Mark Adderley's Reviews > Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Pearl / Sir Orfeo

This is a superb translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, designed, it seems, for reading aloud. At least, it sounds nice when you do. Tolkien preserves some of the technical jargon from chivalry, but he excelled at alliterative verse, and thus this translation shines! It's printed with his translations of the Middle English poems Pearl, probably by the same author as SGGK, and Sir Orfeo, a medieval version of the Orpheus myth with a happy ending.