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The legend of Sir Gawaine.

Sir Gawaine and Regel.

The story begins with the adventure of King Arthur traveling incognito.

Once, Arthur went out on an adventure disguised as a wandering knight. When he went through the deep forest, he found a strange castle. As it is getting late, he hopes to spend the night here. But when he wanted to enter the castle, a guard in the castle warned him to leave, but Arthur wouldn't listen and insisted on spending the night in the castle.

There lived a tall soldier named "Death Axe" in the castle. He hopes to fight the knight of the Round Table, but he thinks no one can fight him. The samurai asked Arthur to cut off his head with an axe. Arthur swung an axe to cut off the samurai's body, but the other side stood up as if nothing had happened and pressed the head on the ground back to his neck. Then it was Arthur's turn to behead. Arthur knew he had been cheated, but he bravely stretched out his neck to meet the samurai's axe.

The axe of death smiled and praised Arthur's courage. He said that if Arthur could answer a question correctly, he would be saved from death. If he dialed the wrong number, he would die. The question is "What do women want most?" Arthur walked out of the castle, and in the forest he met Sir Gawaine who was out exploring. When he told Gawaine the whole story, Gawaine immediately promised to help King Arthur find the answer to the question.

In the past seven days, King Arthur and Sir Gawaine have traveled all over the country. They asked the women they met along the way. They met a young girl with flowers on her head, a mother with children, a poor woman herding sheep by the roadside, and a lady wearing jade today. Some people say that what women want most is beauty. Some people say love. Others say it's wisdom. Children, wealth, adventure or truth. King Arthur wrote down their answers one by one. However, he knew that these answers were wrong.

On the seventh day, Arthur and Gawaine returned to the black castle of Death Axe. Suddenly, they heard a strange laugh. An old woman sat on a log. She turned her back on them. Now she turned around and gave a strange laugh. King Arthur held his breath; Gawaine turned pale and looked away. The old woman looks like a monster. Her skin is wrinkled and yellow; A pair of hands are almost like animal claws; There are only a few protruding teeth in the mouth; One eye is wearing an eye patch.

This woman's name is Regriel. She told Arthur that she could tell him the answer to this question, but only if a knight of the Round Table married her.

Arthur immediately refused. He could never let his knight marry such a "monster". But Gawaine agreed, because he didn't want his king to die. Arthur tried to dissuade him many times, but Gawaine still insisted.

Raiguel called Arthur over and whispered something in her ear. Hearing her words, King Arthur almost smiled. Perhaps this answer is what women want most; The same is true for men. He got on the horse. When Arthur and Gawaine came to the edge of the forest, Arthur told Gawaine to stay where he was and wait for him. I have to go alone,' he said.

He rode up the hill and came to the front of the black castle. The axe of death is standing on the bridge of the moat, grinding his axe.

"You came back as promised," he said to Arthur, raising his axe. "I will believe my admission. Now tell me, what's your answer? What do women want most? "

Arthur began to say some answers he heard on the road.

"No, neither," said the samurai. He waved an axe. "Put your head out. It's time. "

"Wait a minute," said King Arthur. "I have another answer, which was told to me by an old woman in the forest. What women want most is autonomy! " The roar of the samurai. "My sister! Reggie. She told you. She cheated me. However, I will keep my promise. I won't kill you! However, don't call here again! "

King Arthur rode away from the Black Castle. He is free, but he is not happy at all. Gavin paid a terrible price for Arthur's life.

Two days later, Sir Gawaine married Miss Rieger. No one was invited to the wedding except King Arthur. However, Sir Gawaine's friends don't understand why they weren't invited. So they prepared a grand wedding banquet in the hall, and everyone was waiting to bless Canadian literature.

Someone shouted, "They are coming!" Knights and ladies began to celebrate loudly. When Gawaine and his bride walked into the hall, the noisy celebration immediately turned into silence.

Miss Regrell is wearing a beautiful dress, but her terrible face can't be hidden. Gawaine is pale, but his head is high.

At that time, there was no sound around. However, Lancelot has always been kind-hearted, and someone must meet the bride at the wedding. Lancelot tried to keep his voice steady: "Welcome. I wish you and our dear friend Gawaine happiness forever. "

Then everyone started laughing loudly. They all pretended to be happy. After all, this is a wedding! But they all tried not to see Miss Rieger.

The party is finally over. Gawaine sat alone at the table. Everyone has come to say good night. Miss Regel has stood up and returned to her room.

Gavin really wants to get on his horse and fly away and never come back. But he is one of the knights of the Round Table, and he promises to live. Therefore, he must hide his emotions and try to be a good husband.

He walked up the stairs leading to their room and slowly opened the door. There is burning wood in the fireplace, but the room is dark. He once thought that Miss Lacker had left! Then the fire lit up the room. He saw her sitting in a chair in front of the fireplace. How terrible she looks!

"Hello, my husband! Come and kiss me! "

Gawaine remembered his promise. He tried to smile at his wife, then closed his eyes and gave her a gentle kiss.

