Question:
Anyone into the Arthurian legend?
Forgotten
2009-01-06 03:38:24 UTC
I need passages that describe or are an introduction to each of these characters and place, just one for each and it doesn't have to be long, a sentence will do. I do need to know the source, no source no 10 points. Like from what book or website.

I already googled it and I didn't find anything useful, so I was hoping anyone that's into the legend would have books and could provide me with what I'm looking for =)


King Arthur

Guinevere

Merlin

Lady of the Lake

Morgan Le Fay

Lancelot

Excalibur

Camelot

Thanks in advance.
Seven answers:
Jallan
2009-01-06 17:18:01 UTC
Just go to Christopher Bruce’s Arthurian dictionary at http://www.celtic-twilight.com/camelot/bruce_dictionary/index.htm . This will give you more accurate information than people who have mostly or only read modern novels and seen modern films. It is not entirely free of error, but far less absurd than the answers you have been getting.



Morgain la Fay is not Mordred’s mother in ANY medieval story.



Making her Mordred's mother is an invention of modern novelists. “The Mists of Avalon'' is a novel which uses some medieval Arthurian traditions and the inventions of the author. But so are other modern novels.



For Mordred's begetting in the medieval romances, see http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/yosqfr.htm, line 90 and following, for one version. See http://members.terracom.net/~dorothea/baladro/Chapter18.html and http://members.terracom.net/~dorothea/baladro/Chapter19.html for the Post-Vulgate version. In the “History of the Holy Grail” we are told:



“And the king fathered him [Mordred] with his sister one night, when he thought he was laying with the beautiful woman from Ireland. When he recognized his sister and realized he had lain with her, both of them were grief-stricken and repented."



The stories in each case differ, but the sister is the mother of Gawain, and is not Morgaine la Fay who is never connected to Mordred, except as one of his aunts. Indeed in some tales Morgaine is not even Arthur’s sister. For example, in the story of Huon of Boudeaux, Morgaine is the the mother of the fairy king Auberon by the famous Julius Caesar. In the “Perceforest” Morgaine lives in Britain long before even the Roman invasion. In Robert de Boron’s “Merlin”, Morgaine is the bastard daughter of the Duke of Tintagel, and therefore only Arthur step-sister, not his half-sister.



In earlier tales Mordred is simply Arthur’s nephew and Gawain’s full brother. That Mordred was really Arthur's son and therefore only a half-brother to Gawain first appears in the “Prose Lancelot” , but no details are given about how he was begotten, save that Arthur had a dream of a dragon following the begetting.



The Lady of the Lake is the woman who betrayed Merlin and raised Lancelot as a child, and has nothing whatsoever to do with the fay who gave Arthur his sword in the “Post-Vulgate Merlin''. Malory, in retelling the story, alone calls this fay the “Lady of the Lake”, but since she dies soon after, even in Malory she is not identified or confused with the main Lady of the Lake whom Malory also introduces.



That Merlin is a druid is another modern invention.



Camelot is only one of many cities in which King Arthur held court in various romances.



Medieval accounts are mostly as much inventions as are modern novels. But they are at least the accounts on which modern novels claim to be based, though often falsely. Modern novelists have the same right and liberty as medieval writers to invent and modify. And their readers have the same right to believe that what they read is “true”. But they don’t have the right to declare, without source, that particular inventions are the “original accounts” without being opposed.



If you want to indicate something from a modern novel, then you should cite that novel directly. And the same for medieval works as often they also do not agree with one another.
Froth on a Daydream
2009-01-06 06:16:19 UTC
Person above,

most of your descriptions are correct, but Morgan Le Fay's isn't , and this is because you used "Mists of Avalon" as a source.-great book by the way. "The Mists Of Avalon"series is not part of the arthurian circle tales, it is based on them, and it is M.Z.Bradley's view of the whole story. Therefore, Morgaine(or Morgan Le Fay) did know who Arthur was when she slept with him, she did it on purpose in order to give birth to Mordred and gain power over Arthur and the crown, in the"original'' story!





EDIT: That's strange, Jallan, I am almost sure that I recently read a collection of medieval arthurian tales published by Oxford that had a story about how Morgan Le Fay seduced Arthur in order to gove birth to Mordred! Must. Search. Thank you for pointing that out!
anonymous
2014-09-15 22:44:56 UTC
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lago
2016-10-07 02:40:37 UTC
ok, i think of i will steer you interior the superb direction. Arthur (possibly Artos) became a real king who lived throughout the time of the decline of the Roman holdings in England interior the 1st centuries advert (possibly around 3 hundred). He became an excellent armed forces chief and held back the Saxon invaders, so it incredibly isn't any ask your self thoughts of him survived. the long-lasting natrue isn't any doubt because of the fact he got here from somewhat humble beginings (because of the fact the foster son of a minor nobleman) and grew to unite many of the small kingdoms in England as one among those Over-king. no one had achieved that previously. He fought super battles and controlled to usher in a quick era of peace. All very romantic, and those styles of information final. the subsequent pert of your question additionally pertains to the durable nature of the story. The revivals of the story are no longer incredibly tied to any historic era in my opinion. Europe became an greater and greater Christian place, and the climate of Arthur's "deadly flaws: could have resonated at any time. it incredibly is possibly that the time sessions the story became revived in straight forward terms coincided with them being remodeled and printed. Geoffry of Monmouth isn't any doubt one among the early revivalists. T.H White is a lot greater present day, yet those are seen 2 of the seminal works. thoughts of magic and secret have constantly been common. they have been around because of the fact the 1st days of information. there's a undeniable resonance with the reason Arthur became doomed. He, allegedly, had intercourse with a sister or a cousin (unknowingly). yet even even with the incontrovertible fact that this act became "harmless" so some distance because it went, God has to punish him. So it is not in basic terms a tale of magic, it incredibly is a morality tale. in case you seem up any references or comments of the Monmouth, or greater helpful yet, The as quickly as and destiny King by ability of T.H White, or maybe The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by ability of Steinbeck, you will get greater effective than you ever mandatory to nicely known. :) stable luck!!
anonymous
2009-01-06 04:08:16 UTC
King Arthur - illegitimate son of King Uther and Lady Igraine, destined to be the king of Britain. Fostered by Sir Ector as a boy, he pulled a sword from a stone to be recognised as the rightful king.



Guinevere - King Arthur's queen, who loved both Arthur and his best friend and champion Lancelot, and had an affair with him which led to war, and the destruction of Camelot



Merlin - the druid advisor of King Uther, who helped magically disguise him as Igraine's husband Gorlois, so he could father Arthur. Later he was Arthur's advisor.



Lady of the Lake - mysterious lady who appeared from the water of a lake and gave Arthur his sword Excalibur



Morgan Le Fay - Arthur's half-sister by his mother Igraine and her husband Gorlois. She was an enchantress who slept with Arthur without him knowing she was his sister (due to him being fostered). They had a son, Mordred.



Lancelot - Arthur's champion and best friend who had an affair with Arthur's wife, Guinevere.



Excalibur - Arthur's sword, given to him by the Lady of the Lake. Had a magical scabbard which protected Arthur from injury



Camelot - the place where Arthur ruled from and had his famous Round Table. A legendary place of good knights and heroes
anonymous
2009-01-06 07:10:08 UTC
look here

http://omacl.org/genre.html

they have several Arthurian legends from the medieval period
anonymous
2009-01-06 03:44:32 UTC
im not into arthur, but i was in ur mom last night. nehehe


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