Green Knight Green Knight The Green Knight is a character of the 14th-century Arthurian poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and the related medieval work "The Greene Knight". His true name is revealed to be Bertilak de Hautdesert (an alternate spelling in some translations is "Bercilak" or "Bernlak") in "Sir Gawain", while "The Greene Knight" names him "Bredbeddle". The Green Knight later features as one of Arthur's greatest champions in the fragmentary ballad "King Arthur and King Cornwall", again with the name "Bredbeddle". In "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", Bercilak is transformed into the Green Knight by Morgan le Fay,
The Legend of King Arthur The Legend of King Arthur The Legend of King Arthur is a British television fantasy serial, produced by the BBC in association with Time-Life Television and the Australian Broadcasting Commission, and broadcast on BBC 1 in 1979. Earnestly historicist, the production design of the show was of the heroic age, "ca. A.D." 500, like the HTV production "Arthur of the Britons" (1972–3). However, the tragic storyline of this BBC version kept closer faith with the chivalric romance of "Le Morte d'Arthur". The Arthurian scholar Norris J. Lacy opines: ""The Legend of King Arthur" has the leisure to depict the legend