Green Knight
Verdant Arthurian antagonist
The Green Knight is a supernatural figure from medieval Arthurian legend, appearing most famously in the 14th-century poem *Sir Gawain and the Green Knight*.
He arrives at Camelot with green skin, green clothing, and a green horse, challenging knights to a beheading game that tests their honor and courage.
The character embodies ideas of nature, mortality, and moral testing, and has been adapted in modern literature and film.
- ArthurianOf Camelot's mythology
- Arthurian legendBritish medieval king mythology
- beheadingRemoval of head
- axeBladed tool for chopping
- chapelSmall worship room
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