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Bertilak’s Green Vision: Land Stewardship in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Arthuriana
- Scriptorium Press
- Volume 26, Number 4, Winter 2016
- pp. 114-129
- 10.1353/art.2016.0052
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
Abstract:
By underscoring the frivolity of King Arthur’s court and the indifference to nature represented in the poem’s first two Fitts, the Pearl-poet goes on to establish the Green Knight as an alternative ideal for his aristocratic readers and a model of environmental guardianship.
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