
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Narrado por:
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Bill Wallis
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Simon Armitage
"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" narrates in crystalline verse the strange tale of a green knight who rudely interrupts the Round Table festivities one Yuletide, casting a pall of unease over the company and challenging one of their number to a wager. The virtuous Gawain accepts and then decapitates the intruder with his own axe. Gushing blood, the knight reclaims his head, orders Gawain to seek him out a year hence, and departs. Next Yuletide, Gawain dutifully sets forth. His quest for the Green Knight involves a winter journey, a seduction scene in a dream-like castle, a dire challenge answered, and a drama of enigmatic reward disguised as psychic undoing.
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The story is really good, and the poetry remains to a fair extent in the translation. The reader is outstanding.
great original, translation, and reader
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The hint of supernatural forces at play in the narrative is heightened by the gripping vocal interpretations that Wallis brings to the reading.
The rich language and alliterative composition remain a thing of joy these hundreds of years later.
Breathtaking
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Great
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Very good performance by the narrator.
Old Fable in a Superb, Refreshing New Translation
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One of the greatest of all winter tales
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It’s a beautiful, colorful (pun intended), comedic, and fantastical story and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Half in Modern English, half in Old English
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Arthurian Romance
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Would you consider the audio edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to be better than the print version?
This medieval Englsh poem was intended to be listened to - not read. This version allows a modern audience to respond to it in perhaps a similar way to those listening in or around the year 1400.Who was your favorite character and why?
One can picture Sir Gawain easily - not only physically in the perfection of his body and clothes, but also as a young knight eager to behave as he knows he should. His reaction when confronted with his failings is movingly described.What does Bill Wallis bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Narration by Bill Wallis would give depth and drama to the back of a cereal packet.Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The moment when the identity of the Green Knight is revealed.Any additional comments?
I wondered if I would be able to concentrate on this, sharing as I'm afraid I do the lack of concentration of many other modern listeners to anything that might be difficult or out of the ordinary. I needn't have worried. I only stopped listening when real life intruded, and then was eager to get back to it.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight has been translated into a masterly modern alliterative version by Simon Armitage - and Bill Wallis was the perfect narrator of this timeless, moving, magical story. Then there is the bonus of hearing the text as it probably sounded in its original form - musical to listen to even when one only understands part of each stanza.Timeless
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Great Listen
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I wasn't originally planning to listen to the Old English, but once I got started it was fun to see which lines were recognizable as English and which ones weren't. I got so much more out of the audio version of this book than I would have if I had bought the print edition. There's no way I would have read half a book of Old English, so having someone pronouncing all of the words really added to my enjoyment of the text.
Great!
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