Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation

One of the earliest great stories of English literature after Beowulf , Sir Gawain is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that "[helps] liberate Gawain from academia" ( Sunday Telegraph ).