Holiday hiatus

I won’t be checking in too often between now and New Year’s Day — family, friends and paying work all beckon. On New Year’s Day I’ll post the long-awaited first and second installments of “The Greatest Swordfight Movies of All Time.” Before that, I will spend some quality time on Christmas Day with Simon Armitage’s new translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Apropos of which, here’s an interesting animated version of the Sir Gawain story, done up to resemble panels of stained glass.

And after that, here’s a chaser.