id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5996 Celtic literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 1547 163 68 Examples of these literatures include the medieval Arthurian romances written in the French language, which drew heavily from Celtic sources, or in a modern context literature in the English language by writers of Irish, Welsh, Cornish, Manx, Scottish or Breton extraction. Revival literature in non-Celtic languages[edit] Themes from Celtic Literature within Arthurian Romances[edit] Examples of Arthurian legends with these components are Marie de France's Lanval, the tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and in Perceval, The Story of the Grail. In addition to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Lanval, Perceval, The Story of the Grail contains a combination of these two Celtic themes. According to Alice Buchanan's article: "The Irish Framework of Sir Gawin and the Green Knight," she states: the theme of Beheading texts, which occurs in Arthurian Romances, French, English, and German, from about 1180 – 1380, is derived from an Irish tradition actually existent in a MS. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5996.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5996.txt