I guess it's true that you don't get many reviews over here. I was looking for something based off of Gerald Morris' work and I found this. I love it. You have real talent. It may seem late to say this, but you should have considered stretching it out a bit.

Oh, I like this very much! I'm not good at short stories myself, so I admire those that are so well told.

You portray Sir Gawain wonderfully here, and of course I love Martin and his father. Lovely!
God bless,
Galadriel

Two things:

All forests in England were property of the King. If you weren't royalty or a high-born nobleman, it was trespassing and poaching to hunt there. If a knight found a peasant boy in the King's forest, he would not just be nice to him, because the boy would be a criminal. If the boy and his family are landowners, and he's hunting in his own forest, since he's not rich enough to have servants to hunt instead of him, it would not be enough land to have the game needed to support him.

Now, the knighting. Someone may only be knighted if they are the son of a knight, or do something of great service to the king or of great valour. A squabble over a horse, and the boy stabbing his attacker in self-defence, doesn't fulfil any of those requirements. He has none of the knight's training in chivalry or arms, and if he WAS to be knighted, he'd have to go through a day of prayer and other ceremony before he could be knighted. The exception to this is when time is pressing, e.g. on the battlefield.

Your writing is very easy to read, and commendable considering the other stories in this section (some of them are just awful) but I'd say the two things you need to work on are historical accuracy and original characterization. They weren't *stereotypes*, but your characters (and Gawain) were bland.

Even so, keep writing, you seem to be the kind of person who could improve quickly at the things I've mentioned.