description: Original text along with facing-page translation. The fourteenth-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the greatest classics of English literature, but one of the least accessible to most twentieth-century readers. This new edition of the poem offers the original text together with a facing-page translation; editor James Winny provides a non-alliterative and sensitively literal rendering in modern English, as well as explanatory and textual notes, a further note on some words that present particular difficulties, and two contemporary stories, The Feast of Bricriu and the Knight of the Sword, which provide insight on the poem. "This is the best translation of Sir Gawain. It... makes the remote world of Arthurian romance immediate to the reader." --Gordon Teskey, Cornell University
language: English
title: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
titlecomplete: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Broadview Edition)
characters: King Arthur, Sir Gawain, Sir Bertilak de Haute Desert, The Green Knight, Morgan le Fay
genres: Fiction, Arthurian, Medieval, Classics, Read For School, Mythology, Fantasy, Literature, Poetry, School
ratings_count: 67706
places: Camelot
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
publisher: Broadview Press