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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Green Knight is an adaptation of the famous medieval poem known as “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” As in the film, the story opens on a Christmas feast in Camelot. Everyone’s having a ...

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 ...

One of those is the inclusion of the talking fox that accompanies Gawain on his journey to the Green Chapel. In the original story, Sir Gawain decapitates the Green Knight with the knight’s own ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...