I think Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the toughest texts in British literature to sell to students. The verse is clunky and strange. The events are incomprehensible to modern readers. (Even in recognizing it as fantasy, the decapitation challenge still seems silly). The climax is, well, anti-climactic. (After all that, Gawain just gets a little cut?). The characters aren’t well-developed and it’s not exactly full of quotable quotes. On the surface,