This prose excerpt is a partial, original interpretive translation I did of the fourteenth-century poem ‘Sir Gawain and The Green Knight’ (Anon 1925 and 1967) as part of one of my university modules.
Please be aware that this piece references beheading: read at your own discretion.
The translation, accompanied by the original Middle English text, follows:
References:
Anon. 1925 and 1967. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In: (ed. Tolkien, J.R.R.; Gordon
E.V.; rev. N. Davis) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Digitised
for the University of Padova, 2009. Available at:
http://www.maldura.unipd.it/dllags/brunetti/ME/index_gaw.php?poe=gaw [Last accessed
02/01/19]
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