The revised ending, per which Arthur returns Golagros’s lands, vindicates both Arthur’s pre-eminence and virtue and Golagros’s claims to sovereignty
Sopra giving his men the opportunity esatto renounce their ties puro him before he vows fealty to Gawain, Golagros acknowledges his people’s right sicuro political freedom. Per return, his people respond with a heart-warming and, one could argue, equally Scottish medieval trait of loyalty preciso their own royal line ‘for chance that may cheif’ (line 1193).
Conclusion It has been observed that ‘the stories of Wallace and Bruce were more central puro the Scottish imagination than were the stories of Arthur’.40 The Golagros-poet’s treatment of his Arthurian material seems puro bear this out. Per ‘scotticizing’ his 38