哈哈哈! Hahaha...
当四月的甘霖化解了三月的干旱 When April's soft showers has cracked the March Drought
和煦的西风轻轻吹拂着花蕾 （快点那边！） And the warm west wind has breathed its sweet breeze through tender buds (Hie up there!)
此时人人内心萌生了朝圣的心愿 That's when people get the itch to go on pilgrimages
我们要去坎特伯雷，知道不？到圣托马斯的礼拜堂里去沾点福气 We're gonna go to Canterbury, see? get blessed at the shrine of St. Thomas
不过，那也只是个借口 Well, that's excuse anyway.
听好了！女士们、先生们！ Listen up! Ladies & gents
我们昨晚可是说好了的，现在我再说一遍 let me remind you of what we all agreed on last night.
这个，就是这里的旅店老板哈利·贝利 This is Harry Bailey the inn-keeper here
是个藏不住话的家伙 not the type to hide his light.
为了给我们的旅途增添一些趣味 Right, now to speed up the journey,
到坎特伯雷的路上，每个人都要给大家讲两个故事 each of you will tell two stories on the way to Canterbury,
然后，回来的路上再讲两个 and another two on the way back, and--
由我来作裁判，讲得最精彩的人 who ever tells the best (I'll be judge)
将可以在我这儿吃一顿免费的晚餐！ wins a "slupup" ["Supper"] back here!
嗯他的旅店，我们买单！ His inn, we pay!
先生，请您。。。 Sir if it please your mind..
嗯，现在谁愿意先来给我们开个头儿？ Now, who'll kick us off with a story? Uh..
这样吧……啊！尊敬的修道院长！ now..what about..Ah! My lady prioress!
你好，先生 Bon nuit Monsieur.
冒昧地打扰一下，请问。。。 --I wouldn't want to cause you a mere moment's distress 嗯？ --Hmm?
您愿意屈尊来为大伙儿起个头吗？ Would you condescend to start?
呵呵……那可不行…… Hoho..it is impossible..hoho.. no.
她真的只喜欢说法语 She really only likes to speak French you know
和斯特拉福德那边的人一样，多么斯文，看看她吃东西的样子…… like they do in Stratford, so much more refined, and her table manners...
先生，老天保佑你！我这儿有个好故事！哈哈！ Sir, bless your kicks and bulls! Have I got a perfect story! Haha
小心！（放屁声。。。） Now look out ! (He farts) 这怎么说好呢？ What can I say?
你们受不了也没办法……普通人们就是这个样子 if any of you are too delicate, this is what people are like!
好吧，牧师先生，你来说个段子让大伙开心一下？ Right, preist, tell us something that'll make us smile
也好，这时节谁要是愁眉苦脸的就是逆天 All right, it's sin not to keep a smile on your face
要你不笑也难，整个修道院里就你一个男人！ Must be hard, when you the only man in a priory full of nuns!
如果你们想真正了解什么是女人。。。 If you want to know the truth about women,
我们都有种怪脾气 We suffer from a somewhat quaint delusion
这一位住在巴斯附近，她是个寡妇 This one lives near Bath, she is a widow...
如果有什么东西我们轻易得不到手，我们就整天哀叹 If there is something we can't easily get our hands on, we'll cry and groan all day
但要把东西硬塞给过来吧，我们立马躲到一里开外 Press something on us, we'll ride a mile.
她耳朵不好使，有一次被她老公扇晕了。 She is a little deaf. Her husband laid her out cold, once.
呃应该说是前夫 Her late husband..
她一共嫁了五个男人，这还不算年轻时勾搭的人--我不能再说下去了 Five husbands, not to mention other friends when younger. My lips are sealed.
那是我们最后一次吵架。 That was our last ever set-to.
不过从此以后，从丹麦到印度都找不到我这么称职的老婆了 Then on, I was the best wife from Denmark to India.
