The Myth Of The Green Knight

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One of the most popular poems of the 14th century is The Green Knight. This name originates from the fact that Green Knight appears throughout in green skin and green clothes. In one of the places in New York City, people are exchanging presents and holding on as the feasting is set to start anytime when the king demands for something adventures and exciting to hear. An enormous figure riding on a horse appears unexpectedly and in the venue. He has no protective armour and holds an axe in one of his arms. He does not want to fight with anyone and consequently insists that he is after delivering a Christmas gift. Someone is to attack him with his own axe for fear that he will come back and revenge the blow. The beautiful axe will be claimed by whoever takes him one on one. Arthur presents himself for …show more content…

One of the youngest of Arthur’s Knights and Arthur’s nephew solicits honour on the contrary. The gigantic Knight bares his neck as he bends and Gawain cut off his neck. The Knight does not fall and instead picks up his neck and remounts it. Most of the sculptures that were discovered in the twentieth century and the early part of the 21st century have been collectively referred to as “Venus Figurines”. The blanket reference of all such sculptures is believed to be due to the myth of the time that women who were depicted in art as naked and having exaggerated parts of the body represented early fertility. Venus is just referred to because most of the figurines came after several years of the myths about Venus. Some of the experts reject the term and name the sculpture directly referring to them as “woman “. Little information have been published about the origin of the sculpture. This sculpture is one of the few sculptures that survived the age in history. The sculpture seemingly had no feet and hence might have been rooted onto the