Northern Gawain Group

Northern Gawain Group is the name given by modern scholars to a group of Arthurian romances from around the fifteenth century, set around the northwestern English region of Cumbria, and in particular Inglewood Forest. The group includes The Wedding of Gawain and Dame Ragnell, The Turk and Gawain, The Awntyrs of Arthur, and by some reckonings The Carl of Carlisle. The hero of these texts is Sir Gawain.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

References

^ Gillian Rogers, 'Folk Romance', in The Arthur of the English: Arthurian Legend in Medieval English Life and Literature, ed. by W. R. J. Barron (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1999), pp. 197–224 (p. 199).
^ Barry Windeat, 'The Fifteenth-Century Arthur', in The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend, ed. by Elizabeth Archibald and Ad Putter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 84-102 (p. 86).
^ Sean Pollack, 'Border States: Parody, Sovereignty, and Hybrid Identity in "The Carl of Carlisle"', Arthuriana, 19.2 (summer 2009), 10-26 (p. 10).
^ Lindy Brady, 'Inglewood Forest in Three Romances from the Northern Gawain Group', Leeds Medieval Studies, 1 (2021), 1–15.

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