This poem was written about 1400 and provides an insight into the medieval mind. It contains three accounts of hunts and one can appreciate the excitement of the participants. At the end of the hunt the deer/boar is butchered and one feels the importance of meat to the people in those days; animals were slaughtered at the beginning of winter and the meat salted. For most of the year one would be lucky to be eating salted meat. A fresh juicy steak with plenty of fat would have been really mouth watering.

The poem also contains accounts of the knight being robed and having his armour put on. One can appreciate how important a knight's appearance was. The clothes and armour would represent more money than an ordinary person could earn in a lifetime.

A marvellous poem.

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