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. (See his blog post William of Palerne and the Alliterative Revival for more information about these translations.)
His work includes the article, The Modern Landscape of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in Issue 5 of Forgotten Ground Regained. 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
- “Cows calm by the chambered cairn…”
- 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
- Behold the shifting, shingled shore …
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