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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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Start date: March 1, 2018

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Dec 30, 2018 Antonomasia rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: christmas, poetry, medieval-works, 2018, 14th-century, northern-england, epic-poems-and-novels-in-verse

Simon Armitage translation (Faber & Faber / Norton), and the Oxford edition's notes

I'd half forgotten about Gawain and the Green Knight - and I'd definitely forgotten it was set over Christmas and New Year, until I heard this mid-December episode of In Our Time. As I thought during the programme how bored I now was of Simon Armitage - he's become a very regular fixture on BBC arts shows in the last few years - I didn't expect to end up reading his translation of Gawain. But I looked at a couple ...more

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Mar 22, 2018 Nancy rated it liked it · review of another edition

This is an ancient poem, that has been rewritten, in order for the reader to be able to more understand it. It is about a knight in King Arthur's Court. A Green Giant comes into the court, and asks the court if their is one knight who will take one blow at him, and in return that knight is to come and find him, and let him take a blow at the Knight.

The reader learns a lot about the armor that the knights wore. There are lovely descriptions of the beauty of nature.

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