说起谈情说爱，她的确深谙门道 When it comes to the downs of love she knows all the smart pools.
她把和五个前夫的故事一个不漏地说了一遍 She told us, all of them
而且我始终忠贞如一。。。 And I was faithful.
女士，说得太妙了 Madam, what a delightful expostulation
我相信，这自然只是个引子咯？ but surely only a preamble, I trust?
看这个人多会说话！这是个修士，本应是自愿行乞过穷苦日子的人 Impressive, isn't he, a friar, dedicated to poverty, begging.
你知道吗，他有次竟然自掏腰包，帮一个女孩子支付了嫁妆 Do you know he's even been known to stump up a girl's dowry out of his own pocket
为的是让她好早点找人结婚。。。 So she can get married nice and quick
可问题是，所以有点油水的地方都被教会染指了 Trouble is the church has got its hands on all the serious studs
我们百姓什么都干不了 us laymen were just tiddlers
看 Look.
--管好你自己的老婆，给教士点蜡烛 Swive wives and uplighting churchmen --听他们胡说八道！ What's all this！ [kisses him] ahaha..
【差役】好个有趣的教士！ [Summoner] What a delightful priest！
你不爱听，就滚一边去！ You don't like it? Why don't you boil your bum！
他专门负责把人拖去法庭，是个差役 He hauls people off to court, a summoner by rank
听好了，谁知道苍蝇和修士有什么共同点？ Here, eh, what's a fly got in common with a friar?
不知道唉。。 I don't know, what's a friar...
他们都喜欢把嘴伸到你的饭碗里来！ They both got their snouts in your lunch!
我要讲个故事损损差役，看看谁还敢笑！ I'll tell a story and prove about summoners! Then we'll see who sniggers
好了好了，修士先生！如果大家不反对的话—— IF nobody minds, sir Friar?
这是我们的荣幸 --We be honored 谢谢！（打嗝声） --Thank you (burps)
很久很久以前，在亚瑟王统治的时候 Back in the good old days of King Arthur
世上处处都有精灵出没 There were spirits every where you looked.
如今到处都有修士，所以精灵们就遁形了 Nowadays we have all the friars going 'round they have all gone.
而在亚瑟王的宫廷里，有一个年富力强的单身骑士 Anyway, at King Arthur's Court, there was a strong, lusty knight bachelor.
有一天他独自一人纵马骑到河边 One day he was riding down by the river He was all alone.
看到了这个少女 And he saw this virgin lass...
当然，亚瑟王的宫廷里一片哗然 Of course, there was an absolute outcry.
亚瑟把骑士交给桂妮弗王妃处置 Arthur gave him over to Guinevere.
她将主宰骑士的命运 She should choose whether to spill his blood or save it.
如果你能回答我一个问题，便饶你一命 I'll spare you if can tell us.. [Ouch!]
女人最想得到的是什么？ what do women most desire?
说呀！骑士！ Knight, speak up!
答得出来，你的脖子就能躲过这柄斧子！ An answer to that will keep your neckbone safe from this hard iron!
我……我不知道 I....I....I..don't know..
那么要是你现在不能告诉我 I suppose if you can't tell us now..
我给你一年的时间，滚吧！ we'll let you have twelve months and a day, go!
他挨家挨户地去打探，期望得到回答 He went to every door and every town where he could hope to unearth the answer.
但每个人的答案都迥然不同 But everyone had a different idea.
能否告诉我，女人最想得到的是什么？ "Could you tell me what does a women most desire?"
呃，她的社会地位！ uh, her place in society!
乞丐，女人最想得到的是什么？ Beggar man, what do women most desire?
钱啊！ Money!
漂亮衣服 Fancy clothes!
（粗鲁地）女人需要好好招呼（互殴） (Gruffly)Very good seeing-to! (they fight)
他要回去的那一天终于到来了 The day had come that he must turn homeward
他的精神垮了，他的希望成了灰烬 his spirit was broken, his hopes bitter ashes.
