From the beginning of the book, the motive of the Green Knight had been a mystery, but these four lines give it away. It is not his plan to get his head cut off. Instead, it is Morgan le Fay's as a way to bring down the court of King Arthur, her half-brother. Through this quest she had put Gawain through she successfully took the king and his court down a few pegs and showed them they were not entirely what they had believed themselves to be.
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