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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 ...
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
Names in medieval languages Name meaning and/or identification Notes Laganess, Saga Ness Old Norse: Láganes, Old Norse: á nesi Ságu: In Völsunga saga called Láganes instead of á nesi Ságu that appears in Helgakvíða Hundingsbana I. [119] Lágr (as in Láganes) means "low", [209] whereas Sága (as in á nesi Ságu) was the name of a ...
"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. [36] Artorius itself is of obscure and contested etymology. [37]
The dwarf Alberich (with whip) drives on the Nibelung dwarfs, who collect gold and other treasures. (Arthur Rackham, 1910)The term Nibelung or Niflungr is a personal or clan name with several competing and contradictory uses in Germanic heroic 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 ...
The Lady of the Lake (French: Dame du Lac, Demoiselle du Lac, Welsh: Arglwyddes y Llyn, Cornish: Arlodhes an Lynn, Breton: Itron al Lenn, Italian: Dama del Lago) is a title used by multiple characters in the Matter of Britain, the body of medieval literature and mythology associated with the legend of King Arthur.