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The translations into modern English of the three medieval English poems contained herein - «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight», «The Pearl» and «Sir Orpheo» - were made by J.R.R. Tolkien. J.R.R. Tolkien performed them for poetry fans and for his own studies. His son Christopher Tolkien prepared them for publication, along with comments, after the writer's death. &Sir Gawain» is a chivalric romance, a magical fairy tale for adults, full of life and colour. &The Pearl» is an elegy for the death of a child, a poem imbued with a sense of great personal loss.

Both of these poems by an unknown author were written around 1400 in alliterative verse. «Sir Orfeo» belongs to an earlier and different tradition.

In the Ukrainian translation, Olena O. Lear reproduced English alliteration according to the same principles that were used in her translations of the Old English heroic epic &Beowulf, two of Tolkien's poems from The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, and his unfinished poem The Fall of Arthur. So now Ukrainian readers have the opportunity to get acquainted with the courtly poetry of educated medieval Englishmen.