Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Auteur Burrows

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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ISBN

9780140422955

Bindwijze

Paperback

Taal

Engels

Auteur

Burrows

Uitgeverij

Penguin Classics

Jaar van uitgifte

1982

Aantal pagina's

176

Waar gaat het over?

Although the date of this work is uncertain, and we know nothing about the author, its composition is roughly contemporary with "The Canterbury Tales" in the later part of the 14th century. In the subtle and accomplished poem, the hero's knightly virtues are put to the test in a strange adventure. A New Year's feast at King Arthur's court is interrupted by the appearance of a gigantic Green Knight, resplendent on horseback. He challenges any one of Arthur's men to behead him, provided that if he survives he can return the blow a year later. Sir Gawain accepts the challenge and decapitates the knight - but the mysterious warrior cheats death and vanishes, bearing his head with him. The following winter Gawain sets out to find the Knight in the wild Northern lands and to keep his side of the bargain. One of the great masterpieces of Middle English poetry, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight magically combines elements of fairy tale and heroic sagas with the pageantry, chivalry and courtly love of medieval Romance.

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