Editing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (section)

===Gawain's journey===
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[[File:Lud's Church 2016-06-05.jpg|160x240px|thumb|Lud's Church.]]
Several scholars have attempted to find a real-world correspondence for Gawain's journey to the Green Chapel. The [[Anglesey]] islands, for example, are mentioned in the poem. They exist today as a single island off the coast of Wales.<ref>{{cite web|author1-link=Michael W. Twomey |last1=Twomey |first1=Michael |title=Anglesey and North Wales |url=https://sites.google.com/site/travelswithsirgawain/home/anglesey-and-north-wales?authuser=0 |website=Travels With Sir Gawain |access-date=10 May 2021}}</ref> In line 700, Gawain is said to pass the {{lang|enm|holy hede}} (Holy Head), believed by many scholars to be either [[Holywell, Flintshire|Holywell]] or the [[Cistercians|Cistercian]] abbey of Poulton in [[Pulford]]. Holywell is associated with the beheading of [[Winefride|Saint Winifred]]. As the story goes, Winifred was a virgin who was beheaded by a local leader after she refused his sexual advances. Her uncle, another saint, put her head back in place and healed the wound, leaving only a white scar. The parallels between this story and Gawain's make this area a likely candidate for the journey.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Twomey |first1=Michael |title=The Holy Head and the Wirral |url=https://sites.google.com/site/travelswithsirgawain/home/the-holy-head-and-the-wirral?authuser=0 |website=Travels With Sir Gawain |access-date=10 May 2021}}</ref>

Gawain's trek leads him directly into the centre of the Pearl Poet's dialect region, where the candidates for the locations of the Castle at Hautdesert and the Green Chapel stand. Hautdesert is thought to be in the area of Swythamley in northwest Midland, as it lies in the writer's dialect area and matches the topographical features described in the poem. The area is also known to have housed all of the animals hunted by Bertilak (deer, boar, fox) in the 14th century.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Twomey |first1=Michael |title=Hautdesert |url=https://sites.google.com/site/travelswithsirgawain/home/hautdesert?authuser=0 |website=Travels With Sir Gawain |access-date=10 May 2021}}</ref> The Green Chapel is thought to be in either [[Lud's Church]] or [[Wetton Mill]], as these areas closely match the descriptions given by the author.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Twomey |first1=Michael |title=The Green Chapel |url=https://sites.google.com/site/travelswithsirgawain/home/the-green-chapel?authuser=0 |website=Travels With Sir Gawain |access-date=10 May 2021}}</ref> [[Ralph Elliott]] located the chapel {{lang|enm|two myle henne}}<ref>''Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'', line&nbsp;1078.</ref> (two miles hence) from the old manor house at Swythamley Park at {{lang|enm|þe boþem of þe brem valay}}<ref>''Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'', line&nbsp;2145.</ref> (the bottom of a valley) on a hillside (''loke a littel on þe launde on þi lyfte honde''<ref>''Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'', line&nbsp;2147.</ref>) in an enormous fissure ({{lang|enm|an olde caue / or a creuisse of an olde cragge}}).<ref>''Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'', lines&nbsp;2182–3.</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Elliott |first1=Ralph Warren Victor |title=Chaucer's landscapes : and other essays: a selection of essays, speeches and reviews written between 1951 and 2008, with a memoir |date=2010 |publisher=Australian Scholarly Pub |location=North Melbourne, Vic |isbn=9781921509452 |page=300 |chapter=Searching for the Green Chapel}}</ref> Several have tried to replicate this expedition and others such as [[Michael W. Twomey]] have created a virtual tour of Gawain's journey entitled 'Travels with Sir Gawain'<ref>{{cite web |last1=Twomey |first1=Michael |title=Travels With Sir Gawain |url=https://sites.google.com/site/travelswithsirgawain/ |access-date=7 May 2021}}</ref> that include photographs of landscapes mentioned and particular views mentioned in the text.<ref>{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1353/art.2013.0005| issn = 1934-1539| volume = 23| issue = 1| pages = 52–65| last = Rudd| first = Gillian| title = 'The Wilderness of Wirral' in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight| journal = Arthuriana| date = 2013| s2cid = 162694555| url = https://muse.jhu.edu/article/505068}}</ref>