across a range of tones and subjects, but my favourite passages have always been the evocations of bleak northern weather and terrain that permeate the poem: "The werbelande wynde wapped fro the hyghe/And drof uch dale ful of dryftes ful grete" (adapted by [Simon] Armitage as "then a whip-cracking wind comes whistling between hills/Driving snow into deepening drifts in the dales").from Charles Bainbridge: The Guardian: theblogbooks: A knight to remember
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