Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 

Translated by Jessie Laidlay Weston 


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Read by Tony Addison. Total running time: 02:37:35 

King Arthur lies at Camelot upon a Christmas-tide and will not eat 
until he hears tell of a marvel of knightly feats. In among them rides 
the Green Knight and challenges any knight of the Table Round to 
the beheading game; one of them, he suggests, can strike off his 
head and, at the end of a year, if he survives, he will then strike off 
his beheader's. Gawain accepts the challenge and strikes off his 
head; the Green Knight gathers up his head and charges him to meet 
him at the year's end at the Knight's Green Chapel to receive the 
fatal blow. What betides him on his journey, how he falls into 
temptation yet fails to fall. Is the subject of this all too human tale of 
an ordinary man, as he come to discover, caught up in a tale he 
cannot fathom of ritual and romance. 


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