Bertilak de Hautdesert

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Bertilak de Hautdesert is the lord who hosts Sir Gawain and secretly serves as the enchanted Green Knight in the Middle English romance "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."


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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
knight
literary character
nobleman
alias Green Knight
appearsIn Middle English romance
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
associatedWith Camelot
associatedWithTheme Christian morality
courtly love
temptation
truth and deception
conducts beheading game
employer Morgan le Fay
enchantedBy Morgan le Fay
finalAction spares Sir Gawain’s life
genreOfWork Arthurian romance
hasSecretIdentity Green Knight
languageOfWork Middle English
moralFunction reveals Gawain’s human fallibility
notableFor green complexion as Green Knight
moral testing of chivalry
supernatural resilience
offers hospitality to Sir Gawain
participatesIn exchange-of-winnings game
relatedToCharacter King Arthur
Lady Bertilak
Morgan le Fay
Sir Gawain
residesIn Hautdesert
roleInWork Green Knight
antagonist
host of Sir Gawain
serves Morgan le Fay
setIn Arthurian Britain
spouse Lady Bertilak
symbolizes challenge to courtly civilization
nature and the wild
tests Sir Gawain
testsQuality chivalric honor
courtesy
loyalty
truthfulness
testsVirtueOf Sir Gawain
timeOfWork late 14th century
title Lord of Hautdesert
transformedInto Green Knight
workAuthor Gawain Poet
Pearl Poet


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