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EDITIONS.
 * Syr Gawayne, ed. Sir F. Madden, for the Bannatyne Club, 1839. A diplomatic text. Other Middle English romances which have Gawain as their hero are included. The only edition with full notes.
 * Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight, ed. R. Morris, for the E.E.T.S., 1864. Corrects some of the errors in Madden's text. There are a few notes and a glossary (incomplete, of little value). Text revised by Sir. I. Gollancz, 1897 and 1912.
 * Lines 2069-2488, excellently ed. K. Sisam in Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose, with glossary by J. R. R. Tolkien, Oxford, 1921.


 * Early English Alliterative Poems, ed. R. Morris for the E.E.T.S., 1867, revised 1869; contains Pearl, Cleanness (Purity), and Patience. Good text, the apparatus somewhat out of date.
 * Pearl, ed. Osgood, Boston, 1906. ed. Sir I. Gollancz, with metrical translations, London, 1891; revised edition, together with Boccaccio’s Olympia, 1921.
 * Purity, ed. R. J. Menner, Yale Univ. Press, 1920. ed. Sir I. Gollancz, as Cleanness, London, 1922. The glossary and illustrative texts have not yet appeared.
 * Patience, ed. Sir I. Gollancz, London, 1913. ed. H. Bateson, Manchester Univ. Press, 1912, 2nd edition, 1915.
 * Saint Erkenwald, ed. C. Horstmann, in Altenglische Legendun (Neue Folg), Heilbronn, 1881 (text only). ed. Sir I. Gollancz, London, 1922

FACSIMILIE
 * Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain, reproduced in facsimile from MS. Cotton Nero A. x. in the British Museum, with an introduction by Sir I. Gollancz, E.E.T.S., 1923. The introduction contains a list of the textual emendations proposed.