When meeting the master of the castle, the readers are given descriptions that would accurately describe the Green Knight as well without actually connecting the two seemingly different characters. Sir Gawaine describes the mysterious knight as someone with a “broad and glossy… beard, all reddish brown…standing firmly on powerful legs” (lines 845-846). This can tie back to the beginning of the poem where the Green knight is described as having “a great beard… down over his chest like a bush” (line 182) and “his stature [was] the very tallest on Earth” (line 136). This foreshadowing hints at the fact that the knight and the lord are one in the same, but it still is not as bluntly obvious as the other author forces it to
When meeting the master of the castle, the readers are given descriptions that would accurately describe the Green Knight as well without actually connecting the two seemingly different characters. Sir Gawaine describes the mysterious knight as someone with a “broad and glossy… beard, all reddish brown…standing firmly on powerful legs” (lines 845-846). This can tie back to the beginning of the poem where the Green knight is described as having “a great beard… down over his chest like a bush” (line 182) and “his stature [was] the very tallest on Earth” (line 136). This foreshadowing hints at the fact that the knight and the lord are one in the same, but it still is not as bluntly obvious as the other author forces it to