Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight

by Anonymous (Middle English Poet)

The great Middle English romance in which Sir Gawain accepts a mysterious stranger's deadly game, and rides out to keep a bargain that will test his courage, courtesy and truth to the last.

At a glance Out of the fourteenth century comes one of the finest of all Arthurian poems, a story of… What it's about At King Arthur's Christmas feast a huge green stranger rides in and… Sir Gawain accepts, and must then set out through winter and wilderness to seek the… Along the way he is a guest in a castle where courtesy, temptation and a hunting host…

At King Arthur's Christmas feast a huge green stranger rides in and offers a strange challenge: any knight may strike him a blow with his axe, on condition that he return the blow a year hence.