‘Drad was he never’: A re-reading of Sir Gawain 

Gawain, hero of Arthurian legend and romance. A nephew and loyal supporter of King Arthur, Gawain appeared in the earliest Arthurian literature as a model of knightly perfection, against whom all other knights were measured.The lines below are taken from the anonymous poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, which is considered one of the masterpieces of Middle English literature.