他走到一处森林 His route took him to a forest;
那里他看到了24个舞蹈的仙女 and there he saw four-and-twenty dancing ladies. 或许她们会有答案！或许。。。 Maybe they'll have the answer! Maybe...
先生，此路不通！说吧，你要找什么？ No way through here, sir, tell us what you're looking for?
老妈妈，告诉我女人最想得到的是什么？ Mother! What do women most desire?
如果你告诉我，我会好好报答你的 If you can tell me, I'd make it worth your while.
那你向我发誓事成之后要答应我一件事 Give me your oath you'll do the very next thing I ask of you
日落之前你就能得到答案 and before sunset you'll have your answer
--我发誓！随便什么！ --你的命保住了。听好。。。 --My oath you have it! Anything! --You life is safe. Listen...
安静！嗯？ Silence! Well?
女王陛下，很显然…… My lady queen, apparently...
女人渴望占有丈夫和爱人 Women desire sovereignty over husband and lover
她们希望一直占据上风 They desire the upperhand of all times
好了随便你怎么处置我吧！ Now do with me as you will!!
现场没有一个人女人，或少女能出来反驳他 None of them, not wife, not virgin nor widow, could argue with that
他的性命保住了。 He had his life.
女王陛下！ Sovereign lady queen!
是我给他的答案！ I gave him that answer!
他答应应允我要求的第一件事作为报偿 In return he swore he'd do the first thing I asked
娶我做你的妻子！ Take me as your wife! (Roar of laughter)
想要的话拿走我所有的财产！ Take all my worldly goods if you must!
--放了我吧！ --Let my body alone! --我要做你的妻子 --I wanna be your wife...
和你的爱人 and your love!
--我的爱人！ --我的天哪！ --My love! --My damnation!
陛下！我这样的贵族难道要沦落到这等下场吗？ Sovereign! Should someone of my rank be brought so low?
Hm!
他没有选择，只能和她结婚 He had no choice but to marry her
把老女人带上了自己的床 To take the old woman into his bed!
可惜婚礼上常有的喜庆和欢宴 Alas for all the rejoicing and all the arrangements for the wedding feast
这里一点也见不到 There wasn't any
没有欢笑，没有宴席 No joy, no feast
在一个私下举行的仪式上他成了她的丈夫 He became her husband in a private ceremony
整天都像猫头鹰一样躲在家里 and spent the day hidden like an owl
亲爱的夫君 Darling husband~
亚瑟王的骑士难道都这么难取悦吗？ are all Arthur's knights so hard to please?
我救了你的性命！我哪点做的不对？ I saved your life! What have I done wrong?
OH(Groaning)!!
告诉我，说不定我可以改变 Tell me, I'll change.
改变！说得好听！你长得这么丑，地位又这么下贱！ Change! Wonderful change! You're so hideous, so old, and so common!
你要是对我稍微彬彬有礼点，我可以改变这一切 I could change all that only if you behaved a little more courteously to me.
你难道还对我不满？ Are you surprised at me?!
你说自己高贵。那是傲慢 Oh you talk of nobility. Arrogance.
高贵的人应该行高贵之事 The man who attempts the noblest deeds, he is the noblest man
可你会一直又老又丑 You'll always be old, always ugly!
那样的话你就不必担心有人挖墙脚了呀！ Then you need never fear a rival!
你有个选择。。。 You have a choice...
到底是要我做忠诚顺从的糟糠之妻 Plain and old but our faithful, obedient wife...
还是要我年轻貌美，每次有人来时都给你带来威胁 Or young and beautiful, and danger whenever friends visit our house
随便你吧！ Whatever you prefer.
啊！我把我自己交到你手上。 Aaaarh!! I put myself in your hands,
我的妻子，你想要的我都满意 whatever you want, my wife, pleases me!
那么，我到底有没有主动权呢？ Do I have the upper hand then?
