The two men agree that de Hautdesert will trade the prize from his hunt for whatever Gawain receives at the castle. The Lord's lady resembles Essel she makes seductive overtures toward Gawain. They reach a castle inhabited by Lord Bertilak de Hautdesert, who informs him that the Green Chapel is nearby, and Gawain accepts his invitation to stay. Gawain befriends a fox who accompanies him on his journey. He finds her skull and unites it with her skeletal remains and the next morning finds the axe has been returned to him. He asks what he will receive in return but is rebuffed. He is awakened by a young woman named Winifred, who asks Gawain to retrieve something that she's lost, from a nearby spring. At nightfall, Gawain arrives at an abandoned cottage and falls asleep in its bed. He crawls to his sword and uses it to cut the ropes binding his hands and then he pursues them. Shortly afterwards, the boy and two others ambush Gawain and steal the axe, girdle and horse, leaving Gawain tied up. The boy directs Gawain to a stream that leads to the Green Chapel, and asks for payment. On his journey, he crosses a battlefield littered with dead warriors, where he meets a scavenging boy. She says that as long as he wears it, he shall suffer no harm. Gawain departs on horseback for the Green Chapel he takes the green axe and he wears a green girdle given to him by his mother. Gawain revels all year Arthur reminds him to uphold his side of the challenge. The Knight rises and retrieves his severed head, repeats the requisite date to Gawain and rides away. The Knight yields and Gawain, wielding Excalibur, decapitates him. He barges into Arthur's court and states that any knight who lands a blow on him will win his green axe but must travel to the Green Chapel and receive an equal blow in return on the following Christmas. Elsewhere, in a tower, le Fay performs a magic rite which summons the mysterious Green Knight. Gawain attends a feast at the Round Table with his uncle King Arthur, who invites Gawain to sit at his right hand. He returns to Camelot, where he is scolded by his mother (she is not named, but is implied to be Morgan le Fay). On Christmas morning, Gawain is awakened in a brothel by his lover, a common woman named Essel.
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