Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Author: Armitage, SimonBrand: W. W. Norton & CompanyEdition: A New Verse TranslationFeatures: W W Norton CompanyBinding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 208Release Date: 17-11-2008Part Number: 9780393334159Details: Product Description The classic story that inspired the film starring Dev Patel and Alicia Vikander “A medieval romance…but also an outlandish ghost story, a gripping morality tale and a weird thriller.… I couldn’t put down Simon Armitage’s compulsively readable...energetic, free-flowing, high-spirited version.” ― Edward Hirsch, New York Times Book Review One of the founding stories of English literature, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight narrates the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse who rudely interrupts Camelot’s Round Table festivities one Yuletide, casting a pall of unease over the company and challenging one of their number to a wager. The virtuous Gawain accepts and decapitates the intruder with his own axe. Gushing blood, the knight reclaims his head,