Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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- "For I find it unfitting, as my fellow knights would, when a deed of such daring is dangled before us that you take this trial...Such a foolish affair is unfitting for a king, so, being the first to come forward, it should fall on me" (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pg. 43, ln. 350).
- Sir Gawain accepts the Green Knight's Challenge
- Sir Gawain accepts Lady Bertilak's magic girdle to try to save his life
- "'so simple in itself, or so it appears, so little and unlikely, worth nothing, or less. But the knight who knew of the power knitted in it would pay a high price to posses it, perhaps. For the body which is bound within this green belt...will be safe against anyone who tries to strike him" (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, pg. 143, ln. 1850).
- "Because the belt you are bound with belongs to me; it was woven by my wife so I know it very well. And I know of your courtesies, and conduct, and kisses, and the wooing of my wife-for it was all my work! I sent her to test you-and in truth it turns out you're by far the most faultless fellow on earth" (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, pg. 179, ln. 2360).
- The Green Knight reveals his true identity and tells Gawain that the journey has been a test of his chivalry
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