Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century chivalric romance in Middle English alliterative verse. The author is unknown; the title was given centuries later. It is one of the best-known Arthurian stories, with its plot combining two types of folk motifs: the beheading game and the exchange of winnings. Written in stanzas of alliterative verse, each of which ends in a rhyming bob and wheel,[1] it draws on Welsh, Irish, and English stories, as well as the French chivalric tradition.
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Image: "The Stag at Bay," Tapestry, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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English KS2: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Gawain (Character) (Camelot Project, Uinversity of Rochester)
Other Gawain Texts from the Middle English Text Series
PDF of Weston Translation (University of York)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Illuminarium)
From In Our Time, BBC Radio 4
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Animated Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Animated Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
BAFTA Winner, 2002
Gawain and the Green Knight
Gawain and the Green Knight
Starring Murray Head, 1973
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