The Green Man
The Green Man
2007-01-01 17:10:48
On the World History Forum, one of the members posted the story of Jack
O'Legs, a mythical figure from Hertfordshire, who undertakes a number of
adventures similar in some way to the adventures of Robin Hood. Their
deaths are identical. Both shoot an arrow, and are buried where the
arrow falls. I would imagine that many of these stories are rooted in
the myths of the 'Green Man', whose likeness is found in carved bosses
located in numerous churches and cathedrals. 'Green Man' stories in
their many forms would have been well-known to all in the fifteenth
century: peasant and nobility alike.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_man
http://myths.e2bn.net/mythsandlegends/story37-the-giant-jack-olegs.html
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/deathrh.htm
/*Sir Gawain and the Green Knight*/ synopsis
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-173,pageNum-5.html
O'Legs, a mythical figure from Hertfordshire, who undertakes a number of
adventures similar in some way to the adventures of Robin Hood. Their
deaths are identical. Both shoot an arrow, and are buried where the
arrow falls. I would imagine that many of these stories are rooted in
the myths of the 'Green Man', whose likeness is found in carved bosses
located in numerous churches and cathedrals. 'Green Man' stories in
their many forms would have been well-known to all in the fifteenth
century: peasant and nobility alike.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_man
http://myths.e2bn.net/mythsandlegends/story37-the-giant-jack-olegs.html
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/deathrh.htm
/*Sir Gawain and the Green Knight*/ synopsis
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-173,pageNum-5.html
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