Hello and welcome to this very special episode of Chronicles where today we're going to be talking all about Sir Gawain and the Green

Knight. And I'm here joined by a great passionate medievalist and chairman of the Pen Dragon Foundation,

Nathan Hood. Nathan, thank you for coming in. Oh, it's an absolute pleasure. I mean,

I've been a long time watcher and viewer of yours, Luca, and I love what you're doing

in terms of celebrating culture and then to talk about Sigurwin in the Green Night.

I mean, that's just a dream come true.

So I'm looking forward to this discussion.

I've long been interesting.

Your takes on Tolkien and the Arthurian legends.

And so, no, it's wonderful to have you in to talk about such a classic piece of literature,

one that I think really has a special place in the canon of Arthurian legends,

but also obviously in the story of England itself, right?

It's a very prominent work, and we'll obviously talk all about

the actual story as we go further down, but why don't we begin by just setting the scene

and the historical background and the time that this sort of, this text was coming from.

So obviously we're dealing with a story that seems to have, well, first thing to say, we

only have one manuscript.

Right.

Right.

We only have this now because one manuscript managed to survive down the ages.

I remember the first chronicle I covered on Beowulf where I recounted the fact that we only

have that because it was saved from a fire in the 1700s.

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