Code Of Chivalry

A Year

During the Middle ages Knights were a thing of honor that only a select few men could earn the title. Men had to show courage and strength like no other, they also had to be loyal and honorable. In the excerpt Sir Gawin and The Green Knight , translated by Burton Raffel, both Sir Gawin and The Green knight portray chivaly code of the Middle ages through their actions and decesions in order to show their character.
The Code of Chivalry was the honor code of the knight. The Code of Chivalry was an important part of the society and lives of people who lived during the Medieval times and was understood by all. According to the code Sir Gawin shows all these things in Sir Gawin and The Green Knight. He portrays respect by excepting the challenge that the green knight offers him even tho he knows the Green knight gets to do the same challenge to him. The Green Knight offers Sir Gawin a challenge that he cannot refuse, a challenge that first seems a little retarded. The challenge is that Sir Gawin gets to swing an Ax at the impossers neck and the Green Knight has to stand their take it, but in a year the Green Knight gets to do the same challenge to SIr Gawin. Sir Gawin picks up the Ax and chops the Green knights head clean off, the
He portrays bravery by standing their and letting the Green Knight do the same challenge that Sir Gawin got to do to him. Sir Gawin arrives at what appears to be “the most cursed chapel ever where the devils of hell could pray their prayers quite well”. It is their that the Green Knight appears to Sir Gawin ready to repay him a deal. It is then that the Green Knight swung his weapon swiftly up, then down to the bare flesh where it struck Sir Gawin hard but hurt him only with a nick. Then the Green Knight procedded to tell Sir Gawin how honorable and brave he was for coming to meet him at his chapel for a deal made over a year