Six hundred years ago, an unknown poet in the northwest of England set down a story of a knight and a stranger the color of holly and yew. At the New Year, a green man rides into Camelot bearing an axe and a game. One blow now, he says, for one blow returned a year hence. Gawain takes up the axe and strikes clean. The green man lifts his own severed head from the floor, fixes the court with its eyes, and rides out. Gawain is bound by his word to follow, and to kneel. What follows is the oldest test there is. The poem weighs whether a man will keep faith when faith may cost him his life. An illuminated edition of Gawain and the Green Knight, made in the spirit of yesterday. Bound by hand in green leather, gold laid leaf by leaf, the old lines and a modern rendering set side by side, the margins alive with painted flowers. A tale about the keeping of one's word, kept. The edition comes to Kickstarter in October.