5:15

“I’m not quite sure how we solemnise this— ”

Our Lady,

The Demons of The Punjab

515 is the exact height of The Washington Monument, in feet —

But that isn’t ALL it is...

It’s an invocation of GRACE to Seal (Solemnise) a MARRIAGE.

Marriages are sealed by VOWS

A Vow (I like an Oath) has three components —

Three 5s are 15

“And Whatever I Tell You 3 Times is TRUE.”

He has re-drawn according to his own faith his ideal of knighthood, making it Christian knighthood, showing that the grace and beauty of its courtesy (which he admires) derive from the Divine generosity and grace, Heavenly Courtesy, of which Mary is the supreme creation: The Queen of Courtesy, as he calls her in Pearl. 

This he exhibits symbolically in mathematical perfection in the Pentangle, which he sets on Gawain’s shield instead of the heraldic lion or eagle found in other romances. 

But while in Pearl he enlarged his vision of his dead daughter among the blessed to an allegory of the Divine generosity, in Sir Gawain he has given life to his ideal by showing it incarnate in a living person, modified by his individual character, so that we can see a man trying to work the ideal out, see its weaknesses (or man’s weaknesses).