Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation

One of the earliest great stories of English literature after Beowulf, Sir Gawain is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that "[helps] liberate Gawain from academia" (Sunday Telegraph).

• Author
• Unknown, Simon Armitage

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 208

• Publisher
• W. W. Norton & Company

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780393334159

• Characters
• Morgan le Fay, Sir Gawain, Sir Bertilak de Haute Desert, King Arthur

• Settings
• Camelot

• Genres
• classics, poetry, fantasy, fiction, medieval, arthurian, school, mythology, literature

• Release date
• 2008