Sir Gawain and the Three Sisters

[lnhammer]

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—1-20 December 2009

This is a fanfiction to the medieval romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight written for the Yuletide 2009 gift exchange -- a "lost" episode in the same alliterative verse stanza (to order translation conventions) as the original. (Don't worry about the prose introduction, which is there as scholarly fanservice.) I wanted to examine exactly why Gawain, who above all the other knights of the Round Table has a reputation of a womanizer, is so defensive of his sexual virtue -- the only reason that made sense was that he'd already slipped. Hard. And realized it was a Big Mistake. Thus, this.

---L.