[Next Project] Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anoymous

[Emma Sweeney]

I want to take a short breather from John Donne and work on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. After careful research, I believe the best modern version of the medieval poem is by S. O. Andrew, who accurately recreates the poem line by line and preserves the difficult Middle English alliteration. This edition also provides helpful notes and a glossary for some archaic words. One unique feature in this edition is that S. O. Andrew adds accent marks for rising (acute accent) and falling (grave accent) rhythms (see Introduction).

page scans: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=dul1.ark:/13960/t9t20984n&seq=7

Emma

[Alex Cabal]

OK, please send a link to your repo once you start!

On 1/9/26 9:58 PM, Emma Sweeney wrote:
> I want to take a short breather from John Donne and work on /Sir Gawain
> and the Green Knight/. After careful research, I believe the best modern

> version of the medieval poem is by S. O. Andrew, who accurately
> recreates the poem line by line and preserves the difficultMiddle
> English alliteration. This edition also provides helpful notes and a
> glossary for some archaic words. One unique feature in this edition is
> that S. O. Andrew adds accent marks for rising (acute accent) and

> falling (grave accent) rhythms (see Introduction <https://
> babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=dul1.ark:/13960/t9t20984n&seq=11>).
>
> page scans: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=dul1.ark:/13960/
> t9t20984n&seq=7 <https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=dul1.ark:/13960/
> t9t20984n&seq=7>
>
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[Emma Sweeney]

repository link: https://github.com/EmmaSweeney/anonymous_sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight

I'd like to use The Green Knight Preparing to Battle Sir Beaumains by N. C. Wyeth for the cover.

Emma

[Alex Cabal]

OK, Weijia will manage with Robin reviewing. Great choice of cover, I'll
assign it.

On 1/10/26 2:36 PM, Emma Sweeney wrote:
> repository link: https://github.com/EmmaSweeney/anonymous_sir-gawain-
> and-the-green-knight <https://github.com/EmmaSweeney/anonymous_sir-
> gawain-and-the-green-knight>
>
> I'd like to use /The Green Knight Preparing to Battle Sir Beaumains/
> by N. C. Wyeth <https://standardebooks.org/artworks/n-c-wyeth/the-green-
> knight-preparing-to-battle-sir-beaumains> for the cover.

>
> sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight-cover.jpg
>
>
> Emma
> On Saturday, January 10, 2026 at 12:38:47 PM UTC-5 Alex Cabal wrote:
>
> OK, please send a link to your repo once you start!
>
> On 1/9/26 9:58 PM, Emma Sweeney wrote:
> > I want to take a short breather from John Donne and work on /Sir
> Gawain
> > and the Green Knight/. After careful research, I believe the best
> modern
> > version of the medieval poem is by S. O. Andrew, who accurately
> > recreates the poem line by line and preserves the difficultMiddle
> > English alliteration. This edition also provides helpful notes and a
> > glossary for some archaic words. One unique feature in this
> edition is
> > that S. O. Andrew adds accent marks for rising (acute accent) and
> > falling (grave accent) rhythms (see Introduction <https://
> > babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=dul1.ark:/13960/t9t20984n&seq=11

> <http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=dul1.ark:/13960/

> t9t20984n&seq=11>>).
> >
> > page scans: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?

> id=dul1.ark:/13960/ <https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?
> id=dul1.ark:/13960/>
> > t9t20984n&seq=7 <https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?
> id=dul1.ark:/13960/ <https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?

> id=dul1.ark:/13960/>
> > t9t20984n&seq=7>
> >
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[Emma Sweeney]

This is my first time making a glossary. What is the correct way to format a glossary term with multiple definitions? I currently have it like:

<dl>
...
<dt id="athel" epub:type="glossterm">
<dfn>Athel</dfn>
</dt>
<dd epub:type="glossdef">
<p>Of noble birth.</p>
</dd>
<dd epub:type="glossdef">
<p>Splendid.</p>
</dd>
</dl>

The HTML spec from the EPUB Dictionaries and Glossaries 1.0 spec shows multiple definitions in separate <dd> elements.

Emma

[Robin Whittleton]

Yep, exactly. See https://idpf.org/epub/dict/epub-dict.html#sec-2.3.2

When the glossary epub:type property is carried by a dl element, the logical association of glossary terms and definitions follows the name-value groups described in [HTML5]. In other words, a group of adjacent dd elements are definitions for the terms represented by nearest preceding group of adjacent dt siblings.

For what it’s worth, I think your production will be the first in the corpus to have this.

-Robin

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[Weijia Cheng]

Ok, management noted!

