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"Until he saw Gawain | It seemed a tedious time, | He gladly came when called, | His due reward to claim."
So the lord is really into Gawain. And kissing Gawain.

Supposedly this poem is about the seduction of Gawain, but so far he seems veeery willing and participating

"He takes the other's strong neck in his arms, | and kisses him as pleasantly as he could devise."
There's a lot of casual kissing in this poem, between all genders, and, since it doesn't specify otherwise, I assume it is on the mouth.
I don't know enough about casual kissing in medieval times to comment on this.

And here we are granted a how-to guide to skinning and dismembering a deer.
With lots of alliteration.

"There he was stripped, with joking remarks" So a group of men just stands around Gawain as he is stripped and talks about how pretty he is, "so shinning and attractive under his clothes" "a handsomer knight God never made"

"an ogrish man"? It's been clearly specified that the Green Knight is very attractive so why suddenly ogrish? The Middle English says "alvisch" so wouldn't "elvish man" fit better?

And just in case you missed it the first time, it is stressed yet again that the Green Knight is super attractive and also dresses nicely and have long pretty hair

It's very important that the reader knows that the Green Knight was "attractive" and "both his belly and waist were becomingly trim, and every part of his body equally elegant in shape." I feel like there should be added a 'wink wink' after that line

"Breccia has never - nor you either - done a deed so bold and daring with his decorated blade - I would never boast of it!" Pretty sure this was just proceeded by 145 lines of boasting, Beowulf.

Unferth: "I heard you lost a swimming contest bc you're a loser."
Beowulf: "Excuse you I battled 9 sea monsters and washed up on a different shore than the other guy."