Whatever locals and storytellers may have heard or relate to others, Dev Patel’s Gawain did not lop off the Green Knight’s head with his own axe. The only catch is that it isn’t so-not in the film, anyway. If you know anything at all about the plot of the celebrated 14th-century Middle English narrative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, you probably know this much: It opens with the mysterious Green Knight challenging King Arthur’s court to what has come to be known as a “beheading game,” leading to Sir Gawain lopping off the Green Knight’s head with his own axe.įrom conversation among anonymous patrons at a Camelot pub in David Lowery’s The Green Knight -along with gruesome Punch-and-Judy puppet shows depicting the confrontation-it seems that this much, at least, about Gawain’s encounter with the Green Knight has already become common knowledge.
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