Title: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Author: Anonymous (circa 1370)
Translator: Simon Armitage (2007)
Pages: 198
Structure: 4 “Fitts”, 101 Stanzas, 2,530 lines
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a delightful fourteenth-century epic poem set in the time of King Arthur’s court and tells of the quest undertaken by a young knight in response to a challenge from a mysterious Green Knight.
Title: Beowulf
Author: Anonymous
Written: 750 CE
Pages: 213 Pages
Structure: An epic poem consisting of 3,182 lines
Beowulf is a wonderfully strange book.
Title: The Epic of Gilgamesh
Author: Anonymous
Written: 2,100 CCE
Pages: 119 Pages
Structure: 12 “Tablets”.
I will proclaim to the world the deeds of Gilgamesh. This was the man to whom all things were known; this was the king who knew the countries of the world. He was wise, he saw mysteries and knew secret things, he brought us a tale of the days before the flood. He went on a long journey, was weary, worn-out with labour, returning he rested, he engraved on a stone the whole story.
