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Persaunt
Phosphorus, a knight called by Tennyson “Morning Star,” but, in Le Morte d'Arthur, “Sir Persaunt of India, or the Blue Knight.” One of the four brothers who kept the passages to Castle Perilous. Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (“Gareth and Lynette”); Le Morte d'Arthur By Sir Thomas Malory
"...Sir Marrok, the good knight that was betrayed with his wife, for she made him seven year a wer-wolf, Sir Persaunt, Sir Pertilope, his brother, that was called the Green Knight, and Sir Perimones, brother to them both, that was called the Red Knight, that Sir Gareth won when he was called Beaumains. All these hundred knights and ten searched Sir Urre’s wounds by the commandment of King Arthur." Le Morte d'Arthur By Sir Thomas Malory. Book XIX
It is evidently a blunder to call the Blue Knight
“Morning Star,” and the Green Knight “Evening
Star.” In the old romance, the combat with the “Green
Knight,” is at dawn, and with the “Blue Knight”
at nightfall. The error arose from not bearing in mind that our
forefathers began the day with the preceding eve, and ended it at
sunset.
