Don't know if this link will work, but there's a review of a new Simon
Armitage translation of Gawain & the Green Knight in the NYT Books section
this (coming) Sunday.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/books/review/Hirsch-t.html?8bu&emc=bu>
Looks interesting, connecting to discussions we've had here lately about
alliteration in middle English & so on. There seems to be a recovery of
roots in progress in England that is starting to parallel the recovery of
Scots over recent decades.
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