John Gentile, Ph.D. & Henry Scott - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, was called “the finest Arthurian romance in English,” by literary historian Albert C. Baugh in 1948, a reputation that it continues to hold today as literary critics interpret the poem as a Pagan rite de passage, as a Christian morality tale, as a chivalric romance, or as a journey of individuation. In 2004, Sylvia Brinton Perera, analyzed the poem at a Jung Society of Atlanta workshop as “an initiation story,” in which “the ego consciousness is enlarged by the experience.” This program features Sir Gawain’s mysterious encounters with the magical Green Knight, along with other stories of magic and transformation from the world’s great oral and literary traditions, including such tales as “The Twelve Months” from Slovakia and “The Legend of Knockgrafton” from Ireland.