Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage #joyce intellectual history and science writing

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage #joyce intellectual history and science writingPreserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from around 1400, composed by an anonymous master, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was rediscovered only 200 years ago, and published for the first time in 1839. One of the earliest great stories of English literature, after Beowulf, the poem narrates the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts the Round Table festivities one Yuletide, casting a pall of unease over the