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Forgotten Ground Regained

The Pearl Poet

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Resources on this Site
  • Introduction
  • Modern English Translation
  • Excerpt from Simon Corble's Dramatic Adaptation of the Poem (with Introduction)
  • J. Simon Harris, The Cycle of the Seasons in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Michael Smith, The modern landscape of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Martin Kennedy Yates, What Causes Sir Gawain to Go at a Gallop
Elsewhere on the Web
  • Middle English text (partially modernized, with glosses for hard words)
  • Jessie Weston's prose translation
  • Jessie Weston's verse translation
  • W.A. Neilson's prose translation
  • SparkNotes
  • A fun summary of SGGK from Annalee Newitz
  • Performance of Armitage SGGK Translation (Ian McKellen)
  • Performance of Tolkien's SGGK translation
Pearl
Who was the Pearl Poet?
  • Middle English Text of Pearl
  • Translation by Bill Stanton)
  • Another Pearl translation (Eller Collection)
Patience and Purity
  • Original text and translation of Patience
  • Alliterative translation of Patience by Helen Barr
  • Original text and translation of Purity (Cleanness)
External links on this page connect to the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, TEAMS Middle Engish Texts, The Camelot Project, Middle English stories and legends: translated and retold in modern English, Representative Poetry Online, In Parentheses, The Vernard Eller Collection, Ronald Boyd Koertge, Bill Stanton, and Internet Archive.
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