If we did, we might, during this holiday season, dust off Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, a 2,500-line verse narrative by a poet who lived 600 years ago and whose name we don't know.

The Green Knight (Ralph Ineson) in the 2020 movie 'The Green Knight.' A24. While Sir Gawain is a staple of Arthurian movies, the Green Knight is less commonly brought to screens.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was required reading for literature undergraduates 40 years ago, and it has stayed with me ever since, though nowadays I seldom return to the original Middle English.

Filmmaker David Lowery’s (“Pete’s Dragon”) latest is a mesmerizing medieval fantasy where Dev Patel’s Sir Gawain squares off against a “Lord of the Rings”-esque Green Knight.

The Green Knight is an adaptation of the famous medieval poem known as “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” As in the film, the story opens on a Christmas feast in Camelot.

It tells one of the most famous of the King Arthur stories, that of ‘Sir Gawain & The Green Knight’. No one knows who wrote it, and in fact only one original manuscript exists.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, . . Norton, $27.95 (208pp) ISBN 978-0-393-06048-5. Composed in medieval England by an unknown poet and set in what were (even then) the old days of King Arthur ...

That project they claim could be SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, an adaptation of the epic 14th century Middle-English poem featuring the famous Knight of the Round Table.

It’s a question that’s long vexed scholars of the 14th century chivalric romance “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” The movie, like the epic poem, is full of mysteries, most of them unspoken.

"The Green Knight" is a real head trip. David Lowery's stylish retelling (in theaters now) of the anonymously written, 14th-century poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" follows a cocky young man ...

Simon Armitage goes on a journey to discover the language and landscape of the Arthurian romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and finds modern relevance in its hero's trials. Show more Simon ...