Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English: "Sir Gawayn and þe Grene Knyȝt") is a late 14th-century Middle English chivalric romance. It is one of the best known Arthurian stories, with its plot combining two types of folklore motifs, the beheading game and the exchange of winnings. Written in stanzas of alliterative verse, each of which ends in a rhyming bob and wheel, it draws on Welsh, Irish, and English stories, as well as the French chivalric tradition. It is an important example of a chivalric romance, which typically involves a hero who
The Legend of King Arthur The Legend of King Arthur The Legend of King Arthur is a British television fantasy serial, produced by the BBC in association with Time-Life Television and the Australian Broadcasting Commission, and broadcast on BBC 1 in 1979. Earnestly historicist, the production design of the show was of the heroic age, "ca. A.D." 500, like the HTV production "Arthur of the Britons" (1972–3). However, the tragic storyline of this BBC version kept closer faith with the chivalric romance of "Le Morte d'Arthur". The Arthurian scholar Norris J. Lacy opines: ""The Legend of King Arthur" has the leisure to depict the legend