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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a Medieval English romance about Sir Gawain, one of King Arthur's Knights.  It was written in the late fourteenth century and is set somewhere around the six century.  The author is called the "Pearl Poet".  Nothing conclusive is known about his identity.  The first modern edition was published by J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon in 1925.
 
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a Medieval English romance about Sir Gawain, one of King Arthur's Knights.  It was written in the late fourteenth century and is set somewhere around the six century.  The author is called the "Pearl Poet".  Nothing conclusive is known about his identity.  The first modern edition was published by J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon in 1925.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight's them is the fine line between chivalry and Christian virtues.
  
 
An excellent free translation: [http://www.lib.rochester.edu/Camelot/sggk.htm].
 
An excellent free translation: [http://www.lib.rochester.edu/Camelot/sggk.htm].

Revision as of 05:32, March 9, 2007

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a Medieval English romance about Sir Gawain, one of King Arthur's Knights. It was written in the late fourteenth century and is set somewhere around the six century. The author is called the "Pearl Poet". Nothing conclusive is known about his identity. The first modern edition was published by J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon in 1925.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight's them is the fine line between chivalry and Christian virtues.

An excellent free translation: [1].