Beheading game
A beheading game is a trope or motif of medieval romance in which the players exchange blows which could decapitate their opponent. The most famous example is in the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the earliest known form is in the Irish story of Fled Bricrenn (Bricriu's Feast).[1][2]
References
- ^ Strite, Sheri Ann (1991), "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: To Behead or Not to Behead โ That is a Question" (PDF), Philological Quarterly, University of Iowa, 70: 1โ12
- ^ Tracy, Larissa (2012), "The Real Price of the Beheading Game in SGGK and Malory", Heads Will Roll: Decapitation in the Medieval and Early Modern Imagination, BRILL, pp. 207โ232, ISBN 9789004211551
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