At Arthur’s New Year feast a giant green knight rides into Camelot and offers a challenge: strike him one blow, and receive one in return a year later. Gawain accepts, and his journey to keep the bargain brings him to a castle where his host proposes a strange exchange of winnings and his hostess tests his courtesy.
A clear modern prose rendering of the finest Middle English romance, by the scholar of From Ritual to Romance. Download the free EPUB.