There is a little known source hidden amongst all the Arthurian literature that has fascinated me for a long time.

It’s an octosyballic verse – and quite convoluted.

Many things intrigue me. Not least the story of it’s “discovery.”

In 1911, a crate was opened in a house in Nottingham, UK and the script was just lying there. Along with a “previously unknown” letter written by Henry VIII.

OK. Just call me green and cabbage-like!!! The timing sort of seems a little – urm – convenient (?)

Silence, once studied, throws up ALL sorts of agendas. Such as…

The underlying code of gender roles requires Silence to be silenced in nature but outspoken in nurture as the underlying rule states that women’s opinions should be diminished and men’s credited. These fixed gender roles set constraint on what people wish to become. Especially in the case of Silence, her aspiration to inherit lawfully and maintain family duty to her parents left her no choice but to cross-dress as a male for she cannot alter her biological sex. Consequently, she was brought up as a knight in order to have a brighter opportunity and achieve greater accomplishment in life, while demonstrating others that she is indeed a man.