I have been reading great western literature for over 3 years for a teaching course i have been taking. This is one of my favorites! One person found this helpful. Cheaper then in stores. This is not a comment on the original text of Sir Gawain nor on the translation. I give 5 stars for the book itself. This review is for the Kindle version. One of the advantages of ebook over traditional is hyperlinks. This doesn't have those in the text itself. If this book were free, some problems would be acceptable.
But it's not free. Amazon needs to stop contributing to the decline of Western civilization and clean up its sloppy handling of our classic works, especially those in translation. We want even more to take notes and look up words and flip back and forth between sections in these books. Just because one reads a book written in the Middle Ages doesn't mean one will accept Middle Ages standards of text when most people had no access to good literature, burned witches, died of the plague, etc.
In sum, buy the paper version.
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The kindle edition of the Oxford World's Classics edition has been corrected; the notes are now hyperlinked. Of course, the work itself is one of the greatest of Arthurian Romances and needs no further comment. One person found this helpful 2 people found this helpful. The author of this little masterpiece is unknown.
This story - or 'romance' if you like - was found in a little manuscript that was written in c. There are three other stories in that manuscript presumably by the same author.
One evening a huge knight on horseback bursts into the Hall during dinner, brandishing a large and fearsome battle-axe. Everything about him is green, not only his armor - as one might expect - but also his face, his hair, and even his horse. He has come in peace as he is advertising more than once.
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In short he says: But after one year and a day it will be my turn to deal a blow. As if nothing happened the Green Knight picks up his head, takes it under his arm and the head says: You have to promise that you will come looking for me. You can find me at the Green Chapel It's almost a joke but who knows? Maybe this is all just a joke. If you survive my blow I will give you a great reward. The Knight doesn't want to say where the Green Chapel can be found.
It's far away from here but you will find people who can show you the way. And remember, you promised. And so the adventure begins for Gawain. He has to go without a companion. He stands on his own for that was a part of the deal. This Fantasy element is the only one in the story. Everything else is realistic. That could be an indication that some scholars are right when they say that the Green Knight is a symbol for the reviving of Nature after the winter. There is a parallel between this symbolism and Gawain who's becoming more mature as the story unfolds. Throughout the story he's tempted in many ways to betray his vow of chastity and loyalty to the Virgin Mary, and near the end of the story he's tempted into cowardice.
After all is said and done Gawain has a more realistic view on knighthood. He becomes adult and reaches a new stage in his life just like the revival of Nature by the Green Knight. One of the things I like in this medieval romance are the hunting scenes described very vividly and in great detail. It starts with a description of the animal they want to hunt down: During the chase it is as if you can hear the horns blow and the shouts of the hunters, the barking of the hounds and the grunting of the wounded animal and it ends with the cutting of the meat after the bowels are given to the hounds as a reward.
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