Celtic Culture In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight

The literary poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”, originated in Britain fourteenth century, contain a number of Celtic culture and religion in the story as well as the way of its transmission. It have been passed many years as Celtic Mythology of the legend of Gawain. “The Celts ware a non-Germanic, Iron Age folk that had migrated throughout Europe between the fifth and third centuries B.C.E., settling in the British Isles before the time of Christ.” (Gloria 254) Celtic people orally transmitted the story because they prefer to have own language and certain expressions such as sculptures or artifacts rather than the Celtic letters. The unique imagination and sophisticated communication skills of bard strongly influenced modern literature. They created a number of animal-shaped artifacts and stone sculpture as one of their communication as well as historical tradition.
“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight has long been admired for its pervasive and sophisticated blending of literary genres and traditions, especially its almost seamless incorporation of Christian doctrine into a hybrid of Celtic myth and Arthurian romance” (Cox 378). …show more content…
In addition, these tradition was carefully protected for a long time with their ethnical identity until the legend became independent story. Another important Celt’s identity that significantly depicted in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" are Christian chivalry and their world view. The whole story which orally transmitted was full of their religious features and mythology. They gave a lot of high praise on supernatural beings, wild creatures, as well as hero worship as a religious face. They have been successfully avoided invasion from Roman tribes and protect most of their identity even after Roman culture took control of the nation because their mysterious and spiritual features terrifies outsider to attack