“An Exemplary British Knight, the famous Sir Gawain”. The Setting It was New Year’s Eve in King Arthur’s court. Feasting and conversation filled the ears of everyone anywhere close by. With no prior warning the large doors at the front of the hall fly open. Silence fills the air and gasps can be heard. Everyone’s attention was […]
King Arthur, a legendary figure according to British medieval history. It is said that he led the Britons in military campaigns against Saxon invaders in the late 5th and early 6th century. In Geoffrey of Monmouth’s 12th century Historia Regum Britanniae, King Arthur features as a great warrior defending Britain from human and sometimes supernatural enemies. The Birth of […]
Fionn MacCumhaill was the greatest leader of the legendary Fianna, an ancient warrior band of old Ireland. Fionn was the son of Cumhaill the leader of the Fianna. The Fianna were a band of mercenary warriors who lived apart from the rest of Gaelic society. The Fianna wandered around in the ancient Irish wilderness, with […]
“Cú chulainn, “The Gaelic Achilles” The Beginning Emain Macha, an ancient Irish stronghold, where the High King Conchobar MacNessa would rule all of Ulster. During the King of Ulster’s reign, his daughter and nobles went hunting magical birds. As snow began to fall, the King and his company seek shelter in a nearby house. Which is […]
The character Beowulf features as the main protagonist in what is considered the highest achievement of Old English literature and the earliest European vernacular epic. The epic is an epitomised history of the Teutonic race, a connection to the ancestral roots of the Anglo-Saxon people, their love of war, sea, and adventure. Beowulf himself is […]