And last, by way of introduction ... here’s a link to an article I wrote a few years ago for a blog, which talks about one of the classes I like to teach: Tolkien’s Medieval English Sources. It’s about The Lord of the Rings, the Gawain-Poet, Shakespeare, these weird medieval creatures called “woodwoses,” and lots of other connections:
https://apilgriminnarnia.com/2018/02/14/wood-woses-tolkiens-wild-men-and-the-green-knight-by-ethan-campbell/
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