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gavmor • today at 5:44 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Gawain, the finest night alive (literally Þe most kydde knyȝtez vnder Krystes seluen) committed one indisputable, albeit minor, transgression under a regime of unsparing precision.

> ȝe han redily rehersed, bi resoun ful trwe, Alle þe covenauntz þat I yow kende...

("You have readily recapitulated, by fully accurate accounting, all covenants that I declared.")

I can't think of a more fitting name except, perhaps, the speaker of these lines: the exacting Lord Bertilak.


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bustermellotron • today at 6:16 AM

> "You have readily recapitulated, by fully accurate accounting, all covenants that I declared."

This should be in the README.