Simon Armitage

'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' narrates in crystalline verse the strange tale of a green knight who rudely interrupts the Round Table festivities one Yuletide, casting a pall of unease over the company and challenging one of their number to a wager.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

A poetic translation of the classic Arthurian story is an edition in alliterative language and rhyme of the epic confrontation between a young Round Table hero and a green-clad stranger who compels him to meet his destiny at the Green Chapel. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation)

Arianna M

I'd started reading other translations (the first couple pages) but none seemed entirely convincing. Then I opened this and it BLEW MY MIND. The way Armitage was able to maintain the allitterative properties of the original poetic diction is almost every line, while not straying from the original sense, is AMAZING. I truly love that this provides the original right next to the translation, too. All around a GEM.
And oh, yeah, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is definitely engrossing.

Infamous Millimetre

Cerys

Gracie Marsden

Robert Hinchcliffe

Wesley Burton

Sophie Drew

Christmas gift edition of Armitage's hugely popular translation: with revised text, and color illustrations by Clive Hicks-Jenkins

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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