Sir Gawain Baseball T-Shirts

This design is based off of the manuscript of the famous Middle English poem Sir Gawain of the Green Knight (from the Cotton MS Nero A X manuscript). I've recreated one of the illustration by hand carving my own block print then printing and scanning it. The image depicts Sir Gawain near his final confrontation with the Green Knight.

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This design is based off of the manuscript of the famous Middle English poem Sir Gawain of the Green Knight (from the Cotton MS Nero A X manuscript). I've recreated one of the illustration by hand carving my own block print then printing and scanning it. The image depicts Sir Gawain near his final confrontation with the Green Knight.

The Green Knight Sir Gawain Arthurian Legend

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Sir Gawain Vs The Green Knight An illustration of the first encounter of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight from the Arthurian Legend.

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The Green Knight Sir Gawain

Once formal heraldry became a thing in the 12th century, the Knights of the Round Table got assigned coats of arms of their own. This one is Gawain's: Sable fretty argent, a label vert. Translated from blazonry: On a field of black and silver lattice, a green sash.

Green Knight design

He is King Arthur's nephew, son of Arthur's sister Morgause and King Lot of Orkney and Lothian. One of his brothers is the infamous Mordred. Gawain is a formidable but courteous and compassionate warrior, fiercely loyal to his king and his family. He is known as a friend to young knights, a defender of the poor and the unfortunate. In some literature, is initially close friendship with Sir Lancelot, becomes a bitter rivalry when he seeks vengeance for the death of his brothers. In this tradition, featured in Le Morte d'Arthur, Gawain's sinful ways and his unforgiving nature inadvertently lead to the fall of Arthur and the Round Table, and ultimately his own death by Lancelot's hand.

A Green Knight once vibrant and alive, now long dead and no longer green.

A Green Knight once vibrant and alive, now long dead and no longer green.

The Knights of the Round Table.

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