Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

by The Pearl Poet

Overview

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an epic Middle English poem written in the 14th century and set in Arthurian England. It tells the story of the Green Knight, a huge green man who interrupts the yuletide festivities at Camelot and makes this challenge to King Arthur and his knights: Strike me with my axe and receive a blow in kind one year from today. Sir Gawain accepts the challenge and beheads the Green Knight. But what will happen to Sir Gawain in one year?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781974996100
Publisher:	Dreamscape Media
Publication date:	01/31/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	398
File size:	249 KB
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

The "Pearl Poet", or the "Gawain Poet", is the name given to the author of Pearl, an alliterative poem written in 14th-century Middle English. Its author appears also to have written the poems Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, and Cleanness; some scholars suggest the author may also have composed Saint Erkenwald. Save for the latter (found in BL-MS Harley 2250), all these works are known from a single surviving manuscript, the British Library holding Cotton Nero A.x. This body of work includes some of the greatest poetry written in Middle English.