"Gawain and the Green Knight" represents a kind of poem we call Medieval Romance. Use your knowledge of all the other poetry we've read to show how it is that this tale of King Arthur's court from the fourteenth century represents the extension of the heroic or epic literary mode into Christian Medieval Europe (the blending of Christian, Celtic, and Germanic cultures) and is at the same time a bridge between (or combination of) the epic and lyric traditions in European poetry. In other words, what features and attitudes of both epic and lyric poetry does "Gawain and the Green Knight" contain?