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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: With Pearl and Sir Orfeo [English, Old (ca.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: With Pearl and Sir Orfeo [English, Old (ca.

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  • EAN: 9780261102590
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  • UPC: 9780261102590
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  • Format: Paperback / softback, 178 pages
  • Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
  • ISBN: 9780261102590
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    Description

    This is a translation of three medieval tales. "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "Pearl" are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. "Sir Gawain" is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines religious and social values. "Pearl" is apparently an elegy on the death of a child, a poem pervaded with a sense of great personal loss: but, like "Gawain" it is also a debate on much less tangible matters. "Sir Orfeo" is a slighter romance, belonging to an earlier and different tradition. The three translations represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the original.