There is a great movie adaptation of this called The Green Knight, give it a watch its amazing. It's not entirely accurate down to the sentences bc it's an adaptation but its so good and really elevates the source material!!

The skipper's reference to the Frozen Sea and the battle between the Arimaspians and the Nephelibates references classical mythology and historical accounts. "The Arimaspians and Nephelibates were mythical tribes mentioned by ancient Greek historians like Herodotus and Pliny the Elder, believed to inhabit regions near the Caucasus Mountains" (Steiner). By alluding to these tribes, Rabelais is inviting readers to connect his narrative with ancient mythological themes which adds depth to his stories.

Steiner, Grundy. “The Skepticism of the Elder Pliny.” The Classical Weekly, vol. 48, no. 10, 1955, pp. 137–43. JSTOR, doi.org/10.2307/4343682https://www.jstor.org/stable/4343682.

The concept of frozen words melting and becoming audible as the weather warms serves as a metaphor for the cyclical nature of history. (Of Horns and Words). Just as these words emerge from the ice to be heard, echoes of the past resurface to impact the present, illustrating how history continually shapes our understanding of the world.

Of Horns and Words: A Reading of Rabelais’s Signs - ProQuest. www.proquest.com/openview/8815d9ddcd8c1239b5b4f6f2e87cfe83/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1816663.

Morgan appears at Castle Hautdesert as an old woman in the company of the Lady of the castle. Morgan has a position of honor at Hautdesert, sitting at the high table, but her relationship to Bertilak and his lady is unclear. "Her appearance as an ugly hag could be related to the mythical archetype of the wise crone, part of the triad of maid-mother-crone, a feminine representation of the cycles of life" (Donnelly). The poet's description of the beautiful young woman and the ugly old one reflects standard medieval rhetoric.

Donnelly, Colleen. “Blame, Silence, and Power: Perceiving Women in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” Colleen Donnelly - Mediaevalia (Philosophy Documentation Center), 1 July 2003, www.pdcnet.org/mediaevalia/content/mediaevalia_2003_0024_0279_0297.

In the original Arabic translation, which is not clarified in the English translation, the author is listing the different names of God, not just attributes. Allah has 99 names, all in Arabic, some of which are translated into this list. It is said by scholars that, " These names are of great importance in the life of the Muslim, so whoever knows the names of Allah Almighty and their meanings and believes in them, his faith is more complete and better than those who did not know those names and do not understand their meanings, and that they have a profound impact and influence on the life of a Muslim" (Omar). So, the way it's utilized here would probably go unnoticed due to cultural, linguistic, and religious differences.

Omar, Saad Fathalla. The Names of Allah: Their Importance and Impact on the Muslim Individual (Nodal Study). 2020, www.iasj.net/iasj/article/182756.

This is in reference to Medea by Euripides, when Jason calls Medea, "Tigress, not woman, beast of wilder breath Than Skylla shrieking o’er the Tuscan sea" (Euripides, lines 1341-1343). He says this after he finds out she killed their children over revenge. The man in this scene is referencing this line as an insult to the women inside the Acropolis by comparing them to Euripides characterization of Medea: barbaric, immoral, corrupt (Schein).

1. Cato, Farrah. “Medea, Euripides.” Pressbooks, 10 Jan. 2022, pressbooks.online.ucf.edu/lit2110fc/chapter/medea.
2. Schein, Seth L. Philia in Euripides’ Medea. 1 Apr. 1990, escholarship.org/uc/item/24j654sp.

Dhritirashtra in this story is the son of King Vichitravirya and Queen Ambika. He was born blind so he was unable to inherit his fathers throne so his younger brother Pandu becomes king. Other than the practical implications his blindness has for the story's progressions, him being blind is symbolic of his inability to see truth and make unprejudiced judgements throughout the story (Karpaha, pg. 59)

1. Karpaha, Mrs N., A. SelvaBalaji, and MDS Prof Dr D. Nagarathinam. "Drishti from Mahabharata." Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow Volume 20: 10 October 2020 ISSN 1930-2940 (2020): 59.