1. The Lady, the Goddess, and the Text of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
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WARNER, LAWRENCE
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MIDDLE English literature , *MARGINALIA , *WOMEN in literature , *GODDESSES in literature , *METAMORPHOSIS in literature , *MORGAN le Fay (Legendary character) , *TEXTUAL criticism ,HISTORY & criticism - Abstract
This essay argues in favor of two emendations concerning women in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: of MS "ÞaƷ I [i.e., the lady] were burde bryƷtest, þe burde in mynde hade" (line 1283) to "ÞaƷ [ho] were burde bryƷtest, þe bur[n]e in mynde hade," adopted by many editors but under increasing pressure in recent years; and of the convoluted MS passage in which Bertilak reveals the role of Morgan le Fay (lines 2445-55) to the clearer one resulting from Gollancz's addition of a line whereby he says that through her might he was transmogrified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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