One Christmas in the court of Camelot, the spectral sight of the Green Knight storms into the great hall, amidst a feast. He challenges any Knight to chop of his head and in one year allow the same to happen to him. It is but the young voice of Sir Gawain who accepts the challenge, chopping off the head of the Green Knight, who merely places his back. A year later Sir Gawain goes on a perilous journey of hunger, chills and temptation to repay his debt.
The Green Knight is such an interesting creation and this is how I imagine him. I, along with many artists, imagine him as a wild man, perhaps due to his perculiar colour. His beard represents something natural like a tree, willow or a bush, like his fur coat. The pattern on his coat was inspired by William Morris and other pre-Raphaelite artists, since the 19th Century saw the return of the Arthurian Legends.
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