Beginning of the ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ in both Audio and text versions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Si\u015fen \u015fe sege and \u015fe assaut watz sesed at troye\n\u015ee bor3 brittened and brent to brondez and askez\n\u015ee tulk \u015fat \u015fe trammes of tresoun \u015fer wro3t\nQatz tried for his tricherie \u015fe trewest on er\u015fe\nHit watz ennias \u015fe athel and his highe kynde\n\u015eat si\u015fen depreced prouinces and patrounes bicome\nWelne3e of al \u015fe wele in \u015fe west iles\nFro riche romulus to rome ricchis hym swy\u015fe\nWith gret bobbaunce \u015fat bur3e he biges vpon fyrst\nAnd neuenes hit his aune nome as hit now hat\nTicius to tuskan and teldes bigynnes\nLangaberde in lumbardie lyftes vp homes\nAnd fer ouer \u015fe french flod felix brutus\nOn mony bonkkes ful brode bretayn he settez\nWyth wynne\nWhere werre and wrake and wonder\nBi sy\u015fez hatz wont \u015ferinne\nAnd oft bo\u015fe blysse and blunder\nFul skete hatz skyfted synne<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\nModern English<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The siege and assault having ceased at Troy\nas its blazing battlements blackened to ash,\nthe man who had planned and plotted that treason\nhad trial enough for the truest traitor!\nThen Aeneas the prince and his honored line\nplundered provinces and held in their power\nnearly all the wealth of the western isles.\nThus Romulus swiftly arriving at Rome\nsets up that city and in swelling pride\ngives it his name, the name it now bears;\nand in Tuscany Tirius raises up towns,\nand in Lombardy Langoberde settles the land,\nand far past the French coast Felix Brutus\nfounds Britain on broad hills, and so bright hopes\nbegin,\nwhere wonders, wars, misfortune\nand troubled times have been,\nwhere bliss and blind confusion\nhave come and gone again.<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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