是不是由我来作出所有的决定和选择？ Do I make all the choices? All decisions?
是的，那样最好。。。 That is best. --Yes.
好了，不必再争 No more arguments
我会变得既漂亮又忠诚。。看！ I will be beautiful and true...look at me!...
Kiss me..
May Christ send us all husbands meek and young and hard
and the grace to break them!
Humphrey, my mace and chain.
- Mount up, quickly! - No time.
Whoa.
Humphrey! Humphrey!
Help!
My hand's stuck!
Help me!
Humphrey!
Humphrey, get me the lance!
Here!
Now it's his turn.
Get my sword.
Here, after him!
Sir knight, let it not be said I have not been chivalrous.
Daggers!
Now that's just dirty.
Wait!
- Is he dead? - I think so.
You won't like this, sir knight.
But do it, and be swift.
I'm dying.
Take me back, will you?
To Lyonesse?
To Lyonesse.
Humphrey?
Humphrey!
Humphrey, where are you?
Good people of Lyonesse, your guardian is dying.
And in my last act as your defender...
I bring you my murderer.
Kill him!
No!
Take this ring, quickly, the stone inside your hand.
So long as you hide the stone, it will hide you.
Come on, take the ring, quickly!
Thank you.
Follow me.
Come.
Here. Sit down here.
Just uncover the stone.
I've always known that one day you would come.
I've always known that...
once within these walls...
you would be in sore peril of your life...
and I must use my ring to save you.
And then?
Gawain...
don't you know what land this is you've entered?
Lyonesse.
The lost land of Lyonesse.
No kingdom of your world, for Lyonesse is lost...
Iost in the wilderness of past dreams...
and ages yet to come.
This isn't such a bad place to be lost.
You're tired, and you must rest.
No. Just a moment.
Was that a dream?
No.
Linet?
Linet, where are you?
A fool? You dare call your mistress a fool?
But the entry to Lyonesse must not be left undefended.
I meant only that we must find a new guardian.
My lord was the greatest and bravest warrior...
that ever lived, and now he's dead.
There is no man his equal.
There's got to be one.
Your husband was a mighty champion.
But surely the one who overthrew him...
was, and is, even mightier.
I will not listen to you!
Your words are treason.
Please hear me out. I beg you.
We must seek out this knight who slew your husband.
The kingdom must have a guardian.
I'm beginning to understand now.
Yes, I see it clearly now.
That's why the knight has not been found.
You're hiding him, aren't you?
- Admit it! - No!
Oh, you do not understand.
I will have this pretty head of yours for this!
I am the knight you seek!
For her sake, I submit myself to your mercy.
Withdraw!
All is well here.
I fought your lord fairly.
I only wanted to enter Lyonesse.
I believe you mean what you say.
He is indeed a noble youth, huh?
Yes. I think he is.
Yes. Hmm?
Powerful shoulders.
A bit long in the flank, but well put together for all that.
There is good breeding here.
I wonder if his teeth are sound.
Spirited, too.
I like a touch of fire in a man, or beast.
Forgive me child, I misjudged your purpose.
I understand now that you sheltered this valiant knight...
for the highest of motives...
the welfare of our land of Lyonesse.
Yes, of course.
Who better to be the new guardian of the kingdom?
After all, he has already proved himself in battle.
And by the look of him, I can see him bring the same fire...
to the guardian's other duties.
I will call a meeting of the royal council tonight...
and then summon my bishops...
as soon as my lord is buried.
My lady...
forgive me for having broken into your mourning...
with my plans for Gawain.
Mourning? Why should I mourn?
My husband was a terrible man.
From our wedding night...
he turned to a most cruel tyrant.
And the drinking! And the wenching!
Oh! If only you could know how much I suffered...
all these years.
But now everything will be different.
There will be a new champion to protect the kingdom...
and be my husband.
Sweet mother of God.
What have I done?
