A new edition of Jessie Laidlay Weston 's 1908 translation of the classic Arthurian legend of Sir Gawain and the Lady of Lys , drawn from a manuscript compiled by Wauchier de Denain in the 14th century. This story, which was not part of the original Arthurian legends complied by Thomas Malory but emerged from the same folklore tradition, continues the story of Sir Gawain, most famous for the story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight . Jessie Laidlay Weston (1850 – 1928) was an English independent scholar, medievalist and folklorist, working mainly on mediaeval Arthurian texts.