SC - 12th Night event ideas

[Laura C Minnick]

On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 LrdRas at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 7/26/99 8:02:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> lainie at gladstone.uoregon.edu writes:
> 
> << A perfectly good Yule
>  Feast, and here comes a monster!  >>
> Actually the reference to the Green man is not a reference to a monster but 
> to pagan deities. The beheading of the green man was to show the triumph of 
> Christianity over pagan religion. 

In the earlier tales of the Green man, yes. In SGGK, no. The Green Knight
was sent by Morgan le Fey and while the author used eariler motifs (Green
Man, the beheading game, etc) the central test was one of Gawain's
Christian virtues, and took place in a chapel of all places. The poem is
seriously multi-valent but deeply Christian. It was, after all, late 14th
c. and not Anglo-Saxon.

A good deal of what happened and still happens at Yule is steeped in Pagan
traditions, but is not usually conscious of origins.

'Lainie 
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