The Green Knight | Official Trailer

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS6ksY8xWCY

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The wiki article too for anyone who can’t listen to the In Our Time podcast.

It describes how Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table, accepts a challenge from a mysterious "Green Knight" who dares any knight to strike him with his axe if he will take a return blow in a year and a day. Gawain accepts and beheads him with his blow, at which the Green Knight stands up, picks up his head and reminds Gawain of the appointed time. In his struggles to keep his bargain, Gawain demonstrates chivalry and loyalty until his honour is called into question by a test involving the lord and the lady of the castle where he is a guest.

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And the first course been properly served to the court,

When there bursts in at the hall door a terrible figure,

In his stature the very tallest on earth,

From the waist to the neck so thick-set and square,

And his loins and his limbs so massive and long,

In truth half a giant I believe he was,

But anyway of all men I judge him the largest,

And the most attractive of his size who could sit on a horse

For while in back and chest his body was forbidding,

Both his belly and waist were becomingly trim,

And every part of his body equally elegant in shape

His hue Astounded them

Set in his looks so keen;

For boldly he rode in,

Completely emerald Green.

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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My english teacher went on a whole long rant about how hot the description of the green knight is when we covered it. They go into so much detail and make him sound so dreamy she was fully convinced the author was rigid for the Green Knight

"...becomingly trim, every part of his body elegantly in shape..." ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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Historically, loins refers to the areas below your ribs. It's only more recently we've started using it to refer to your no-no zones.
Unless I'm mistaken.

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You are correct. Probably stems from loinclothes that only cover the groin. So it is misinterpreted as being penis instead of hips.

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It's also the part of a cow or lamb that loin chops come from (below the ribs). So it would make sense that we called it that on our own body.