243:. He further claimed the location of the 'Green Chapel', which the knight Sir Gawain is taken to near the end of the tale, as being near ("two myle henne" v1078) to the old manor house at Swythamley Park at the bottom of a valley ("bothm of the brem valay" v2145) on a hillside ("loke a littel on the launde, on thi lyfte honde" v2147) in a large fissure ("an olde caue,/or a creuisse of an olde cragge" v2182–83). His work on the
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and its story-locations also produced many essays on the relevant dialect and distinctive landscape topography of the moorlands of North
Staffordshire, and scholars now accept that the Staffordshire Moorlands are both the linguistic and the topographic location of many scenes, even if the exact
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regime, Kurt
Ehrenberg decided it was best for his family to leave Germany. His eldest daughter married and emigrated to the United States. Rudolf and his younger sister, Lena, were sent to live with their uncle, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist
229:, a topic that had interested him since his time in north Staffordshire a quarter of a century earlier, when he wrote the newspaper article "Sir Gawain in Staffordshire: A Detective Essay in Literary Geography" that appeared in
206:(1984). He contributed greatly to the university's and to Canberra's cultural life, such as by helping launch the National Word Festival, and generously tutoring students. He was a regular reviewer for the
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for ten years and hosted a talkback radio session on ABC 666. He loved books and reading, and "donated signed book collections both to the ANU Library and
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location of the Green Chapel itself remains contentious (the leading rival is near Wetton Mill, some eight miles SE). Most of his essays on the topic are collected in his
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252:(University of Leeds, 1984), but the book was later supplemented by the separate essay "Holes and Caves in the Gawain Country" (1988). A summary of his work in
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He had two children (Naomi and Oliver) with his first wife in the United
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for "service to
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