Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

• Fitt 1
• Fitt 2
• Fitt 3
• Fitt 4

Notes on the Text
A Note on some Words

Appendix A: from Fled Bricend / Bricriu’s Feast

Appendix B: Le Chevalier a L’Epee / The Knight of the Sword

About the Author

The late James Winny’s many other publications include Chaucer’s Dream Poems and editions of five of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.

Reviews

“This is the best translation of Sir Gawain. It has the taughtness and vigor of the original, and it shares that Gawain-poet’s almost miraculous ability to make the remote world of Arthurian romance immediate to the reader.” — Gordon Teskey, Harvard University