Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Auteur:	Texte généralement attribué au Pearl Poet.
Titre:
Date:	Fin du XIV^e siècle
Forme:	2530 vers répartis en 101 laisses
Langue:	Anglais
Contenu:
Incipit:	siþen þe sege and þe assaut watz sesed at troye þe borʒ brittened and brent to brondez and askez þe tulk þat þe trammes of tresoun þer wroʒt watz tried for his tricherie þe trewest on erþe...
Explicit:	... mony aunterez here biforne haf fallen suche er þis now þat here þe croun of þorne he bryng vus to his blysse amen

Manuscrit

London, British Library, Cotton, Nero A. X, f. 91

Éditions modernes

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Edited by J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1925, xxvii + 211 p. + 2 pl. — Second Edition, Edited by Norman Davis, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1967, 232 p.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Re-edited from M.S. Cotton Nero, A.X, in the British Museum, by Sir Israel Gollancz, with Introductory Essays by Mabel Day and Mary S. Serjeantson, London, Milford (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 210), 1940, lxxii + 186 p. — Réimpr.: 1950; 1957; 1964; 1966.
"Pearl", "Cleanness", "Patience", "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", Edited with an Introduction by A. C. Cawley and J. J. Anderson, London, Dent, 1962, 258 p.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight éd. R. A. Waldron, London, Arnold (York Medieval Texts), 1970, 171 p.
Sir Gawain and the Green knight, Edited by J. A. Burrow, Harmondsworth, Penguin (Penguin English Poets), 1972, 176 p.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Pearl; Cleanness; Patience, Edited by J. J. Anderson, London, Everyman (Everyman's Library), 1976, xxv + 319 p. — Réimpr.: 1996.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Critical Edition [by] Theodore Silverstein, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2^e éd., 1984, 268 p.
The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript: "Pearl", "Cleanness", "Patience", "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" Edited by Malcolm Andrew and Ronald Waldron, London, Arnold (York Medieval Texts. Second Series), 1978, 376 p. — 2^e éd.: Exeter, University of Exeter (Exeter Medieval English Texts), 1987. — 3^e éd.: 1996. — 4^e éd.: 2002. — 5^e éd.: Fully Revised Fifth Edition With New Introduction and Incorporating Prose Translation on CD-ROM, 2007.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Edited, with an Introduction, Prose Translation and Notes by W. R. J. Barron, Manchester, Manchester University Press (Manchester Medieval Classics), 1974, 179 p.; 2^e éd., 1998, viii + 181 p.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: An Authoritative Translation, Contexts, Criticism, Edited by Marry Borroff and Laura L. Howes; Translated by Marie Borroff, New York et London, Norton (Norton Critical Editions), 2010, xxix + 237 p.

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight, a Fourteenth-Century Poem Done into Modern English by Kenneth Hare, with an Introduction, Notes and a Bibliography by R. M. Wilson, London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 2^e éd., 1948.
- The Complete Works of the Gawain-Poet in a Modern English Version with a Critical Introduction by John Gardner, Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1965, 347 p.
- From Cuchulainn to Gawain: Sources and Analogues of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", Selected and Translated by Elisabeth Brewer, Cambridge, Brewer, 1973, 101 p.; 2^e éd., (Arthurian Studies, 27), 1992, 184 p.
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Translated with an Introduction by Brian Stone, Harmondsworth, Penguin (The Penguin Classics, L92), 2^e éd., 1974, 185 p.
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Translated and with an Introduction by Keith Harrison, Lithographs by Virgil Burnett, London, The Folio Society, 1983, 98 p.
- "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", "Pearl" and "Sir Orfeo" Translated by J. R. R. Tolkien, London, Allen and Unwin, 1975, 148 p.
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Verse Translation by Keith Harrison, Northfield, Black Willow, 1994, 75 p.
- Barron 1998 (voir sous Éditions modernes)
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Verse Translation by Keith Harrison, with an Introduction and Notes by Helen Cooper, Oxford, Oxford University Press (Oxford World Classics), 1998, xlvi + 109 p. — Réimpr.: 2008.
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, and Pearl: Verse Translations [by] Marie Borroff, New York, Norton, 2001, 193 p.
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a New Verse Translation by W. S. Merwin, Tarset, Bloodaxe, 2003, 171 p.
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Translated and Introduced by Bernard O'Donoghue, London et New York, Penguin, 2006, xxvi + 94 p.
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Translated by Simon Armitage, London, Faber and Faber, 2007, ix + 114 p. — 2^e éd., 2008, xii + 116 p.
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a New Verse Translation [by] Simon Armitage, New York et London, Norton, 2007, 198 p.
- Andrew et Wardon 2007 (voir sous Éditions modernes)
- Borroff et Howes 2010 (voir sous Éditions modernes)
en français:
- Sire Gauvain et le Chevalier Vert, texte traduit et adapté par Juliette Dor, Paris, Union générale d'éditions (Bibliothèque médiévale), 1993, 153 p.

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