[Emma Sweeney]

Robin, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is ready for review.

repo: https://github.com/EmmaSweeney/anonymous_sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight

Notes:

1. There are two `modernize-spelling` changes that were not kept in the endnotes due to not matching the MW definitions.

2. One of the endnotes referenced an embossed image on the book cover. Since the endnote would no longer make sense, I replaced the reference with an SVG.

3. The se-lint-ignore file is for the rising and falling rhythms.

Emma

[Robin Whittleton]

Thanks, will look at this today.

-Robin

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[Robin Whittleton]

Review at https://github.com/EmmaSweeney/anonymous_sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight/issues/1. Just a handful of issues, some of which are questionable but I added them anyway for review.

-Robin

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[Robin Whittleton]

Ok Alex, ready for you.

-Robin

On 20 Feb 2026, at 00:06, Emma Sweeney <sween...@gmail.com> wrote:

Robin, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is ready for review.

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[Alex Cabal]

Great work Emma, I've released it! Thanks!

Great cover art selection too!

On 2/22/26 2:49 AM, Robin Whittleton wrote:
> Ok Alex, ready for you.
>
> -Robin
>
>> On 20 Feb 2026, at 00:06, Emma Sweeney <sween...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Robin, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is ready for review.
>>

>> repo: https://github.com/EmmaSweeney/anonymous_sir-gawain-and-the-
>> green-knight <https://github.com/EmmaSweeney/anonymous_sir-gawain-and-
>> the-green-knight>

>>
>> Notes:
>> 1. There are two `modernize-spelling` changes that were not kept in
>> the endnotes due to not matching the MW definitions.
>> 2. One of the endnotes referenced an embossed image on the book cover.
>> Since the endnote would no longer make sense, I replaced the reference
>> with an SVG.
>> 3. The se-lint-ignore file is for the rising and falling rhythms.
>>
>>
>> Emma
>> On Monday, January 12, 2026 at 2:51:08 PM UTC-5 weij...@bu.edu wrote:
>>
>> Ok, management noted!
>>
>> On Monday, January 12, 2026 at 2:22:00 AM UTC-5 robin wrote:
>>
>> Yep, exactly. See https://idpf.org/epub/dict/epub-

>> dict.html#sec-2.3.2 <https://idpf.org/epub/dict/epub-
>> dict.html#sec-2.3.2>

>>
>>> When the |glossary ||epub:type| property is carried by a |dl
>>> |element, the logical association of glossary terms and
>>> definitions follows the name-value groups described in

>>> [HTML5] <https://idpf.org/epub/dict/epub-
>>> dict.html#ref.html5>. In other words, a group of adjacent |dd

>>> |elements are definitions for the terms represented by
>>> nearest preceding group of adjacent |dt| siblings.
>>
>> For what it’s worth, I think your production will be the first
>> in the corpus to have this.
>>
>> -Robin
>>
>>> On 12 Jan 2026, at 02:37, Emma Sweeney <sween...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> This is my first time making a glossary. What is the correct
>>> way to format a glossary term with multiple definitions? I
>>> currently have it like:
>>>
>>> <dl>
>>> ...
>>> <dt id="athel" epub:type="glossterm">
>>> <dfn>Athel</dfn>
>>> </dt>
>>> <dd epub:type="glossdef">
>>> <p>Of noble birth.</p>
>>> </dd>
>>> <dd epub:type="glossdef">
>>> <p>Splendid.</p>
>>> </dd>
>>> </dl>
>>>

>>> TheHTML spec <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/
>>> grouping-content.html#the-dd-element>from the EPUB
>>> Dictionaries and Glossaries 1.0 spec <https://idpf.org/epub/
>>> dict/epub-dict.html#sec-2.3.2> shows multiple definitions in

>>> separate <dd> elements.
>>>
>>>
>>> Emma
>>> On Saturday, January 10, 2026 at 3:37:47 PM UTC-5 Alex Cabal
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> OK, Weijia will manage with Robin reviewing. Great choice
>>> of cover, I'll
>>> assign it.
>>>
>>> On 1/10/26 2:36 PM, Emma Sweeney wrote:
>>> > repository link:https://github.com/EmmaSweeney/

>>> anonymous_sir-gawain- <https://github.com/EmmaSweeney/
>>> anonymous_sir-gawain->
>>> > and-the-green-knight <https://github.com/EmmaSweeney/
>>> anonymous_sir- <https://github.com/EmmaSweeney/
>>> anonymous_sir->

>>> > gawain-and-the-green-knight>
>>> >
>>> > I'd like to use /The Green Knight Preparing to Battle
>>> Sir Beaumains/
>>> > by N. C. Wyeth <https://standardebooks.org/artworks/n-

>>> c-wyeth/the-green- <https://standardebooks.org/artworks/
>>> n-c-wyeth/the-green->

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>>> > >
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