I just wanted you to stay in Lyonesse.
But all I've done is harm.
For now you must go.
You don't want to come with me?
I do, but as I knew I must save you...
so I know now I must lose you again.
Not even the magic in my ring can alter this.
Listen to me, Linet.
We have love, and that's stronger than magic.
Only love can bend fate.
And I love you.
I've always loved you.
I think they want us to stay!
Let's go.
- Hold the man! - Quick! Over this way!
- There he is. - Go.
Go on.
Quickly!
This way!
Keep back!
- Linet! - Grab her! Come on!
- No! - No!
Help!
I'll be with you!
Let go! No! Let go!
Quick!
In there.
Good-bye.
Stay there!
Break it down!
- Come on! - Come on! Break in!
They...
They shall not leave the kingdom alive!
Hey!
There is the tower. I'm sure they won't find us.
Follow me.
- They're over there! - Another one?
Gawain, help!
- Where are you taking me? - To your execution.
Father! Father, help me!
- Please. - Take her away!
Linet! Linet, where are you?
There he is!
Wait for it!
- Gawain! - Linet!
Let's go!
- Join your friends! - Whoa!
Follow them!
There they are! Quick, after them!
Here we go again.
We haven't lost them.
There's no escape. It's a dead end.
My love, take the ring!
Good-bye, Gawain. Good-bye.
Linet?
Linet!
Morgan! Stop your meddling!
Meddling? I was only having a little fun.
You know Gawain and Linet weren't to meet yet.
Give him back.
You're spoiling my game.
And if I give him back...
what will you give me in return?
You have interfered with my game...
with your black deeds and trickery...
and now you dare to bargain with me?
No one bargains with the Green Knight! No one!
Hmm. Quite impressive.
But stay with me tonight...
and show me some better tricks.
- Please? - Well, we'll see.
Linet! Linet!
Now, where is the brave young knight...
who so readily accepted my challenge?
What?
The year half over, and still no answers to my riddle.
- It's impossible! - Of course it is.
The more you cheat, the harder it becomes.
Cheat? What do you mean?
You're not playing my game, Gawain.
You have a ring, and it does not belong to you.
But Linet gave it to me!
You shall not have it!
"Where life is gladness... emptiness"!
Hey, stop!
Wait!
You won't get much out of them, young man.
They've taken a vow of silence.
I do most of the talking for them...
as we wander around the land.
But where are we? Is this near Lyonesse?
Lyonesse?
My dear friend, nowhere is near this forsaken place.
Then she is gone...
and I'm lost.
It was gladness. Now emptiness.
You speak in riddles.
I'm trying to solve one.
Come, tell me about it, I beg you.
These brothers are boring company.
Day after day, not so much as a belch or a fart.
I'll catch them up.
Good friar, you seem a wise fellow.
What do you know of riddles?
Ha! Wise? Don't let these robes fool you.
I've been everything from a hopeless juggler...
to a rather accomplished pick-pocket.
But now I am too fat to run fast enough.
Ha! And who would think under my habit...
I have that very fine ring you had in your pocket.
You what?
Ah, it's in the blood. I can't stop myself.
You see these?
I relieved a certain Baron Fortinbras of their weight.
Nice, aren't they?
But really, riddles, I can't do.
I can't even do hopscotch right.
But I didn't say I couldn't help you.
A few miles back...
we passed the track leading to the Rock of Wisdom.
Tell the sage there your riddle.
- Thank you, friar. - You'll need this.
In exchange for these.
- What do you want? - I've come to see the sage.
I'm afraid the sage is busy.
Maybe another day.
Oh, really?
All right, all right. Maybe he's not that busy.
Come on.
What are you doing here?
Are you the sage?
Well, I've been called worse.
I'm trying to solve a riddle.
Riddles? All I ever hear is riddles.
I know all about your riddle, Sir Gawain.
All about it.
I can't be expected to keep my eye on everybody.
