<u>Hidden characteristics of of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:</u>
Sir Gwain and the Green Knight is a medieval romance in as far as it deals with adventures of a brave and courageous knight, Sir Gawain, who accepts the challenges of a Green Knight and beheads him once with the Green Knight’s axe in King Arthur’s court as per the Green Knight’s wish.
The condition that the green knight puts forth before giving the challenge is that he would return it in a year and a day in the green chapel. Actually, it is a game. After he is beheaded once, he gives his head to the queen of King Arthur’s court and rides away.
In the end, the Green Knight turns out to be Bertilak, the lord of a castle that Sir Gawain visits on his way to the green chapel and stays on in on the request of the lord.
He is transformed into the Green Knight by magic of King Arthur’s sister, a sorceress who wanted to test Arthur’s Knights. He is the hidden character who reveals his true identity in the end after Gawain overcomes his trials.
Gawain is saved from the Green Knight’s blow because of the girdle gifted to him by Lady Bertilak. In the end, Lord Bertilak calls him a blameless Knight in the whole land.
The answer is the first one: The Danish men, including the bravest among the group, were heartbroken to find the head of Aeschere on the ground.
<u>Explanation: </u>
[Hint] the first part says "had sorrow of soul". It is explaining how the Danish men were heartbroken when they found the head of Aeschere.
Hope this helped!!
Have a good day!!
~A̷l̷i̷s̷h̷e̷a̷♡
You didn’t attach the passage. In order to infer, we need background context.
influenced by something possibly greater with very little or no free reign
I would say that line two, “The eye like the eye of faith believes”, because it creates a comparison between two objects (in this case the eye and the eye of faith) using the word “like”. I hope this helps!
