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Pertolope
Sir Pertolope, the Green Knight. One of the four brothers who
kept the passages to Castle Perilous. He was overthrown by Sir
Gareth. Tennyson calls him “Evening Star,” or
“Hesperus.”— Le
Morte d'Arthur By Sir Thomas Malory
“For there, beyond a bridge of treble bow,
All in a rose-red from the west, and all
Naked it seem’d, and glowing in the broad,
Deep-dimpled current underneath, the knight
That named himself the Star of Evening, stood,
And Gareth, ‘Wherefore waits the madman there
Naked in open dayshine?’ ‘Nay,’ she cried,
‘Not naked, only wrapt in harden’d skins
That fit him like his own; and so ye cleave
His armor off him, these will turn the blade.’”
Idylls of
the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Gareth
and Lynette.
"Anon the knights, Sir Perseant, Sir Perimones, and Sir Pertolope, whom Sir Gareth had overthrown, went to King Arthur’s court with all the knights who did them service, and told the king they had been conquered by a knight of his named Beaumains." The Legends of King Arthur And His Knights By Sir James Knowles.
"And Sir Arnold, and Sir Gauter, knights of the castle, encountered with Sir Brandiles and Sir Kay, and these four knights encountered mightily, and brake their spears to their hands. Then came Sir Pertolope from the castle, and there encountered with him Sir Lionel, and there Sir Pertolope the green knight smote down Sir Lionel, brother to Sir Launcelot." A Connecticut Yankee by Mark Twain. Chapter IX
