The Cultural History Blog » Mythology http://www.scarcliff.com/cultural-history Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:50:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Sir Gawain And The Green Knight http://www.scarcliff.com/cultural-history/2007/12/sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight/ http://www.scarcliff.com/cultural-history/2007/12/sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight/#comments Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:04:37 +0000 Brent http://www.scarcliff.com/cultural-history/2007/12/sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight/ Continue reading →]]> “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” is a medieval romance (it inherits a body of Arthurian legends that had circulated in England for a couple of centuries) but also an outlandish ghost story, a gripping morality tale and a weird thriller. It is a sexual teaser that keeps you on the edge of your seat. It’s easy to imagine huddling around the fire to listen to it. You can tear through it in a night or two — I couldn’t put down Simon Armitage’s compulsively readable new verse translation — and linger over it for years.

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