Suddenly, a sweet and soft voice said, "Thank you, my Gawaine."

He opened his eyes and saw a beautiful woman! Gavin took a step back. He asked in surprise, "Who are you? Where is Miss Regrell? " The woman stretched out her arms. Her face is full of love. "I'm Miss raiguel."

Gawaine looked at her dumbfounded.

The woman smiled gently. "This is the real me. The axe of death put an evil curse on me. Because of your kindness and kindness, I have lifted half the curse now. But now it's only half, half the time every day will be me now, and the other half will be me before. "

She held Gavin's hand. "So, you have to make a choice. I know it's hard to decide. When do you want me to appear as a normal person, day or night? Which one do you want to choose? Think it over. If I were a monster during the day, you would be ashamed in front of the whole world. But if I am a monster at night, you will be unhappy at home. "

Sir Gawaine looked into her eyes. "You are the one who must bear this difficult problem. The decision is yours, not mine. "

Gawaine!' The rich man's face sparkled with joy. "Do you remember the puzzle? Now, you let me make my own decision. You gave me what women want most, my autonomy. Now you have completely broken the curse! I don't have to dress up as a monster anymore. I can get back to the way I was. Whether it is day or night, I will be the same. "

Gawaine has never been so happy. The next day, he held a wedding reception for the bride. This is the happiest wedding reception at Camelot Castle.

Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight

The story took place on Christmas Eve in Camelot. When King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table celebrated 15 New Year's Day in the Palace Hall, something unexpected happened. At the celebration dinner that night, a mighty knight in green armor rode a green Ma Chong into the hall. Everyone was shocked.

I saw the green knight holding holly in one hand and an axe in the other, threatening to challenge all the knights of King Arthur to see which knight dared to cut off his head with an axe, and demanding that the person who cut off his head must go to an appointment on New Year's Day the following year and get an axe from him.

Gawaine volunteered to accept the challenge of the unknown green knight. Gawaine quickly flew an axe and successfully cut off the green knight's head. When everyone present was rejoicing, I didn't expect the green knight to fall to his death because his head was cut off. Instead, he bent down and picked up his head, pointing his head at Gawaine, demanding that Gawaine must go to the Green Church on New Year's Day the following year and accept his chop back.

Unconsciously, the second winter came, and Gawaine had to follow the agreement with the Green Knight and go to the Green Church to accept his challenge.

Before he left, King Arthur hosted a banquet and a knight saw Gawaine off to celebrate his safe return. In order to realize his promise, Gawaine climbed mountains all the way, not only hungry and cold, but also in danger of wolves and beasts. No matter what difficulties and hardships, he persisted in going on. On the way to the green church, in a dense forest, he found an old castle, where he was warmly received by his master and his wife. Gawaine learned from their mouths that the green church he was going to was not far from here, so he left him in the castle for the time being. However, the owner has one condition for Gavin, that is, he will go out hunting during the day and exchange his prey for goods from Gawaine at night. Gawaine agreed to the master's request.

When the owner of the castle went out hunting, the beautiful lady in the castle waited for the opportunity to show her love to Gawaine, but everyone was immediately rejected by Gawaine.

When his master gave his prey to Gavin in the evening, Gawaine only kissed his master as a reward, and so did the next day. Until the third day, his wife gave him a very special ring, and Gawaine refused. Then his wife gave him a green belt, claiming that he could be invulnerable as long as he wore it.

Gawaine suddenly remembered his date with the green knight, so he changed his mind and agreed to accept the green belt from his wife. When exchanging gifts with his host in the evening, Gawaine kissed him three times instead of giving the host the green belt as a return gift.

Gawaine finally left the castle and, under the guidance of the guide, walked all the way through the snow to the Green Church. However, the wizard failed to dissuade him and had to leave him. At the end of the green church, he walked alone and occasionally heard the sound of an axe grinding ahead. Gawaine leaned towards the sound, and soon the green knight appeared in front of him. When he mentioned the axe, he cut it at his head. Gawaine unhurriedly shrank his head, and the Green Knight angered him. Gawaine, the second axe, didn't dodge and let him chop, but the Green Knight didn't hurt him directly. The third axe only cut Gawaine's scalp a little, and only shed a little blood.

When the Green Knight raised his axe and cut at him again, Gawaine jumped up and demanded that the Green Knight stop attacking immediately. At this time, the green knight showed his true colors. It turns out that he is the owner of this castle. The main reason is to test whether Gawaine follows the noble way of chivalry. The first two axes didn't hurt Gawaine. He represented Gawaine and didn't violate the agreement between them during his first two nights in the castle. The third axe hurt him because he didn't hand over the green belt given by his wife on the third night.

When Gawaine returned to Camelot, he told the whole story truthfully. Then King Arthur proposed that all knights of the Round Table and court women should wear green belts as a commemoration of this event. What everyone in Gawaine and Camelot didn't know was that all this was a trap secretly set by Countess Morgan Lefeby, in order to make King Arthur's most elite knight become Morgan Lefeby's green knight.