Our loss, no doubt. If we did, we might, during this holiday season, dust off Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, a 2,500-line verse narrative by a poet who lived 600 years ago and whose name we don't ...

It tells the story of a giant green knight who disrupts Christmas at Camelot, daring Gawain to cut off his head with an axe if he can do the same to Gawain the following year. Much to the surprise ...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Written sometime at the fag end of the 14th century, by a poet who we know almost nothing about beyond the West Midlands dialect he wrote in (and even that might ...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the best stories in the whole King Arthur saga, and one of the weirdest. Composed by an anonymous poet in the late 14th century, Sir Gawain features none ...

David Lowery’s latest film, The Green Knight starring Dev Patel, is a loose adaptation of the epic poem Sir ... British Library While aspects of Lowery’s adaptation takes the tale of Gawain ...

Lowery’s decision to adapt the most famous 14th century iteration of the story, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ... figures in a folktale pivotal to British cultural identity.

But what is Gawain to make of such a future? As source texts go, so is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, as if the Texas-based Lowery were signaling a transition from films about recent or invented ...

So I mean it as high praise when I say that I've never seen an Arthurian sword-and-sorcery epic quite like The Green Knight. With this boldly inventive adaptation of Sir Gawain and the Green ...

Simon Armitage goes on a journey to discover the language and landscape of the Arthurian romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and finds modern relevance in its hero's trials. Show more Simon ...

Sir Ian McKellen narrates ... by the appearance of a knight swathed in green. He lays down a challenge - a test of courage and heart - that is accepted by Sir Gawain, Arthur's nephew.

Composed in medieval England by an unknown poet and set in what were (even then) the old days of King Arthur, the tale of Sir Gawain begins when a magical warrior with green skin and green hair ...