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Originally Posted by pelathais
From the website alone, I would say that you should at least be ready for generous amounts of alliteration.
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http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/62.html
ANONYMOUS (1100-2010)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
[fol. 91r]
[fitt1: stanza 1 (long)]
1sițen țe sege and țe assaut watz sesed at troye
2țe bor3 brittened and brent to brondez and askez
3țe tulk țat țe trammes of tresoun țer wro3t
4watz tried for his tricherie țe trewest on erțe
5hit watz ennias țe athel and his highe kynde
6țat sițen depreced prouinces and patrounes bicome
7welne3e of al țe wele in țe west iles
8fro riche romulus to rome ricchis hym swyțe
9with gret bobbaunce țat bur3e he biges vpon fyrst
10and neuenes hit his aune nome as hit now hat
11ticius to tuskan and teldes bigynnes
12langaberde in lumbardie lyftes vp homes
13and fer ouer țe french flod felix brutus
14on mony bonkkes ful brode bretayn he settez
[bob]
15wyth wynne
[wheel]
16where werre and wrake and wonder
17bi syțez hatz wont țerinne
18and oft boțe blysse and blunder
19ful skete hatz skyfted synne
[After the siege and the assault of Troy, when the city was burned to ashes, the knight who therein wrought treason was tried for his treachery and was found to be the truest on earth. Aeneas the noble it was, and his high kindred, who vanquished great nations and became the rulers of wellnigh all the western world. Noble Romulus went to Rome with great show of strength, and built that city at the first, and gave it his own name, as it is called to this day. Ticius went into Tuscany and began to set up habitations, and Langobard made his home in Lombardy; whilst Brutus, far over the French sea by many a full broad hill-side, the fair land of Britain
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