Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - late 14th-century Middle English chivalric romance. This book is the 481^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 317^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” in English Wikipedia has 93.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 165 references and 36 sections.

This article has the best quality in Hungarian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 317^th most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 481^st most popular in books.

In June 2025 the article “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”, its content was written by 574 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1149 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is on the 317^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 481^st place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 475 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1630 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #174 in March 2008
• Global: #2060 in March 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #302 in August 2021
• Global: #753 in August 2021

There are 29 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Hungarian (hu) Sir Gawain és a Zöld Lovag		95.5561
2	English (en) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight		93.2915
3	Russian (ru) Сэр Гавейн и Зелёный Рыцарь		87.8758
4	Ukrainian (uk) Сер Гавейн і Зелений Лицар		84.991
5	Serbian (sr) Сер Гавејн и Зелени витез		77.7039
6	French (fr) Sire Gauvain et le Chevalier vert		72.8072
7	Catalan (ca) Sir Galvany i el Cavaller verd		41.8885
8	German (de) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight		39.1231
9	Italian (it) Sir Gawain e il Cavaliere Verde		38.6
10	Greek (el) Ο σερ Γκαουέιν και ο Πράσινος Ιππότης		37.9616

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight		7 583 971
2	Russian (ru) Сэр Гавейн и Зелёный Рыцарь		450 451
3	Spanish (es) Sir Gawain y el Caballero Verde		302 162
4	French (fr) Sire Gauvain et le Chevalier vert		262 803
5	Italian (it) Sir Gawain e il Cavaliere Verde		233 233
6	German (de) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight		221 155
7	Japanese (ja) ガウェイン卿と緑の騎士		213 721
8	Chinese (zh) 高文爵士与绿骑士		151 225
9	Portuguese (pt) Sir Gawain e o Cavaleiro Verde		124 546
10	Polish (pl) Pan Gawen i Zielony Rycerz		123 781

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight		21 986
2	Russian (ru) Сэр Гавейн и Зелёный Рыцарь		2 039
3	Italian (it) Sir Gawain e il Cavaliere Verde		1 121
4	French (fr) Sire Gauvain et le Chevalier vert		969
5	Spanish (es) Sir Gawain y el Caballero Verde		831
6	Japanese (ja) ガウェイン卿と緑の騎士		716
7	German (de) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight		589
8	Portuguese (pt) Sir Gawain e o Cavaleiro Verde		439
9	Hungarian (hu) Sir Gawain és a Zöld Lovag		420
10	Simple English (simple) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight		373

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight		574
2	French (fr) Sire Gauvain et le Chevalier vert		78
3	German (de) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight		73
4	Russian (ru) Сэр Гавейн и Зелёный Рыцарь		63
5	Hungarian (hu) Sir Gawain és a Zöld Lovag		53
6	Italian (it) Sir Gawain e il Cavaliere Verde		51
7	Spanish (es) Sir Gawain y el Caballero Verde		40
8	Dutch (nl) Heer Gawein en de groene ridder		38
9	Japanese (ja) ガウェイン卿と緑の騎士		28
10	Polish (pl) Pan Gawen i Zielony Rycerz		20

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight		3
2	Russian (ru) Сэр Гавейн и Зелёный Рыцарь		2
3	Bulgarian (bg) Сър Гауейн и Зеленият рицар		1
4	Galician (gl) Sir Gawain e o Cabaleiro Verde		1
5	Chinese (zh) 高文爵士与绿骑士		1
6	Arabic (ar) سير غواين والفارس الأخضر		0
7	Catalan (ca) Sir Galvany i el Cavaller verd		0
8	Czech (cs) Sir Gawain a Zelený rytíř		0
9	German (de) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight		0
10	Greek (el) Ο σερ Γκαουέιν και ο Πράσινος Ιππότης		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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