can you name any similar stories?
"Bricriu's Feast", "Life of Caradoc", "Perlesvaus"
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The earliest known story to feature a beheading game is the 8th-century Middle Irish tale "Bricriu's Feast". This story parallels "Gawain" in that, like the Green Knight, Cú Chulainn's antagonist feints three blows with the axe before letting his target depart without injury. A beheading exchange also appears in the late 12th-century "Life of Caradoc", a Middle French narrative embedded in the anonymous First Continuation of Chrétien de Troyes' "Perceval, the Story of the Grail". A notable difference in this story is that Caradoc's challenger is his father in disguise, come to test his honour. Lancelot is given a beheading challenge in the early 13th-century "Perlesvaus", in which a knight begs him to chop off his head or else put his own in jeopardy. Lancelot reluctantly cuts it off, agreeing to come to the same place in a year to put his head in the same danger. When Lancelot arrives, the people of the town celebrate and announce that they have finally found a true knight, because ma
why is the knight green in sir gawain UNANSWERABLE what kind of a work is it? Middle English chivalric romance how is it associated with the gawain poets? The real name of "The "Gawain" Poet" (or poets) is unknown.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight [SEP] Similar stories
The earliest known story to feature a beheading game is the 8th-century Middle Irish tale "Bricriu's Feast". This story parallels "Gawain" in that, like the Green Knight, Cú Chulainn's antagonist feints three blows with the axe before letting his target depart without injury. A beheading exchange also appears in the late 12th-century "Life of Caradoc", a Middle French narrative embedded in the anonymous First Continuation of Chrétien de Troyes' "Perceval, the Story of the Grail". A notable difference in this story is that Caradoc's challenger is his father in disguise, come to test his honour. Lancelot is given a beheading challenge in the early 13th-century "Perlesvaus", in which a knight begs him to chop off his head or else put his own in jeopardy.