Description
Book SynopsisThe 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 ContentsAcknowledgements
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
