Description of The Green Chapel

The poet describes it as a low, smooth mound covered with grass, with openings at the ends and the sides, indicating that it is oblong. This description makes the Green Chapel sound like a barrow, an ancient grave mound, which has been emptied of it contents, so that it looks to Gawain like nothing but an old cave.

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"the sandy walls seemed to collapse in on themselves"

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"the bloodshot waters seemed to have no bottom"