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Morgan le Fay (/ ˈ m ɔːr ɡ ən l ə ˈ f eɪ /; Welsh and Cornish: Morgen; with le Fay being garbled French la Fée, thus meaning 'Morgan the Fairy'), alternatively known as Morgan[n]a, Morgain[a/e], Morgant[e], Morg[a]ne, Morgayn[e], Morgein[e], and Morgue[in] among other names and spellings, is a powerful and ambiguous enchantress from the legend of King Arthur, in which most often she ...
Sorceress, half-sister and sometime antagonist of Arthur, and (in some traditions) mother of Mordred: Morgause: Anna Historia Regum Britanniae, c. 1136 The Once and Future King, many others Arthur's half-sister, wife to King Lot, mother to Gawain, Agravaine, Gaheris, and Gareth, and in some traditions, also the mother of Mordred: Morgan Tud ...
Arthur's another sister or half-sister, known by several names including Morgause, a daughter of Gorlois and Igerna (Igraine), replaced Anna in the romances as mother of Gawain and Mordred. She and Morgan may be also joined by a third half-sister, today best known as Elaine .
Yvain's mother is often said to be King Arthur's half-sister, making him Arthur's nephew. This sister is Morgan in the Post-Vulgate Cycle and Le Morte d'Arthur (causing Yvain to be banished from the court of Camelot after Morgan's attempts on Arthur's life), but other works name another of their siblings, such as Queen Brimesent in the Vulgate ...
The corresponding character in Geoffrey of Monmouth's early-12th-century Norman-Welsh chronicle Historia Regum Britanniae is named Anna, who is depicted as the sole daughter of Uther Pendragon and his wife Igraine, thus making her Arthur's full (younger) sister. She is the wife of King Lot and the mother of Gawain and presumably also Mordred ...
She is a sister to Morgan and Morgause and a half-sister to Arthur. [3] Elaine marries King Nentres of Garlot [4] and has a son named Galeschin, who becomes a Knight of the Round Table, and a daughter also named Elaine. The form Elaine (Elayne) was invented by Le Morte d'Arthur author Thomas Malory and without an identifying moniker "of
In Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, Accolon is referred to as Sir Accolon of Gaul. [1] He is the object of desire for Morgan le Fay, King Arthur's half-sister. (As described in Accolon's original story in the Post-Vulgate Suite de Merlin that was Malory's source: "She loved him so madly that she desired to kill her husband [King Urien] and her brother [King Arthur], for she thought she could ...
Merlin's apprentice in chivalric romances is often Arthur's half-sister, Morgan le Fay, who is sometimes depicted as Merlin's lover [79] and sometimes as just his unrequited love interest. [note 12] In the Prophéties de Merlin, he also tutors Sebile, two other witch queens, and the Lady of the Isle of Avalon (Dama di Isola do Vallone).