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June 3, 20260 citationsOpen Access

The ‘Missing Day’ and Gawain’s Mid-Holiday Departure:Sir Gawain and The Green Knight Lines 1020–3, 1046–51

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LWLawrence Warner

Key Points

  • To address the previously overlooked 'missing day' in Sir Gawain and The Green Knight and clarify Gawain's departure.
  • Revisits an earlier solution to the missing day issue in the text.
  • Proposes an emendation for lines 1046-51 to align dialogue with Gawain's actual circumstances.
  • Analyzes the implications of the corrected interpretation within the narrative.
  • Clarifies that Gawain and the host discuss his need to leave the castle during the holidays.
  • Establishes that previous interpretations mischaracterized the events of the text.
  • Demonstrates the importance of contextual accuracy in understanding narrative flow.

Abstract

Revives a previously rejected solution to the 'missing day' of Sir Gawain and The Green Knight (lines 1020-3) and proposes an emendation to lines 1046-51 so that Gawain and the host are no longer discussing something that did not happen and could not have done so (leaving King Arthur's court in the middle of the holidays) but instead the actual topic at hand, Gawain's need to depart this castle, now.

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Lawrence Warner (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1fc56bdee9eb8c0dce6ccbhttps://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjag092
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