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First Named in "King Arthur Meets Lady Guinevere" Howard Pyle One of Three Sons of King Pellinore, one of the original 32 Knights of the Round Table Ector† Hector, Antor, Ectorius Lancelot-Grail, early 13th century The Once and Future King, Le Morte d'Arthur: Raises Arthur according to Merlin's command, father to Sir Kay: Edern ap Nudd
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 ...
"Arturus rex" (King Arthur), a 1493 illustration from an early printed book, the Nuremberg Chronicle. The origin of the Welsh name "Arthur" remains a matter of debate. The most widely accepted etymology derives it from the Roman nomen gentile (family name) Artorius. [38] Artorius itself is of obscure and contested etymology. [39]
The king asleep in mountain (D 1960.2 in Stith Thompson's motif index system) [1] is a prominent folklore trope found in many folktales and legends. Thompson termed it as the Kyffhäuser type. [2] Some other designations are king in the mountain, king under the mountain, sleeping hero, or Bergentrückung ("mountain rapture").
However, there are indications that Möttuls saga may have been one of the earliest Arthurian texts translated into Old Norse. The saga begins with an extended introductory section, not present in the French text, that describes King Arthur. [6] Such an introduction would have been necessary for an audience unfamiliar with the Arthur legend.
Mordred or Modred (/ ˈ m ɔːr d r ɛ d / or / ˈ m oʊ d r ɛ d /; Welsh: Medraut or Medrawt) is a major figure in the legend of King Arthur.The earliest known mention of a possibly historical Medraut is in the Welsh chronicle Annales Cambriae, wherein he and Arthur are ambiguously associated with the Battle of Camlann in a brief entry for the year 537.
The first of the three lands the Greenland Norse found in North America. According to a footnote in Arthur Middleton Reeves 's The Norse Discovery of America (1906), "the whole of the northern coast of America, west of Greenland, was called by the ancient Icelandic geographers Helluland it Mikla , or "Great Helluland"; and the island of ...
Arthur the Tank Engine, a character from Thomas and Friends; Ser Arthur Dayne, a character from A Song of Ice and Fire book series; Arthur Denison, the main character of the Dinotopia book series; Arthur Dent, the main character of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series; Arthur Dupres, a character in the American TV miniseries V (1983 ...