Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Created on July 28, 2022
Game for English Literature
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century chivalric romance in Middle English. The author is unknown. It is one of the Arthurian stories, with its plot combining two types of folk motifs: the beheading game, and the exchange of winnings.
The story describes how Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table, accepts a challenge from a mysterious "Green Knight" who dares any knight to strike him with his axe if he will take a return blow in a year and a day. Gawain accepts and beheads him, at which the Green Knight stands, picks up his head, and reminds Gawain of the appointed time...
Part 1
Camelot?
a castle and court associated with the legendary King Arthur
Windsor?
Which one?
a legendary British leader who led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the late 5th and early 6th centuries
King Arthur
When King Arthur was young, he used to draw the sword, _______, out of the stone.
Hrunting
Gramr
Durendal
Harpe
Excalibur
Which one?
Try again?
The Knights are an order dedicated to ensuring the peace of Arthur's kingdom following an early warring period, entrusted in later years to undergo a mystical quest for the Holy Grail. The Round Table at which they meet is a symbol of ____________?
equality?
hierarchy?
family?
Drag your answer to the blank.
Great!
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In Camelot on New Year's Eve, King Arthur's court is exchanging gifts and waiting for the feasting to start.
A gigantic figure, entirely green in appearance and riding a green horse, rides unexpectedly into the hall. He wears no armour but bears an axe in one hand and a holly bough in the other. He insists he has come for a Christmas game: someone is to strike him once with his axe, on the condition that the Green Knight may return the blow in a year and a day..
Good job!
Drag the right thing to the right point of the horse.
Green Knight:"Let me ask you again. What do I come here for?" (Click the right answer.)
For a beheading game
For revenge
For a huge ransom
For the Christmas party
For the queen
King Arthur is prepared to accept the challenge when......
it appears no other knight will dare.
Title 1
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...but Sir _______, youngest of Arthur's knights and his nephew, asks for the honour instead.
Lancelot
Wrong!!!
Percival
Wrong!!!
Tristan
Wrong!!!
Gawain
Give him a stroke at the right point.
The giant bends and bares his neck before him and Gawain neatly beheads him in one stroke.
However, the Green Knight neither falls nor falters, but instead reaches out, picks up his severed head, and mounts his horse. The Green Knight shows his bleeding head to Queen Guinevere...
, while the Green Knight reminds Gawain that the two must meet again at the Green Chapel in a year and a day, before the knight rides away.
Part 2
“On shield and coat in view/ He bore that emblem bright” (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Line 636). The five-pointed star dressed the front of his shield and the arm of his coat, and was therefore evident that he held high regard for its symbolism and meaning.Religiously, the pentacle's five points have been known to represent the five wounds of Christ, symbolize the Star of Bethlehem, the five virtues of knighthood: “generosity, courtesy, chastity, chivalry and piety” (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Line 663).
As the date approaches, Sir Gawain leaves to find the Green Chapel and keep his part of the bargain.
To catch bandits, first catch the ringleader.
Over hills and mountains...
Over hills and mountains...
Over hills and mountains...
Many adventures and battles are alluded to but not described.
Gawain comes across a splendid castle, where he meets the lord of the castle and his beautiful wife. Also present is an old and ugly lady, unnamed. Gawain tells them of his New Year's appointment at the Green Chapel. The lord proposes that Gawain rest at the castle until then. Gawain agrees.
The lord proposes a bargain to Gawain: he goes hunting every day, and he will give Gawain whatever he catches, on the condition that Gawain give him whatever he may gain during the day; Gawain accepts.
After he leaves, his wife visits Gawain's bedroom and behaves seductively, but despite her best efforts he allows her nothing but a single kiss.
Day 1
When the lord returns and gives Gawain the ______ he has killed, Gawain gives a kiss to him without divulging its source.
Which one?Click the right animal.
...the lady returns to Gawain, who again courteously foils her advances.....
Day 2
and later that day there is a similar exchange of a hunted _____ for two kisses.
kisses x 2
Which one? Click the right animal.
She comes once more on the third morning, but once her advances are denied, she offers Gawain a gold ring as a keepsake. He gently but steadfastly refuses, but she pleads that he at least take her sash, a girdle of green silk, which is charmed, and will keep him from all physical harm. Tempted, Gawain accepts it, and they exchange three kisses.
Day 3
That evening, the lord returns with a _______, which he exchanges with Gawain for the three kisses; Gawain does not mention the sash.
kisses x 3
Before you enter the next stage, click the button for a password.
I am an animal. I have three letters in my name. Cut the first letter off, and I will become a stronger animal with two horns. What am I ?
The next day, Gawain binds the sash around his waist. Outside the Green Chapel – only an earthen mound containing a cavern.
According to the narrator, which one is true?
Gawain gets hurt at the first stroke.
Gawain sacrifices himself gloriously.
The Green Knight causes only a slight wound on Gawain's neck.
The Green Knight, laughing, reveals himself to be none other thanBertilak de Hautdesert. He explains that the entire adventure was a trick of the unnamed "elderly lady" Gawain saw at the castle, who is the sorceress Morgan le Fay. The nick Gawain suffered at the third stroke was because of his attempt to conceal the gift of the sash. Gawain is ashamed to have behaved deceitfully, but the Green Knight laughs and pronounces him the most blameless knight in all the land.
Gawain returns to Camelot wearing the sash as a token of his failure to keep his promise. The Knights of the Round Table absolve him of the blame and decide that henceforth each will wear a green sash in recognition of Gawain's adventure and as a reminder to be honest.
Where is the sash?Click the right point so that you may pass.
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The End