The King and all they of the castle come to meet him with right great
joy, but when they see the young man dead, their great joy is turned
into right great dole thereby. And Messire Gawain alighteth before the
castle and presenteth to the King his son and the head of the Giant.
"Certes," said he, "might I have presented him to you on live, much
more joyful should I have been thereof."
"This believe I well," saith the King, "Howbeit, of so much as you have
done am I well pleased, and your guerdon shall you have."
And he looketh at his son and lamenteth him right sweetly, and all they
of the castle after him. Thereafter he maketh light a great show of
torches in the midst of the city, and causeth a great fire to be made,
and his son be set thereon in a brazen vessel all full of water, and
maketh him be cooked and sodden over this fire, and maketh the Giant's
head be hanged at the gate.