Sir Gawain finds the Green Chapel and receives his blow just like he promised in their pact, but he is not killed because the Green Knight tested Sir Gawain and saw that he could trust him as stated in lines 2362-2365 (Gawain 234). Many kings feared that there were traitors among them and many wanted to figure out if the people they believed to be a traitor was actually telling the truth. For the most part, however, the person accused would be imprisoned but there were few that could escape that terrible fate if they could prove themselves and their loyalty to their
Sir Gawain finds the Green Chapel and receives his blow just like he promised in their pact, but he is not killed because the Green Knight tested Sir Gawain and saw that he could trust him as stated in lines 2362-2365 (Gawain 234). Many kings feared that there were traitors among them and many wanted to figure out if the people they believed to be a traitor was actually telling the truth. For the most part, however, the person accused would be imprisoned but there were few that could escape that terrible fate if they could prove themselves and their loyalty to their