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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Although there have been countless knights over the course of the Middle Ages, to this day still there are few who are more well-known than those of King Arthur's Round Table. As mentioned in the story Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the fame of the Knights of the Round Table was renowned even in the time of King Arthur, which is rather uncommon. As the story goes, the Green Knight enters King's Arthur's palace at Camelot at the time of New Year's, and challenges any one of the Round Table Knights who is brave enough to accept to a deadly game. The Green Knight announces that whoever accepts his challenge will be allowed a single swing of the knight's double-bladed axe if the challenger will take a return blow from the knight in exactly one year and one day's time. At first it is King Arthur himself who accepts this mysterious knight's challenge, for he knows no fear, as the poem mentions. Plus when this strange Green Knight first offers up......

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