The Green Knight

The Green Knight

                I was an unlucky king. My queen had passed away and my daughter asked me to marry a widow who had already had a daughter. I objected but she would not be convinced, so I married the widow.

             

  My new wife and stepdaughter always mistreated my daughter, so I decided to send my daughter to our summer palace. One day, I had to bid my daughter goodbye to see a tournament. She asked me to send her regards to The Green Knight. One the way home, I passed a forest where I met a herdsman and his many cattle. I asked him whose cattle there were and he told me that they were the Green Knight’s. I continued walking and saw the amazing castle where the Green Knight lived. He was a handsome young man. Without thinking, I sent him my daughter’s regards. The young man said he did not know her. However, he gave me a green book as a give.

                When I got to my palace, I saw my daughter and gave her the green book from the Green Knight. My princess was glad to receive it and read the book quickly. Suddenly, a man few in the castle triying to get my daughter’s attention. She recognized him as the man had she dreamed of. The flying man started courting my doughter secretly. Unfortunely, my wife found out and made an evil plan. She poisoned a pair of scissors in the window. One day, the fliying man was injured by those scissors and stopped visiting my daughter.

                My daughter heard about the Green Knight’s illness. The only thing that could cure him was the  young snakes in my stables. I gave some of the snakes to my daughter and asked her to cure the Green Knight. She went to Green Knight’s castle to work as a maid. She persuaded the cooks to make the snakes into soup. Finally, the Green Knight recovered after eating the soup for three days.

                Learning of the Knight’s recovery, my daughter went to see him and ask him to marry her. He refused because he did not recognize her as a humble maid. Then my daughter cleaned herself up. The Green Knight then recognised her and promised he would marry her. In the and, they got married an lived happily ever after.