Pass me the bottle of hedgehog's spit, would you?
I'm not a nursemaid, you know.
The green one.
That's it.
- This is a terrible setback. - I don't understand.
You're not playing the game.
The Green Knight's game.
You know about the Green Knight?
Hmm. Of course I do.
What do you know of Linet?
All I know about Linet...
is you're supposed to leave Lyonesse with her.
I tried.
The castle just sort of left me.
Hmm. Where did you get that ring?
Linet gave it to me.
You realize what you've done, Gawain?
You're free. You're out of the game.
This is most irregular.
- Get me back. - Back?
Get me back to Linet.
You realize if I get you back...
if you return the ring... you must play the game.
You must stick to the rules.
Otherwise I can't help you.
I'm lost without her.
So be it.
Gawain...
are you prepared for all the journey entails?
Yes, I am.
Remember the game.
Gawain... hunting shadows of the night?
Back to Lyonesse you go, Gawain.
Back to Lyonesse we go, Gawain.
My lady.
Linet?
Linet!
I'm cold.
I'll get some wood.
I'll make you a fire.
- Humphrey! - Gawain!
Where have you been?
What happened to you? I tried to follow you.
You just seemed to disappear!
A maiden.
I'll have her.
But don't taint the goods, Oswald.
She should be worth a pretty... a very pretty ransom.
Help!
And next, you'll be telling me...
she's been waiting for just you all these ages.
I'll tell you, she is the most beautiful creature.
Hey!
Don't be a fool!
There's at least ten of them, probably more nearby.
Whoa.
Whoa, boy. Whoa.
Charming place.
- What do you think? - Now, how do we get in there?
We'll walk in.
Are those knaves the best you could find?
They were the only ones fit enough, my lord!
Then they'll have to do.
Stand proud!
For today you have joined the army...
of his most exalted highness the Baron Fortinbras!
We'll rescue Linet and get paid.
Hope she can swim.
Quiet, you!
Or I'll silence you forever!
She's mine.
I claim her by right.
By right of being the baron's son?
No. By conqueror's right.
I took her.
There's nothing more need be said.
Do not forget that it is I...
your father's seneschal, who is in charge...
of all things here while he is away.
She's not for you, nor for any man's touching...
until his return, and when he does return...
it may well be that he has his own ideas...
of what becomes of the maiden.
Tell me now...
are you bold enough to cross your father?
So now... will you help me?
I'll help you, sir. Count on me.
Yes, I'll help.
Me, I will.
That's the way I like to see you, lads!
Working!
Move it along like that.
Come across! Cut across! Go on, show him, lad!
- Put your back into it! - Gawain.
Come on, get in there!
Don't run away from it!
You...
you, with the fancy boots!
Don't you know how to use a sword better than that?
No. Show me.
You see...
a sword...
is three feet of tempered steel...
with death dancing along every inch...
and hanging like a dark star...
on the very point.
You don't wield it like a broomstick...
but so!
I was wrong.
You don't need any help from me.
I'll kill you.
I'll kill you!
Gawain!
Gawain, no! Don't!
Don't.
Gawain.
We'll see what kind of man you are.
Take him to the dungeons.
Another one for Oswald?
Oh. This one's special.
He gets the personal attention, eh?
Does your mother know you do this for a living?
You won't be laughing soon.
Comfortable?
We're going to have...
a little fun.
Just... just like before.
Only this time, I'm going to win.
And you... what's left of you...
will crawl slowly away.
You can scream if you want to...
and we have plenty of time.
And the rack is amply long enough, even for you.
I think...
Baron Fortinbras... he's come back.
He's already in the war room. He sends me to find you.
So we must postpone our little game.
Don't touch him until I get back.
I don't want to miss anything!
No, no.
Give him a rest.
He mustn't be tired for our next session.
Ahem. Don't waste your strength, my son.
Save it for killing the devils.
My wandering friar.
