Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Legends from the Ancient North)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Legends from the Ancient North)
Reissue Edition, Kindle Edition
Price
$8.99
Publisher
Penguin
Publication Date
Reissue edition (November 7, 2013
Description
We know the " Gawain Poet " was a contemporary of Geofrey Chaucer's. He appears to have been the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , Patience , and Cleanness ; "he" may also have composed Saint Erkenwald . Bernard O'Donoghue is a Fellow in English at Wadham College and a noted Irish poet. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
Features & Highlights
- 'Tomorrow I must set off to receive that blow, to seek out that creature in green, God help me!'J.R.R. Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating and teaching the great epic stories of northern Europe, filled with heroes, dragons, trolls, dwarves and magic. He was hugely influential for his advocacy of
- Beowulf
- as a great work of literature and, even if he had never written
- The Hobbit
- and
- The Lord of the Rings
- , would be recognised today as a significant figure in the rediscovery of these extraordinary tales.
- Legends from the Ancient North
- brings together from Penguin Classics five of the key works behind Tolkien's fiction.They are startling, brutal, strange pieces of writing, with an elemental power brilliantly preserved in these translations.They plunge the reader into a world of treachery, quests, chivalry, trials of strength.They are the most ancient narratives that exist from northern Europe and bring us as near as we will ever get to the origins of the magical landscape of Middle-earth (Midgard) which Tolkien remade in the 20th century.
