On the fourth day, Gawain is taken

On the fourth day, Gawain is taken to the Green Chapel by the host. As soon as they come before the chapel, the host disappears. Sir Gawain finds the chapel is a terrible place. When he approaches it, he hears a big sound. The Green Knight is sharpening his new axe. When the Knight comes out with an axe in his hand, Gawain offers his neck for the blow. Twice, he was not injured, and when the third blow falls upon his shoulder, he is slightly wounded. Then the Green Knight tells Gawain that he is the host of the Green Castle. He explains to Gawain that the first two swings have not left any injury on him because he was true to the compact and twice he returned the kiss. The last blow has wounded him because he did not return the girdle. Full of shame, Gawain throws back the girdle to atone for his deception. But the Green Knight wants him to keep the girdle as a gift. When Sir Gawain is back to his kingdom, his story becomes widely known. King Arthur orders that each of his knights wear a green girdle in order to keep Gawain's story in memory. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is the first great romance in English literature. In form, it is an interesting combination of French and Saxon elements. It is characterized by sophisticated and chivalrous emotion, delicate description of 1andscape, sympathetic understanding of human feeling. It is written in an elaborate stanza combining meter and a11iteration. At the end of each stanza, there is a rhyming refrain.