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'''Gawain's Leave-taking''' is a translation into modern English by J.R.R. Tolkien of four stanzas of a medieval English poem. The translation contains the three | '''Gawain's Leave-taking''' is a translation into modern English by J.R.R. Tolkien of four stanzas of a medieval English poem. The translation contains the three first stanzas and the last stanza of a longer poem "''Against my will I take my leave''" in the "Vernon-manuscript" (Bodleian Libraries, MS. Eng. poet. a. 1, f. 407va-b).<ref>[https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_4817 MS. Eng. poet. a. 1] (Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries; accessed 5.5.2020).</ref> [[Christopher Tolkien]] added it to the last page of ''[[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo]]'', a collection of his father's other translations of medieval poems.<ref>See also: '''Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo'', Preface, p. vi.</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 11:01, 5 May 2020
Gawain's Leave-taking is a translation into modern English by J.R.R. Tolkien of four stanzas of a medieval English poem. The translation contains the three first stanzas and the last stanza of a longer poem "Against my will I take my leave" in the "Vernon-manuscript" (Bodleian Libraries, MS. Eng. poet. a. 1, f. 407va-b).[1] Christopher Tolkien added it to the last page of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo, a collection of his father's other translations of medieval poems.[2]
References
- ↑ MS. Eng. poet. a. 1 (Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries; accessed 5.5.2020).
- ↑ See also: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo, Preface, p. vi.
