This whole story is really weird. We begin with King Arthur and his knights sitting around the round table and they are having a party, since it was the holidays. Everything is fine and going good, and then Green Knight shows up, first off, why is he Green?? Wouldn't that spark up some questions, just to start with?? Anyway, he wants to play a game, and asks who's in charge, he says, "Who is the captain of this crowd"? No one answers they were all looking around, I think no one answers at first for a couple of reasons…first, this stranger that no one knows disturbs their party and wants to know where the king was…how did he get in, didn't they have guards or anything outside the castle, or wherever they were?? I mean the King was there with them, so anyone could just walk in?? and I also don't think anyone wanted to out the king, I think they were all waiting to see what he did, and let him speak up for himself!! Cause who knows if you would have gotten in trouble for outing the king if anything happened to him, you probably would have been put to death.
King Arthur finally speaks up and says he's the king and then the green knight tells him he wants to play a game!!! I would not even consider playing a game with this guy, but it said in the story that Arthur likes games and stories, so he's up for it. He tells them they get to chop his head off and then a year and a day later they have to find him and he gets to chop their head off. So the King wouldn't have to do this, being the noble knight that Sir Gawain is, he says he will play this game. I can't believe no one else stepped up and volunteered!!! So he chops off the knight's head and then the knight picks up his head, and rides away!!!!! HELLO, wouldn't he be dead!! How does that just happen, he doesn't even say anything, he just picks up his head and leaves, and that's the last time they hear from him.
The time comes that Sir Gawain has to go find this Green Knight, he searches for the Green Knight. Eventually he comes up to this place in the woods; the guys name is Peter and is the porter of the place. Eventually, the porter tells Gawain that whatever he finds in the woods he will share with Gawain, and Gawain must give him everything he is offered. Sir Gawain of course agreed to this! Just another game for Sir Gawain to play!!
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