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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.
She is a widowed witch queen who hates Arthur due to his father killing her father and raping her mother. Morgause raises her children, known as the Orkney clan, to hate the Pendragons for the death of their father. She seduces Arthur through magic, siring Mordred. As in Malory, she is found in bed with Lamorak, but here it is Agravaine who ...
Uther was given a new family, including two brothers and their father. [11] The place of Gwalchmei's mother Gwyar's was taken by Anna, the wife of Loth, in Geoffrey's account, whilst Modredus was made into her second son (a status he did not have as Medraut in the Welsh material). [12] Morgan le Fay by W. H. Margetson (1914)
Mother of Mabon, in another folktale, she is the mother of Owain and Morvydd by Urien, Possible source for Morgan le Fay Mordred† Modred, (Welsh: Medrawd, Latin: Medraut) Annales Cambriae, c. 970 Many In some literature, Arthur's illegitimate son through Morgause (or Morgan le Fay), kills and is killed by Arthur Morgan le Fay
His son Mordred has been killed during a battle with the Saxons, leaving behind a pregnant wife. Uther blames Arthur, who was at the battle, for his son's death and banishes him to Armorica. His daughter-in-law, Princess Norwenna, gives birth to a son, whom Uther names Mordred after his father, and who he proclaims his heir.
The protagonists of the story are Mordred and his father the king, Arthur. Lost as a youth, Mordred is raised by fisherfolk until he is returned to his birth mother Morgause . The novel portrays Mordred as a pawn of fate unlike many tales which paint him as the villain of the Arthurian saga.
Mordred does share one notable trait with his mother Morgaine: he truly believes that he is a pawn of fate, with no real free will to choose his path in life. This is possibly due to the influence of the fatalistic Saxons. At one point, Mordred even lists his father's good qualities and admits that he admires Arthur in several ways.
The High King dismisses the sign and declares that the son will be named after his father: Mordred. The infant Mordred and his mother are brought to Merlin's hall at Ynys Wydryn, where she and the child are placed under the care of Merlin's priestesses, Morgan (Arthur's sister) and Nimue (Merlin's lover). Merlin himself has not been seen in ...