Pick a partner and answer the following questions using the links provided.
1. According to this site, how did Arthur discover he is the king?
2. What are two varying accounts of his death? Which account is reflective of the Malory's account in the textbook?
3. According to this site, how did Arthur retrieve the Sword in the Stone?
4. How did Arthur receive Excalibur?
5. How do artists typically represent Arthur's retrieval of the Sword in the Stone?
6. How do artists typically represent the reception of Excalibur?
7. What differences do you notice?
8. According to Ford, what is the code of chivalry for the Knights of the Round Table in Malory's work?
9. What is the code according to Boccaccio?
10. How many knights are of the Round Table?
11. Which knights show up in stories the most? (Check here and here).
12. According to Speller, what are some possible reasons for the creation of the Arthur legend?
13. What is the significance of Glastonbury Abbey to the legend?
14. What is the significance of Cadbury Castle to the legend?
Now look at Book II Stanzas 31-33 here.
15. What does Gawain do that makes him end up at the Castle of the Lady?
Move on the "next part" of Book II concerning his reception at the Castle.
16. What does Gawain ask the Lord (stanza 43)?
17. What does the Lord tell him?
18. What bargain does the Lord strike with Gawain (stanza 45)?
Move on to Book III
19. What does the Lord get on the first day of the hunt?
20. What does Gawain get on the first day at the castle?
Here the translation ends. Move to the prose translation here.
21. What does the Lord get on the second day of the hunt?
22. What does Gawain get on the second day at the castle?
23. What does the Lord get on the last day of the hunt?
24. What does Gawain get on the last day at the castle?
25. What is the relationship between the gains of the Lord and the gains of Gawain?
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