received
in
his
nek,
neck
The wound in his neck became whole.
2485
&
þe
blykkande
shining
belt
he
bere
wore
þeraboute,
round it
He still carried about him the belt,
2486
A belef
diagonally
as
like
a
bauderyk,
baldric
bounden
bound
bi
his
syde,
2487
Loken
fastened
vnder
his
lyfte
left
arme,
þe
lace,
belt
with
a
knot,
2488
In tokenyng
as a sign that
he
watȝ
tane
taken
in
tech
guilt
of
a
faute;
fault
in token of his fault.
2489
&
þus
he
commes
to
þe
court,
knyȝt
al in sounde.
in safety
Thus he comes to the Court of King Arthur.
2490
Þer
wakned
arose
wele
joy
in
þat
wone,
dwelling
when
wyst
knew
þe
grete,
great one
Great then was the joy of all.
2491
Þat
gode
G:
watȝ
commen,
gayn
a good thing
hit
hym
þoȝt;
seemed to
2492
Þe
kyng
kysseȝ
þe
knyȝt,
&
þe
whene
queen
alce,
also
The king and his knights ask him concerning his journey.
2493
&
syþen
then
mony
many a
syker
trusty
knyȝt,
þat
soȝt
went
hym
to
haylce,
greet
2494
Of
his
fare
fortune
þat
hym
frayned,
asked
&
ferlyly
of marvellous things
he
telles;
Gawayne tells them of his adventures,
2495
Biknowoȝ
confesses
alle
þe
costes of care
hardships
þat
he
hade,--
2496
Þe
chaunce
adventure
of
þe
chapel,
þe
chere
behaviour
of
þe
knyȝt,
124b
2497
Þe
luf
love
of
þe
ladi,
þe
lace
belt
at þe last.
at last
the love of the lady, and lastly of the lace.
2498
Þe
nirt
slight cut
in
þe
nek
neck
he
naked
bare
hem
them
schewed,
2499
Þat
he
laȝt
received
for
his
vnleute
disloyalty
at
þe
leudes
knight’s
hondes,
He showed them the cut in his neck.
2500
for blame;
as a rebuke
2501
He
tened
suffered torment
quen
when
he
schulde
had to
telle,
2502
He
groned
groaned
for
gref
grief
&
grame;
mortification
He groaned for grief and shame, and the blood rushed into his face.
2503
Þe
blod
in
his
face
con
did
melle,
rush
2504
When
he
hit
schulde
had to
schewe,
for
schame.
shame
Gawain rode over wild ways of the world. Sometimes he found rest in houses, and sometimes in the open air, and had many adventures in the valleys, and oft he overcame, and I will not try to tell it all. The hurt was healed that he had in his neck, and he still carried the glittering belt at his side; under his left arm was the lace, tied with a knot, in token that he was taken in a fault. Thus he came to court, a knight all unhurt. There was joy in that hall when the great ones knew that Sir Gawain was come back, and great gain they thought it. The king kissed the knight, and the queen also, and many a faithful knight sought to embrace him, and they asked him of his faring, and he told them all the wonders thereof and all the labours he had endured, the chance of the chapel, the doings of the Green Knight, the love-making of the lady, and of the lace last of all. Then he showed them the cut in his neck which for his disloyalty he received at the hand of the Green Knight
for blame.
He moaned as he did it tell,
The blood to his face then came,
As he groaned for grief as well,
When he showed it to them for shame.
Text and side-notes from Richard Morris (1869). Interlinear glosses from Brunetti. Translation from Ernest Kirtlan's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Rendered Literally Into Modern English.
Sources integrated and rendered by James K. Tauber.