Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a fanciful tale of Sir Gawain, a young noble knight of king Arthur's round table, and his adventures to hold up a challenge made by a mysterious Green Knight. This epic poem is not your usual story of adventure, the challenge that the Green Knight gives Gawain is more about integrity and bravery. In the book Gawain comes across a lord's manor and takes refuge there, The lord gives him another test of integrity before he shows Gawain the way to the Green Knight's Chapel. The story takes place in Camelot at King Arthur's court of the round table.
             "This king lay at Camelot at Christmas-tide with many a lovely lord..."(pg.26). The halls in Camelot were full of joy on Christmas as the knights of the round table made merry. The book goes through detail of the Christmas celebration. Arthur was the host and all his guests were the inhabitants of Camelot. They ate and drank merrily through the first course as the traveling bards played joyous music. But then "...there passed through the portals a perilous horseman..."(28). This great man was thought by the men in that court as the "...Mightiest man in middle earth..."(28). But the most astonishing spectacle was the hue that this mighty man was. He was completely green, his locks of hair were green , his skin, his clothes, even his steed. All the men in the court stared at this great green knight not knowing what to think. He carried no armor for protection but he did carry a holly bundle, which in those days was a peace offering, and a great axe. The books describes this axe in great detail, "... a branch of green steel and of beaten gold; the bit, burnished bright and broad at the edge..."(30). He presented a challenge to the court, "There is no man here to match me... if so bold be his blood or his brain be so wild, that he stoutly dare strike one stroke for another, then I will...