Green Chapel

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The Green Chapel is the mysterious, remote site in the Arthurian poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" where Sir Gawain must meet the Green Knight to fulfill their beheading-game pact.

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Label Occurrences
Green Chapel canonical 2
the Green Chapel 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional location
literary setting
appearsIn Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
associatedWithCharacter Green Knight
Gawain
surface form: Sir Gawain
associatedWithEvent Gawain’s final trial
fulfillment of beheading-game pact
associatedWithTheme chivalric testing
honor and integrity
the supernatural
trial and judgment
countryOfOriginContext England
culturalContext Arthurian romance tradition
medieval English literature
describedAs mysterious
natural cave-like hollow
overgrown
remote
wild
environment covered with grass and vegetation
rugged landscape
firstAppearanceDateApproximate late 14th century
hasGenreContext alliterative revival literature
chivalric romance
hasRole meeting place of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
site of beheading game conclusion
languageOfWorkContext Middle English
locatedInFictionalUniverse Arthurian legend
mediumOfOrigin poetry
narrativeFunction climactic setting
testing ground for knightly virtue
nearFictionalLocation Bertilak's castle
surface form: Bertilak’s castle
ownedByInNarrative Green Knight
partOfWork Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
surface form: Middle English alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
perceivedAsByCharacters haunted or uncanny place
relatedMotif beheading game
exchange of blows
quest fulfillment
religiousConnotation parodic or subversive chapel
symbolizes boundary between civilization and wilderness
confrontation with truth
intersection of Christian and pagan elements
place of judgment
terrainType valley or hollow
timeOfKeyEvent New Year’s Day
visitedBy Gawain
surface form: Sir Gawain

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Green Knight journeyDestination Green Chapel
Bertilak's castle connectedNarrativelyTo Green Chapel
this entity surface form: the Green Chapel
Lord Bertilak woundedAt Green Chapel