| LC control no. | n 79068347 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Uniform title heading | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
| Variant(s) | Gawain and the Grene Knight Sir Gawain and the Grene Knight Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight Gawayne and the Grene Knight |
| See also | Adapted as opera (work): Blackford, Richard, 1954- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
| Form of work | Poetry |
| Beginning date | 13 |
| Place of origin | West Midlands (England) Cheshire (England) Staffordshire (England) |
| Characteristic | Middle English poem |
| Found in | Oxford companion to world mythology online, viewed July 30, 2013: (a fourteenth-century Middle English romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight) Encyclopaedia Britannica online, viewed July 30, 2013 (Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight, also spelled Sir Gawain and the Green Knight) Brewer's dictionary of phrase and fable, viewed online July 30,2013 (Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, c.1360) Sir Gawain and the Grene Knight, 1960 The poems of the Pearl manuscript, 2015: page 17, etc. (the four poems survive in a single manuscript, British Library MS Cotton Nero A.x, generally believed to date from the late fourteenth century; the manuscript does not title the poems; the titles familiar to modern readers were supplied by the 19th century editors Sir Frederic Madden (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight) and Richard Morris (Pearl, Patience, and Cleanliness (or Purity); the English dialect is that of West Midlands, more precisely, South East Cheshire or North East Staffordshire; the four poems may have been written by the same unknown 14th century author) page 42 (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, poem of 2530 lines arranged into 101 stanzas; each stanza consists of between 12 and 37 alliterative long lines, followed by a five line "bob and whell"; the poem is divided into four sections, often termed "fitts") |
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