Gawain and the Green Knight

Description

Gawain is chilling in King Arthurs Court when a mysterious Green Knight barges in, threatens and insults everyone, and challenges them to a beheading contest.

Gawain takes this challenge and beheads the Green Knight who, being magical, picks up his head and tells Gawain he has one year to prepare; then ‘seek me in the Green Chapel’.

So, Gawain must either face his own certain death, or abandon his sense of who and what he is, (his ‘trawth’). Why is he doing this? And what does it mean?

Will Gawain face down his own mortality? And what strange challenges will he face along the way?