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passingbuzzards is one of the kindest people alive, and passed on a link to the full text of "Who is the Traitor at the Beginning of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?", which I read gleefully since last we spoke. I'm not linking directly because I don't want to blow up their spot, but the gist of the argument is this:

1. Folks have been saying the traitor of Troy referenced in line 3 is Aeneas basically since the first guy to bring it up was like, hey who is this? It's gotta be Aeneas, right? Sometimes they think it's Antenor, Aeneas's co-conspirator.

2. This infuriates our author, Mr. Cartlidge, and he spends most of his essay explaining how the reasoning based on in-text grammar, the reasoning based on grammar in the Gawain-poet's other works, the reasoning based on accounts of the Trojan War from the medieval period, and the thematic reasoning scholars have mustered are all spurious. In order:

( Silly scholar, hyperbole is for kids )

I'm excited by this, ngl, and I'm happy to add questions to the list, if you've got one. Hashtag blotthis learns how to do a research project live and in color, please like and subscribe