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  • Essay / Comparison of Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    In Sir Gawain, the Pentangle is also a reference to the virgin Mary and her five stages with Jesus. “There is great significance in the fact that the events in this poem occur in multiples of three. Three times Gawain is tempted by the lovely lady,… The Green Knight swings three times towards Gawain… The meaning of all these three is that Christianity teaches the trilogy: the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit… The fact that the events unfold in count of three explains the… poet trying to connect this story and this passage to the Bible and biblical events” (Parkins). In Beowulf, the kingdom of the Geats was Christian and they prayed to God during the difficult and constant battle against the demon. Beowulf also mentioned that Jesus is Lord and