Waite–Smith, Swords
Knight of Swords
What you can see
An armoured rider leans forward on a galloping horse, raising a sword into a sky of slanting clouds. Trees bend in the background.
What Waite says
Waite invokes the hero of chivalric romance, then gives both courage and destructive conflict among the meanings. The speed and weapon do not settle whether the capacity is used well.
Waite · Part III, §2 · printed p. 230 ↗In the Thoth deck
Waite’s courts are King, Queen, Knight and Page. Thoth has Knight, Queen, Prince and Princess, so a rank does not carry straight across. See both ways to match them.
Edition and image credits
Pamela Colman Smith, illustrations in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Rider 1922 reprint, first published 1910. The scans keep the printed borders and page marks, with no cropping or recolouring.