My young friend troubled with riddles.
Sir Gawain at your service.
Vosper.
A sadder, sorrier Vosper than the one you met last.
Oh, I don't know.
I really didn't like your friends much last time.
And what are you doing here?
Baron Fortinbras didn't take kindly to finding his gems gone.
And... God help me...
he remembered a certain large friar...
whose presence was not coincidental.
Now they have me here. They have not yet found the stones.
They shall be my reward when I get out.
Get out?
- I hope you paid for those. - Dearly, my son.
What's the plan?
Brigades, advance!
Guards, move up to the attack!
Masterly, masterly! Simply masterly!
Infantry up there! Infantry up there!
Father...
Cannon fire decimating some of the cavalry.
Father...
Advance, advance! Not now, I'm playing!
Advance! And finally, finally...
I take the castle!
But, oh...
oh, what appalling losses.
Particularly amongst our allies.
Father, I want... I wanted to...
Not... not now, my son.
I'm hungry!
Just don't tell me you had the key all along.
Shh. Let's go quietly, my son.
And the churl had the impudence...
to tell me that his arms are pledged to Bertilak!
Heh. So...
I cut off his arms...
and I sent them to Bertilak.
- Father... - Not now, Oswald.
You're spoiling my story.
My lord...
Sir Bertilak and his retinue have entered for parleys!
They're already within the gates!
Bid him enter.
Rats seem to like Fortinbras.
You jump down first, my son.
Then I'll show you a way out of this accursed place.
Come on, the sand'll break your fall.
Quick, hide!
Nah, nothing. Only the rats.
Quick.
It seems a shame to deprive them of such a feast as you.
That's kind of you, my friend. Come on, this way.
Ah, Sir Bertilak!
We are indeed honored by such a polished presence.
I didn't come here to dally with you!
This ceaseless raiding into my western provinces must stop.
From this day forward, my people must live in peace!
Your territory?
- The lands are mine! - Then it is war.
Done.
Sir Bertilak...
perhaps there is another way to settle our differences.
Wars, after all, are such a clumsy way to settle anything.
And so costly.
The last time I escaped from here, my son...
I was a slightly slimmer friar.
And lighter.
Sergeant!
Yeah? What do you want?
Here, sergeant, we were wondering...
is that your boy out there working with the horses?
Get the sword.
- Gawain, are you all right? - A bit taller.
Have you got everything? The boat? The crossbow?
Yes. We'll requisition it.
There's a crossbow.
- Hold onto the rope. - God's help, my son.
In exchange for this desolate wasteland...
we can offer a prize worth a dozen provinces.
It is a maiden...
so fair, she would set even the silvery moon to shame.
Gawain! Hey!
Come on, friar!
Well done, friar!
- God forgive me. - He will. Come on.
Get up!
Here, what's the password?
- Um, well... - My son...
How's that for a password?
Gawain!
You're drunk.
He's down there.
"Where life is emptiness, gladness.
"Where life is darkness, fire."
Gawain, you must eat.
Halfway through the riddle and nothing to live for.
I'm not going on, Humphrey.
Life wouldn't be the same without Linet.
But, Gawain...
I'm leaving.
Don't try to follow me.
I have to go my own way now.
No, don't.
Let him go.
Soon, my friend, soon.
We, like life and death, both ride the night.
Like the full moon, are doomed by morning's light.
If anyone's up there, let me in!
Please, please let me in!
- I'm coming! - Let me in, I say!
- Let me in! - Patience! Patience!
I'm coming! I'm coming!
Is it you who's calling?
Be off with you!
We have no truck with beggars at this court!
I'm not a beggar. I'm a knight.
I've traveled far, and I demand to see your lord at once.
You? A knight?
And you demand to see my lord, is it?
He's not so comical-minded as me.
He might not see the joke in it.
Well, the joke will be mine...
when I see you whipped for your insolence.
Oh, very well. Enter.
