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A splendid new translation of the classic Arthurian tale of enchantment, adventure, and romance, presented alongside the original Middle English text.It is the height of Christmas and New Year's revelry when an enormous knight with brilliant green clothes and skin descends upon King Arthur's court. He presents a sinister challenge: he will endure a blow of the axe to his neck without offering any resistance, but whoever gives the blow must promise to take the same in exactly a year and a day's time. The young Sir Gawain quickly rises to the challenge, and the poem tells of the adventures he finds--an almost irresistible seduction, shockingly brutal hunts, and terrifyingly powerful villains--as he endeavors to fulfill his promise.Capturing the pace, impact, and richly alliterative language of the original text, W. S. Merwin has imparted a new immediacy to a spellbinding narrative, written centuries ago by a poet whose name is now unknown, lost to time. Of the Green Knight, Merwin notes in his foreword: "We seem to recognize him--his splendor, the awe that surrounds him, his menace and his grace--without being able to place him . . . We will never know who the Green Knight is except in our own response to him."From the Hardcover edition.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2008, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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0307546098 9780307546098
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Sir Gawain & the green knight: a new verse translation
2004, Alfred A. Knopf
in English
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0375709924 9780375709920
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Sir Gawain & the green knight: a new verse translation
2003, Bloodaxe
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1852246340 9781852246341
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
October 30, 2003, Bloodaxe Books
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