Jasper Britton

Sir Gawain And The Green Knight

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Release date January, 2008

Tracklist

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Chapter 1: When siege and assault had ceased…
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This fair Britain, founded by that famous knight…
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The king lay at Camelot one Christmas tide…
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With New Year not yet a day old…
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Now, Arthur would not eat until all were served…
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So he stands, the stern young king…
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I’ll say nothing more about the meal…
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Green, were both the garments and the grinning man…
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Garbed in green was the gallant rider…
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And yet he had no helm or hauberk either…
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Stunned, the court stared…
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From the dais Arthur watched…
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‘Fight? Have no worry.’
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If he astonished them first…
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‘By heaven,’ said Arthur…
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‘Grant me grace,’ said Gawain…
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The king commanded the courtly knight to stand.
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‘By God,’ said the Green Knight…
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The Green Knight stood…
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For he held the head up high in both his hands…
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And yet high-born Arthur was heavy at heart…
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Chapter 2: Arthur was granted his gift of adventure…
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So comes the summer season…
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Yet he lingers till All Hallows…
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He dwelt there that day…
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Hasped in his armour…
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Last they showed him his bright shield…
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First he was found faultless…
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He struck his steed with his spurs…
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Gallant Sir Gawain then in God’s name rode out…
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Forsaken he rode far distant from his friends…
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More merry in the morning…
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Scarcely three times had he signed the holy cross…
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So he stayed his steed…
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‘Sir,’ said Gawain…
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Gawain gazed at the good man…
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A chair by the chimney hearth…
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Then enquiries came, but questions carefully put…
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The Knight, done with his dining…
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When Gawain gazed upon that gracious lady…
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On that morning when men remember the birth of our dear lord…
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That day they made much merriment…
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With courteous questions he asked Gawain…
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Gladness filled Gawain then…
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‘Oh, one thing more’ the master said…
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Chapter 3: Long before first light…
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At the burst of the baying the forest trembled.
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While the lord sought sport among the forest leaves…
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‘Good morning, good knight,’ she murmured to Gawain…
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‘Good Lord!’ said Gawain…
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‘Madam,’ said that debonair man…
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She bids him good day…
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Still at his sport, the lord spurred his steed…
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The head, too, and the neck…
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The lord commands his men to meet…
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Afterwards in a chamber, by the chimney…
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Scenting quarry by a marshy covert…
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Pressing close to shoot hunters…
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Coming to the curtain, she coyly peeped in…
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I would learn from you, my lord,’…
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‘Good faith,’ said Gawain then…
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Roused from rest, he rose…
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At last came the lord…
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Then in triumph many bugles blew the prise…
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Merry, the lord with loud voice and laughter…
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They laid out tables on top of trestles then…
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They drank more amid laughter…
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After Mass, he and his men down a morsel…
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To hear the hounds’ voice was truly heart’s delight…
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Out of the deepest darkness of drowsy dreams…
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For that precious princess…
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‘Such words,’ said the woman…
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She offered him a rich ring…
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‘Do you refuse this silk now,’…
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With a word of farewell she went on her way…
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So let him linger there in the lea of their love…
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With night setting in…
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With mirth and minstrelsy…
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Courteous he kissed them…
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Chapter 4: So New Year draws near…
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He fastened on the finest pieces himself…
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Then Gringolet was groomed for him…
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The drawbridge was lowered…
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I have brought you this far…
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‘Good Sir Gawain, let that grim man well alone…’
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‘Mary!’ said the servant…
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He put spurs to Gringolet…
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‘By God, what a desolate spot,’…
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Gawain called out then, loud and clear…
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‘Gawain,’ said the Green Knight then…
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The gallant in green prepared himself…
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‘So have at it, by your faith…’
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Up, up swiftly went the axe…
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The knight stood back and rested on his axe…
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‘For that braided belt you wear…’
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But the other lord laughed and then said lightly…
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‘Truly, no,’ Gawain said…
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‘But the belt,’ said Gawain…
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‘In this green guise she sent me…’
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Our worthy knight went by wild ways…
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‘Behold, sir,’ he said…
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