Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
"Wodwos" occurs in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (c. 1390). The Middle English word is first attested for the 1340s, in references to the "wild man" decorative artwork popular at the time, in a Latin description of an embroidery of the Great Wardrobe of Edward III, but as a surname it is found as early as 1251, of one "Robert de Wudewuse". In reference to an actual legendary or mythological creature, the term is found during the 1380s, in Wycliffe's Bible, translating (LXX δαιμόνια, Latin "pilosi" meaning "hairy") in Isaiah 13:21 The occurrences in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" date to soon after Wycliffe's Bible, to c. 1390.