In the alliterative poem The Awntyrs (“AHN-ters”) off Arthure, this knight and his riding companion Guinevere meet her mother’s ghost at Tarn Wadling. The otherworldly Inglewood Forest features in a group of “northern” romances named after this knight set mainly in Cumbria, including a poem in which he sleeps with the daughter of the Carle of Carlisle. In Le Morte d’Arthur, this knight accidentally kills a lady while trying to retrieve a white hart during the first quest of the Round Table, and his ghost later warns Arthur not to fight at Camlann. This knight fathers Gingalain, sometimes known as the “Fair Unknown,” in a poem in which he marries the loathly lady Ragnelle. This knight returns to his host the kisses, but not the protective girdle, that he receives from Lady Bertilak. For 10 points, name this nephew of Arthur who beheads the Green Knight. ■END■
ANSWER: Gawain [accept Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; accept The Weddynge of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnelle; accept Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle]
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