2022-12-13
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So thats easysystoriesinenglish.com italki it a l k I take your English to the next level today.
Welcome to easy stories in English, the podcast that will take your English from okay to good and from good to great.
I am Ariel Goodbody, your host for this show.
Today's story is for intermediate learners.
The name of the story is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Today's episode is the first two parts and next week will be parts three and four.
You can find a transcript of the episode@easystoriesinenglish.com Gawain One that's easystoriesinenglish.com Gawain One Gawain One there you can also download the episode as a PDF Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an ancient poem originally written in the late 14th century.
The original is written in Middle English, which makes it quite hard to understand to modern audiences.
What makes it a very interesting poem is that we don't know the author, and the poem was only discovered in 1839.
So for hundreds of years nobody knew about this great work of art, and it wasn't until translations into modern English were made that the work started to gain interest.
Now it is considered one of the greatest poems in the english language and there have been many different versions made of it.
Recently, I read two different translations of Sir Gawain and I fell in love with the story.