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UK. Okay. YouTube. Welcome to episode 779 of my podcast for Learners of English.

This is in fact part two of a two-part episode.

In part one of this, which was episode 778, I talked to my dad about an old poem from the

medieval period in Britain. The poem is basically a really mysterious and

wonderfully descriptive adventure about a night from King Arthur's table at

Camelot. King Arthur was a mythical king of Britain who people told and wrote stories

about many centuries ago. We're not sure if he really existed, if the stories about him are all fictional or some

combination of those two things. Anyway, the Arthurian legends or stories of King Arthur and his knights from Camelot are full of magic

chivalry and adventure.

Chivalry, by the way, means the rules that all Honorable Knights had to follow, a kind of

of code of honour. Anyway, the poem I talked about with my dad in the last episode is about

one of Arthur's Knights who accepts a strange and dangerous

challenge. The poem is called Sir Gawain and the Green Night. If you listened to episode 778, which I think is the last episode I published,

you heard my dad describing the story of the poem, the linguistic style and how it fits into British history and the history

of the English language. If you haven't heard the previous episode, then I suggest that you

go ahead and do that.

At the end of the episode I read some verses from a modernized version of the poem by Simon Armitage. In this episode, I'd like to read some more verses from the poem, but this time

I'd like to explain some of the vocabulary and other aspects of the language while I'm doing it. So here you will be able to hear part of a

medieval poem written in Middle English which has been updated into modern English with explanations and comments from me.

Again, the poem is called Sir Gawain and the Green Night.

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