Lady Bertilak (or Lady Hautdesert) are names given by some modern critics to a character in the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (14th century), though the poem itself only ever calls her "the lady".[1] She is ordered by her husband, Sir Bertilak de Hautdesert, alias the Green Knight, to test Sir Gawain's purity.
- ^ Brewer, Derek (1997). "Some names". In Brewer, Derek; Gibson, Jonathan (eds.). A Companion to the Gawain-Poet. Arthurian Studies, 38. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer. p. 195. ISBN 9780859915298. Retrieved 1 March 2023.