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music and audio education podcastsDoes the Green Knight kill Sir Gawain?
Hereof, does Sir Gawain die in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?
Gawain leaps to the challenge and whacks the Green Knight with an axe, chopping off his head. However, the Green Knight does not die. He simply grabs his severed head and tells Gawain that to keep his honor, Gawain must find him in the Green Chapel and submit to the blow in a year and a day.
Subsequently, one may also ask, what did Sir Gawain do to the Green Knight?
It 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.
He could have chosen red for strength and power or purple for royalty and wealth, but instead he chose green. The green knight has green tinted skin and features, a green holly branch, a green axe, and a green horse. Green is known to stand for peace, restfulness, harmony, lust, love, fertility, and nature.