Recent scholarship of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Armitage) is emphasizing the genre of romance and how the famed romance is seemingly subverting the genre by challenging the chivalric moral (Pearsall, ”Enigma” 249). Whether Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Armitage) is actually celebrating or critiquing the chivalric ideal is still unclear, however. Subsequently, the more recent direction in scholarship of fourteenth century romance is highly interesting in regard to The Green Knight, the recent film adaptation of the romance by David Lowery, as the film is specifically referring to itself as a chivalric romance. When the depiction of chivalry in the film is compared to that in the romance, the three hundred year long trend of post-medieval Arthurian fiction transforming chivalry from a strictly aristocratic ideal (Coss 38) into a democratic ideal (Lupack & Lupack 3—32) is evidently clear. Additionally, the film might also be the first instance of a new direction in the modern version of the chivalric ideal. A thematic comparison of the depiction of chivalry in the romance and the film can also effectively be brought into the Swedish EFL classroom through the pedagogical model created by Anna Sofia Rossholm and the endeavor is well-aligned with both the general curriculum (National Agency for Education, Lgy11) and the specific syllabi for the course ”Engelska 7” (National Agency for Education).