"The Boy Knight" (Part of the Green Knight Series)
A Time of Chivalry:
“The Boy Knight”
(And Night over Palestine)
The Green Knight
And The First Crusades
(AD 1096)
Preface and Background: The Romans had left Britain about 426 AD, when the Picts and Scots invaded from the North. The Saxons being invite over to assist in expelling them gradually took possession of the country. This lasts to about 827 AD, when the Kingdom of England is formed by Egbert. Then came the Time of Chivalry, as it was recorded in history, existed between the 8th and 15th Centuries: the First Crusade starts in AD 1096, the Green Knight was there, so was the boy soldier (17-years old), the Feudal System was still in place, and would be for one-hundred more years. There was a code to this form of chivalry; each knight swore to be true to their trusts as the Champions of God, ladies. In actuality, the Green Knight received his Kinghood by King Canute in AD 1020 (the time of the Dane, Saxon, and Norman), In Bavaria (what is now West Germany), 1071 AD, Henry IV made Guelf (Duke), had a son who would fight in the First Crusades, He would be made Duke, or Guelf II, in 1101 AD, seven years after he would meet the Green Knight, the boy at that time would be twenty-four years old. Prior to this he attended the famous Cambridge University founded in 630 AD. There would be a perhaps a reason why the Green Knight did not kill the boy, as you will see in the story shortly, and since the story does not tell you why, I will now. It is because the Green Knight met Otho the Great of Germany (back in 915 AD), and had high respect for him, other than that, I do not know why myself.
There would be all together Eight Crusades, between 1096 AD to 1270 AD: 74-years of war!
Jerusalem was taken by Titus 70 AD, and razed to the ground, and more than one million Jews perished. It was taken by the Saracens, 637 AD and by the
Crusaders in 1099 and 70,000 infidels slain.
It was taken by Saladin of
Egypt 1187 AD and by the
Turks in 15116 AD.
The Mosque (known as The Dome of the Rock)
Was built by Omar, 637 AD,
1
Night over Palestine
Coeur de Lion
To the Crusades, in Palestine, Peter the Hermit
preached to 300,000 men, blessed by Uban II:
commanded by God and Godfrey, king—to go,
to take the land, and all of Jerusalem (1096 AD).
The Green Knight:
‘Do not squander, a soldiers breathe, King Richard the
Lion Heart is one of the Best, only honest light,
shines bright, on a champions face—Oh, yes, slander
tie your tongue, that I remain unassuming to your idiom!
Alas, enough, enough—you’ve had too much wine
maid, king, I do not care—whomever, nor for a riddle,
you are like Gawain, of Arthur’s time, a rhyme.’
(Narrator) The Green Knight now rested a moment under the Palestine Moon, two strangers seemingly lost from their camps, both Knights; a bonfire going, as if to welcome whomever: the Green Knight was hoping for a battle, he
still had not gotten over Florencia of Camelot, thus perhaps
displacing his anger for the loss, whom he still
blamed on Gawain now long dead.
The Green Knight:
‘Aye, more—! Young pine, young wine, more ‘T is strange!
I’ve had no love affair since Florencia! Perchance, I’ve seen
too much infidelity, hearts fall in heathendom.
Too, too much, way too much, for a life time!
Florencia being the exception, a woman’s tongue is
more dangerous than a python; and these women that
follow the camps, exchange their bodies for love…,
it’s all that can be for a wandering sword! No more!
So you boast to be a Knight, with a childless youth!’
(The Green Knight stops, shilly-shally, looks at the youth.)
“Soldas,” says the youth, and he sang a song:
Song of the Boy Knight ♫
‘ Sing…a song as the old moon wanes
To win, to win, the first born kiss
A kiss, a kiss, from a young princess
Find thee in a hidden place!
But who am I to tell thee…in the
Desert sands of Palestine!’
No: 1896
The Boy Knight:
‘You torment in the blood you pour—perhaps peacefulness
consumes you more, I have forgotten the darkness
of night, all loneliness parishes with love, for a wife…
sets above my soul, and soon I will be back with her…
in Rhineland—my home (where Saxtons still roam)!’
The Green Knight:
‘Yes, oh yes young prince, or piper, silence is monarch
in my heart, it holds the dead and me…too many aisles
in my mind to trod, I am dead, but I am not mute.
Yes, prince or pauper, or knight—whom ever you be,
mortals question of my name. Thou know’st not,
but here side by side you and me, a moment fads…
that will never be again, for evil is of its own—!’
Morning of the Next Day
And for what, and whither, in the morn, the boy knight
was gone, and the Green Knight looked about—the fire
heap was cold, the sphere was showing the sun.
.
Notes: ‘The Boy Knight,’ was written on 7-3-2007, revised and edited on 7-7-2007, and then put into the manuscript, ‘Sir Gawain, and the Ghost of the Green Knight.’
