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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 contemporary readers. This edition offers the original text together with a facing-page translation. James Winny provides a non-alliterative and sensitively literal rendering in modern English.

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“This is the best translation of Sir Gawain. It has the taughtness and vigor of the original, and it shares that Gawain-poet’s almost miraculous ability to make the remote world of Arthurian romance immediate to the reader.” — Gordon Teskey, Harvard University



Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

  • Fitt 1
  • Fitt 2
  • Fitt 3
  • Fitt 4

Notes on the Text
A Note on some Words

Appendix A: from Fled Bricend / Bricriu’s Feast

Appendix B: Le Chevalier a L’Epee / The Knight of the Sword

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Facing Page

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      Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/05/1995
      ISBN13: 9780921149927, 978-0921149927
      ISBN10: 0921149921

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 contemporary readers. This edition offers the original text together with a facing-page translation. James Winny provides a non-alliterative and sensitively literal rendering in modern English.

      Trade Review

      “This is the best translation of Sir Gawain. It has the taughtness and vigor of the original, and it shares that Gawain-poet’s almost miraculous ability to make the remote world of Arthurian romance immediate to the reader.” — Gordon Teskey, Harvard University



      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements
      Introduction

      Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

      • Fitt 1
      • Fitt 2
      • Fitt 3
      • Fitt 4

      Notes on the Text
      A Note on some Words

      Appendix A: from Fled Bricend / Bricriu’s Feast

      Appendix B: Le Chevalier a L’Epee / The Knight of the Sword

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