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The narrative opens with a reference to Troy and Aeneas and establishes Felix Brutus’s relationship with Aeneas and with Brutus’s as the “founder” of Britain. Why is this important? By framing the central plot of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight with an account of Britain's founding by the Trojan Brutus, the poet establishes Camelot's political legitimacy. What is the symbolic meaning of the holly twig? Why such an elaborate description of the Green Knight? The knight's green costume and the holly twig holds in one hand symbolize