Inglewood Forest in Two Middle English Romances

摘要

“The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Watheleyne” and “The Weddyng of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnall” both take place in a historical royal forest, Inglewood. The term ‘felle’ in “The Awntyrs” is re-intepreted here to refer to a forest that has been coppiced, a woodland-pasture. Both poems describe romance forest that was also recognizable to the poems’ original audiences as managed woodland.