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This beautifully decorated text includes as a bonus the complete text of Tolkien’s acclaimed lecture on Sir Gawain.įirst of ALL: Thank you for all your support, kind words and consideration during these very difficult past months. Tolkien’s vivid translations of these classic poems represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals. Interpreted in a form designed to appeal to the general reader, J.R.R. Worn out by grief, he falls asleep and dreams of meeting her in a bejewelled fantasy world. Arthur’s brave favorite for the challenge is Sir Gawain…Īccompanying Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in this book are Sir Orfeo, a medieval version of the story of Orpheus and Euridice, a love so strong that it overcame death, and Pearl, the moving tale of a man in a graveyard mourning his baby daughter, lost like a pearl that slipped through his fingers. A mysterious knight, green from head to toe, rides in and brings the court’s wait to an end with an implausible challenge to the Round Table: he will allow any of the knights to strike him once, with a battle-axe no less, on the condition that he is allowed to return the blow a year hence.
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It’s Christmas at Camelot and King Arthur won’t begin to feast until he has witnessed a marvel of chivalry. THREE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH POEMS, WITH TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY BY J.R.R. SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, PEARL, AND SIR ORFEO