ANNALISA’S RETELLING OF “SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT.”

ANNALISA’S RETELLING OF “SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT.” My daughter Annalisa has retold and illustrated “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” for an audience of children aged nine to twelve. In retelling the story, she chose not to translate the word “wodwo” into a word that a child would know, but to use one of the variants of the word that preserved the mystery of the original: “With his bright sword Gawain battled bears and boars and bulls, wolves and wild men and woodwos, giants and great snakes too.”