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The content of Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight

Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight is 2,530 lines long and is called the best "Arthur Legend" in English. The whole poem is divided into four parts. 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 suggested that all knights of the Round Table and court women should wear green belts as a commemoration of this event. What all the people in Gawaine and Camelot don't know is that all this is a trap secretly set by the Countess Morgan Le Phoebe, in order to make King Arthur's most elite knight become the green knight of the "Goddess" (Morgan Le Phoebe).