Reddit reviews Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Manchester Medieval Studies)

This Kickstarter kicks ass!

After reading Patrick's campaign summary, I am totally on board as a backer.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an essential piece of Transitional English Poetry.

• It exists between Old and Middle English.
  
• The majority of the poem is written in the Alliterative Old English style, but each verse ends in a rhyming 'bob and wheel' - which looks forward to the rhyming heroic couplets of Chaucer's Middle English.
  
• The 'Pearl Poet' freely and comfortably combines Christian and Pagan imagery - the most famous of which is Sir Gawain's Pentangle Shield, which the poet thoroughly describes as a Christian symbol.
  
• There are obvious undertones of 'masculine love' in the Poem, which Patrick has vowed to address (rather than ignore, like most other translations).
  
  But above all else, Patrick's translation seems to be an excellent representation of the alliterative poetic style, while still making sense to modern ears.
  
  There is an example of him reciting his translation of the first verse at the bottom of the Campaign page.
  
  'Peek Inside' this copy of W.R.J Barron's translation and turn to page 32 to compare the original text to Patrick's translation. He has done an excellent job.