OSR and headless horsemen
In some forgotten places, a lazy visitor might find long tables where an antiquarian had labeled and displayed shards, stones and arrowtips of a fading past. Here, extracted from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow , find these fragments of decapitation, and marvel . *** The Green Knight's Head In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - with an ax - Sir Gawain struck a 'shattering' blow, and separated the Green Knight's torso from its head. The fair head fell from the neck, struck the floor / And people spurned it as it rolled around. (translator, Brian Stone) In 14th Century English, "spurned" would mean 'struck away with the foot.' Notwithstanding all, the Green Knight grabbed the gruesome 'head by the hair,' 'pointed the face' to King Arthur's court, and the head hideously 'spoke with its mouth,' "Be prepared to perform what you promised, Gawain / Seek faithfully til you find me.../ Go to the