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jtjfalk 's review for:
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
by Gawain Poet
I thought the Middle English would be hard to tackle but this edition made it very accessible, with glosses and footnotes guiding you through it. The language itself is really fun to read, with all these long, throaty alliterative phrases. There's also a real joy in piecing together how different words evolved into modern English (for instance "all one" becoming "alone").
As far as the story goes, it is delightfully horny and weird ("Hir body was schort and thik, / Hir buttokes bay and brode;") and there's definitely a whole S&M undertone to the whole ritual beheading.
As far as the story goes, it is delightfully horny and weird ("Hir body was schort and thik, / Hir buttokes bay and brode;") and there's definitely a whole S&M undertone to the whole ritual beheading.