The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle

"Lady, I will be a true and loyal husband." Gawain and the loathly lady in W. H. Margetson's illustration for Maud Isabel Ebbutt's Hero-Myths and Legends of the British Race (1910)

The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle (The Weddynge of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnell) is a 15th-century English poem, one of several versions of the "loathly lady" story popular during the Middle Ages. An earlier version of the story appears as "The Wyfe of Bayths Tale" ("The Wife of Bath's Tale") in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales,[1] and the later ballad "The Marriage of Sir Gawain" is essentially a retelling, though its relationship to the medieval poem is uncertain.[2] The author's name is not known, but similarities to Le Morte d'Arthur have led to the suggestion that the poem may have been written by Sir Thomas Malory.[3][4]

  1. ^ The Canterbury Tales, pp. 258–292.
  2. ^ Price, p. 310.
  3. ^ Field, P. J. C. (2004–2011). "Malory, Sir Thomas (1415x18–1471)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/17899. Retrieved 8 March 2015. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ Norris, Ralph (2009). "Sir Thomas Malory and the Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell Reconsidered". Arthuriana. 19 (2): 82–102. doi:10.1353/art.0.0051. S2CID 162024940.

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