Preserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from around 1400,
composed by an anonymous master, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
was rediscovered only 200 years ago, and published for the first
time in 1839. One of the earliest great stories of English
literature, after Beowulf, the poem narrates the strange tale of a
green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts the Round
Table festivities one Yuletide, casting a pall of unease over the
company and challenging one of their number to a wager. The
virtuous Gawain accepts, and decapitates the intruder with his own
axe. Gushing blood, the knight reclaims his head, orders Gawain to
seek him out a year hence, and departs. Next Yuletide Gawain
dutifully sets forth... His quest for the Green Knight involves a
winter journey, a seduction scene in a dream-like castle, a dire
challenge answered - and a drama of enigmatic reward disguised as
psychic undoing.
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