Anonymous 
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 

The fourteenth-century epic poem telling the story of a brave knight from King Arthur’s Round Table and his deadly wager with a mysterious ghost. A mysterious green knight riding a green horse storms into Camelot’s Yuletide feast, troubling the members of the Round Table, and challenges one of them to behead him on the condition that he may return the blow one year later. The brave Sir Gawain accepts but he is not counting on the green knight’s ability to cheat death. As Gawain journeys to keep his end of the bargain, his chivalry, loyalty, honor, and survival skills are placed to the test . . . One of the best known Arthurian stories, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a fourteenth-century Middle English chivalric romance written by an anonymous author. It has been adapted numerous times for books, television, theatre, opera, and film, including the 2021 production, The Green Knight, starring Dev Patel.