The tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, although it is somewhat outside of the canon of

Arthurian legend, is nonetheless one of the most known stories within these Arthurian stories.

And so I want to look at the story of Sir Gawain, look at the symbolism that's there.

I will probably make this video in two parts.

The first part will be kind of explaining the setup of the story, tell you the story,

the first part of the story, and then look at the symbolism that's involved in there. And in the next patron-only video, we'll do the second part as well.

This is Jonathan Peugeot.

Welcome to the symbolic world.

So I'll give you a basic sense of the story, of the first part of the story.

Of course, this is going to be very summary.

If you're interested in this story, it's very much worth reading.

It's very well written. It's one of the finer of the medieval romances. And I don't know if you can call it romance, but at least medieval

legends or stories. And so the story starts in the court of King Arthur. And so King Arthur

has these massive parties with all the nights of the round table.

And the story is happening during Yuletide, during the time of Christmas, more specifically at the New Year.

It is a New Year's feast and it is customary for Arthur to not eat until he has heard of some story, some challenge, some

adventure that his knights or the people in his court had gone into. And so while this is

happening, while everybody's kind of waiting to see what's going to happen, a giant green knight walks in to the castle.

The story takes a lot of time to describe his armor, his clothing, his hair,

that is green and gold.

And his horse is green. He is green, his clothes is green.

Everything about him is green with gold ornamentation.

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