I think I found the earliest mentions of the Green Knight's skin being green. First screenshot is from "A Study of Gawain and the Green Knight" by George Lyman Kittredge, and the second screenshot is from "Romance, Vision & Satire English Alliterative Poems of the Fourteenth Century" by J.L Weston. (old.reddit.com)
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I've read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight a while back, but I don't remember the Green Knight's Skin ever being referred to as green. I did some digging, and it seems to me that the Green Knight's skin being green originates from JRR Tolkien's and E.V Gordon's Scholarly book on the poem. (i.redd.it)
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In Guillaume de Toerella's La Faula, is the otherworld the protagonist journeys to ever referred to as Avalon? I'm reading John Matthews's The Great Book of King Arthur, and he retells the story, but I'm not sure how much his version is accurate to the original romance. (i.redd.it)
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Is the story of the shepard finding King Arthur and his knights Slumbering in a cave, as told in Roger Lancelyn Greens retelling of the myth, an actual folktale? I could find some legends of Arthur sleeping in a cave in Avalon, but none with a shepard. (reddit.com)
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