# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous.

- [Sir Gawain and the Green Knight](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_gawain_and_the_green_knight_se/chapters/sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight.md): At a New Year's feast in Camelot, a mysterious Green Knight challenges the court to a beheading game. Sir Gawain accepts, beheads the knight, who then picks up his head and reminds Gawain to meet him at the Green Chapel 
- [Fit I](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_gawain_and_the_green_knight_se/chapters/fit-i.md): During the New Year's feast at Camelot, King Arthur awaits a marvel before eating. The Green Knight enters the hall, challenges the court to a beheading game, and Sir Gawain accepts on behalf of the king. Gawain beheads 
- [Fit II](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_gawain_and_the_green_knight_se/chapters/fit-ii.md): Gawain takes his leave of the court and sets out on his perilous journey to find the Green Chapel. After a long and arduous ride through hostile lands, he arrives at a magnificent castle on Christmas Eve, where he is war
- [Fit III](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_gawain_and_the_green_knight_se/chapters/fit-iii.md): Gawain continues to be tempted by Lady Bertilak while the lord hunts. He resists her advances but accepts a green girdle that supposedly protects him from death, hiding it from the lord. The chapter ends with Gawain conf
- [Fit IV](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_gawain_and_the_green_knight_se/chapters/fit-iv.md): Gawain confronts the Green Knight at the Green Chapel. The Green Knight feints twice before nicking Gawain's neck, then reveals himself as Bertilak de Hautdesert. He explains that the entire test was orchestrated by Morg
- [Glossary](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_gawain_and_the_green_knight_se/chapters/glossary.md): A glossary of Middle English terms used in the poem, providing definitions and explanations for archaic words such as 'fey,' 'graith,' 'handsel,' and 'weird,' among others.
- [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_gawain_and_the_green_knight_se/chapters/endnotes.md): This chapter provides explanatory notes and references for the poem 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,' clarifying historical, linguistic, and literary allusions, including the origins of characters, the significance of c
- [List of Illustrations](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_gawain_and_the_green_knight_se/chapters/list-of-illustrations.md): A single illustration is listed: a left-handed interlaced, five-pointed star enclosed in a circle.

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