Comparing Antonius Block from The Seventh Seal and Sir Gawain from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, how do they relate in terms of Chivalry? How are they similar and how are they different?

Chivalry is generally understood as a strict moral, social and religious code that was followed by knights and noblemen in the middle ages. In the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, we see the chivalry of Sir Gawain put to the test. First the Green Knight challenges him to cut off the Knight's head, then he tells Gawain to come to him in a year's time when the Knight will return the blow. Gawain accepts both challenges, and during his journey to meet with the Knight, is further tested when the wife of the lord who shelters him tries to seduce him. The final test is whether he can yield to the Green Knight's axe without flinching, in which he succeeds. In Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal, ideas around chivalry are less explicit. Antonius Block challenges Death to a game of chess in order to delay his demise, not because he is afraid of dying, but because he wishes to accomplish one meaningful act. Block spends the rest of the film searching for this meaningful act, eventually finding it in helping and sheltering the afflicted souls he meets on his journey. If chivalry is understood as a moral code, Block achieves it through being able to empathise with the people around him. Unlike Gawain he is not bound by ideas of duty, being more interested in giving his death meaning.