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The Marriage of Sir Gawain
"The Marriage of Sir Gawain" is an English Arthurian ballad, collected as Child Ballad 31.〔Francis James Child, ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads'' ,("The Marriage of Sir Gawain" ).〕 Found in the Percy Folio, it is a fragmented account of the story of Sir Gawain and the loathly lady, which has been preserved in fuller form in the medieval poem ''The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle''.〔Francis James Child, ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads'', v. 1, p. 288, Dover Publications, New York 1965〕 The loathly lady episode itself dates at least back to Geoffrey Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Tale" from ''The Canterbury Tales''.〔Francis James Child, ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads'', v. 1, p. 291, Dover Publications, New York, 1965〕 Unlike most of the Child Ballads, but like the Arthurian "King Arthur and King Cornwall" and "The Boy and the Mantle", "The Marriage of Sir Gawain" is not a folk ballad but a song for professional minstrels.〔Francis James Child, ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads'', v. 1, p. 256, Dover Publications, New York 1965〕
==Synopsis==
King Arthur is asked for a favor by a young lady in distress. Her love has been taken away by a surly, selfish and rough knight who is in reality blinded by magic, pride and arrogance because of a charm that was cast upon his family by a wicked witch. In order to break this spell, this churlish knight must discover, by the mouth of the king, "what thing it is all women most desire?" or the king will lose his life. After numerous encounters with various villagers, he comes up with a list of insufficient answers. A hideous woman from the forest accosts him and proposes a bargain. If King Arthur promises the old hag a young, fair, and courtly knight, she will give him the answer. To save Arthur, Gawain sacrifices himself to marry her, and she tells him that the answer is that "women wish to have their own will". Arthur is saved and discovers that both the churlish knight and the old hag are related and suffer from the same spell. Gawain marries the loathly lady. On their wedding night, she becomes beautiful and tells him to choose whether he would have her beautiful but false, or ugly but true. He tells her she can choose for herself, giving her ''her'' will, which breaks the spell of ugliness that binds her. The entire court is amazed by her beauty. They live happily ever after.
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