The Green Knight is a heroic character of the Matter of Britain, originating in the 14th-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the related medieval work The Greene Knight. His true name is
A painting from the original manuscript of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The Green Knight is seated on the horse, holding up his severed head in his right hand.
The Green Knight preparing to battle Sir Beaumains in N. C. Wyeth's illustration for Sidney Lanier's The Boy's King Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's History of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (1922)
Michael Pacher's painting of a green Devil with Saint Augustine in 1475. Poetic contemporaries such as Chaucer also made associations between the colour green and the devil, causing scholars to make similar associations in readings of the Green Knight.
Morgan le Fay, alternatively known as Morgana, Morgain, Morgant, Morgne, Morgayn, Morgein, and Morgue among other names and spellings, is a powerful and ambiguous enchantress from the legend of King A
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…Cornwall, again with the name "Bredbeddle". In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Bertilak is transformed into the Green Knight of around half-giant size by Morgan le Fay, a traditional adversary of King Arthur, to test his court. However, in The Greene Knight, he is transformed by a different woman for the same purpose…
Morgan le Fay by Frederick Sandys
A detail of The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon by Edward Burne-Jones (1898), showing Morgan (with her sisters) in her initial literary portrayal and role from Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12th-century poem Vita Merlini
Morgan le Fay by Edward Burne-Jones (1862)
Henry Fuseli's Prince Arthur and the Fairy Queen (c. 1788)