Forgotten Ground Regained
Michael Smith
Website: Mythical Britain
Blog: Sir Gawain's World
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Michael Smith is a British author, translator, printmaker and performer. He holds a BA honors degree in History, and a MA in Medieval Literatures and Languages from the University of York and is a Ph.D. student there in English and Creataive Practice. He has published translations of three Middle English poems in alliterative verse: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, King Arthur's Death: The Alliterative Morte Arthur, and The Romance of William and the Werewolf.
He has also published a series of alliterative descriptions of English historical sites on his blog, Sir Gawain's world, in the persona of Sir Gawain, riding his famed charger Gringolet. These can be found here:
- Duffus Castle
- Denbigh Castle
- Castle Camps
- To Dacre and Its Dark Four Bears
- In Search of King Arthur in Sand-Swept Pennard
- King Arthur Comes Alive with All His Knghts
- Brenton on Dartmoor on Foot and on High
- A trip to Painscastle with Sir Gawain
- The Viking Stones at Gosforth
- Sir Gawain and Gringolet go to St Neot in Cornwall
- Sir Gawain goes to Bygrave, an ancient settlement in aged fields
- King Arthur’s Hall; all roofless and wind-blown
- Fettiplace lies by Lambourn’s levels
- A new translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight!
- Into Laugharne in search of whispers
- Fulk Nerra – the Butcher of Anjou
- Swinside: Stone Sentinels of Past Centuries
- The Cittie beneath the Ocean sits and sleeps
- Iconography at Ickleton illuminates the passing of the hours
- In Devon banks down darkest lanes, bench ends beguiling
- Castell Dinas Emrys – Ambrosius reborn
- Lord Bardolph of Agincourt at Dennington
- At the home of the joggled lintel: Conisborough Castle revisited
- The Battle of Maldon, 991: mirthless, men-less, and mudbound
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