“The Boy Knight”
(And Night over Palestine)
The Green Knight
And The First Crusades
(AD 1096)
Preface and Background: The Romans had left Britain about 426 AD, when the Picts and Scots invaded from the North. The Saxons being invite over to assist in expelling them gradually took possession of the country. This lasts to about 827 AD, when the Kingdom of England is formed by Egbert. Then came the Time of Chivalry, as it was recorded in history, existed between the 8th and 15th Centuries: the First Crusade starts in AD 1096, the Green Knight was there, so was the boy soldier (17-years old), the Feudal System was still in place, and would be for one-hundred more years. There was a code to this form of chivalry; each knight swore to be true to their trusts as the Champions of God, ladies. In actuality, the Green Knight received his Kinghood by King Canute in AD 1020 (the time of the Dane, Saxon, and Norman), In Bavaria (what is now West Germany), 1071 AD, Henry IV made Guelf (Duke), had a son who would fight in the First Crusades, He would be made Duke, or Guelf II, in 1101 AD, seven years after he would meet the Green Knight, the boy at that time would be twenty-four years old. Prior to this he attended the famous Cambridge University founded in 630 AD. There would be a perhaps a reason why the Green Knight did not kill the boy, as you will see in the story shortly, and since the story does not tell you why, I will now. It is because the Green Knight met Otho the Great of Germany (back in 915 AD), and had high respect for him, other than that, I do not know why myself.
There would be all together Eight Crusades, between 1096 AD to 1270 AD: 74-years of war!
Jerusalem was taken by Titus 70 AD, and razed to the ground, and more than one million Jews perished. It was taken by the Saracens, 637 AD and by the
Crusaders in 1099 and 70,000 infidels slain.
It was taken by Saladin of
Egypt 1187 AD and by the
Turks in 15116 AD.
The Mosque (known as The Dome of the Rock)
Was built by Omar, 637 AD,
1
Night over Palestine
Coeur de Lion
To the Crusades, in Palestine, Peter the Hermit
preached to 300,000 men, blessed by Uban II:
commanded by God and Godfrey, king—to go,
to take the land, and all of Jerusalem (1096 AD).
The Green Knight:
‘Do not squander, a soldiers breathe, King Richard the
Lion Heart is one of the Best, only honest light,
shines bright, on a champions face—Oh, yes, slander
tie your tongue, that I remain unassuming to your idiom!
Alas, enough, enough—you’ve had too much wine
maid, king, I do not care—whomever, nor for a riddle,
you are like Gawain, of Arthur’s time, a rhyme.’
(Narrator) The Green Knight now rested a moment under the Palestine Moon, two strangers seemingly lost from their camps, both Knights; a bonfire going, as if to welcome whomever: the Green Knight was hoping for a battle, he
still had not gotten over Florencia of Camelot, thus perhaps
displacing his anger for the loss, whom he still
blamed on Gawain now long dead.
The Green Knight:
‘Aye, more—! Young pine, young wine, more ‘T is strange!
I’ve had no love affair since Florencia! Perchance, I’ve seen
too much infidelity, hearts fall in heathendom.
Too, too much, way too much, for a life time!
Florencia being the exception, a woman’s tongue is
more dangerous than a python; and these women that
follow the camps, exchange their bodies for love…,
it’s all that can be for a wandering sword! No more!
So you boast to be a Knight, with a childless youth!’
(The Green Knight stops, shilly-shally, looks at the youth.)
“Soldas,” says the youth, and he sang a song:
Song of the Boy Knight ♫
‘ Sing…a song as the old moon wanes
To win, to win, the first born kiss
A kiss, a kiss, from a young princess
Find thee in a hidden place!
But who am I to tell thee…in the
Desert sands of Palestine!’
No: 1896
The Boy Knight:
‘You torment in the blood you pour—perhaps peacefulness
consumes you more, I have forgotten the darkness
of night, all loneliness parishes with love, for a wife…
sets above my soul, and soon I will be back with her…
in Rhineland—my home (where Saxtons still roam)!’
The Green Knight:
‘Yes, oh yes young prince, or piper, silence is monarch
in my heart, it holds the dead and me…too many aisles
in my mind to trod, I am dead, but I am not mute.
Yes, prince or pauper, or knight—whom ever you be,
mortals question of my name. Thou know’st not,
but here side by side you and me, a moment fads…
that will never be again, for evil is of its own—!’
Morning of the Next Day
And for what, and whither, in the morn, the boy knight
was gone, and the Green Knight looked about—the fire
heap was cold, the sphere was showing the sun.
.
Notes: ‘The Boy Knight,’ was written on 7-3-2007, revised and edited on 7-7-2007, and then put into the manuscript, ‘Sir Gawain, and the Ghost of the Green Knight.’
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