I'll go and awake my lord.
I hope this place is more real than Lyonesse.
Open those shutters there.
Forgive me for disturbing you.
I am Gawain, a knight of a noble court.
I have journeyed far and seek shelter.
Fellow knight, you shall have what you seek...
nor shall you need leave here...
until you are made fully well again.
Am I dreaming?
Or is it really you, Linet?
We are awake, and yet we dream on.
You, I thought were lost.
And I, you.
Sir Bertilak found me when I was in peril of my life.
Through the fire, he came to save me.
There had been so much horror.
And Oswald...
Sir Bertilak bought me out of my captivity.
So I was his, as his horse or his sword might be.
But he set me free...
and told me I may stay or go, as my heart bade me.
I chose to stay.
Like a sister might love a brother...
I came to love him, too.
It is nothing.
Get well. Think only of that.
This makes good seeing.
Linet must have tended you well...
for life is already coming back into you.
My borrowed year is ended.
Tomorrow, I ride out to meet the Green Knight.
But I'd hate to lose my head in this beautiful castle.
- Gawain, don't. - I have to face it.
I've only solved two lines of the riddle.
Two?
Look about you.
Isn't this all golden?
"Where life is golden, sorrow."
And this is the sorrow.
Take this sash, and no evil will befall you.
A remarkable man.
- You know where I ride. - We knew the day.
We have a score to settle.
Who is this knight? What quarrel have I with him?
He is my champion! He fights for me!
Well, gentle friends, one last good fight.
Caspar...
shoot him in the back.
Wrong back, Caspar.
Attack!
Forward into battle!
Into the fray!
Come on, lads!
Oswald will be mine!
Humphrey, behind you!
At last!
Gawain!
Gawain! Gawain!
Gawain! Look out, Gawain!
- To the death, Oswald. - One more for the dung heap.
Caspar! Shoot him!
Bowman, stop.
Leave the wretch to his miserable end.
It may be his last fight...
but at least let him fight it fairly.
That's that score settled.
Take me away.
Now there's just our score to settle, Gawain.
We have an appointment at the Green Chapel...
before the sun goes down.
Unless, of course, you've answered my riddle.
I have found emptiness and fire and sorrow...
but I have not found, "Where life is lost, wisdom."
There is no wisdom in the killing...
I have done this day.
Then you must pay your debt.
God be with you, my son.
When my time comes, I'm afraid I won't be asking you...
to join me in the place I'm going.
When we set out on this quest, we were as children.
All that seems a lifetime away.
Now I know that you are a true knight.
Farewell, dear friend.
I salute you, Sir Gawain.
- And I. - And I, my friend.
Come with me.
Welcome to my dwelling.
How time flies.
Twelve sweet, short months, and life is done.
Never fear, Gawain.
Clean and swift will be my blow.
Kneel.
Make yourself ready for your cut.
What? You who think yourself afraid of no man...
do you now flinch away from the axe?
Well, I didn't flinch away when you let fly with your blow...
but held as still as the grave.
- Yet, you tremble. - Just get it over.
I was a fool to ever play your game.
But as I played it, let's bring it to an end.
Strike and be done.
Ha! You've had your cut.
- The game is over. - What?
You tell me when my game is over?
I make the rules, boy! I make the rules!
Stop.
S-stay your sword.
The full circle of the year has turned.
Just as every green shoot of spring returns...
at last to the earth from which it woke to life...
so return I...
Now live on, Sir Gawain... live on.
"Where life is lost... wisdom."
I, too, lived a borrowed year.
It began with your act of valor before the Green Knight...
and now it is at an end.
You were right, Gawain.
Love can bend fate.
Not only love, but courage too.
Lyonesse...
where no traveler had ever passed before...
I must return.
The moment is here now...
as I knew it would be when we first met.
I will not leave you.
You must, Sir Gawain.
Touch my cheek, but do not be afraid.