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marasop:

My Avalon Girl

Morgana le Fay, from The Mists of Avalon

She is the main character from Marion Zimmer Bradley’s namesake book (one of my favourite), the king Arthur’s half sister being prepared to become the new Lady of the Lake.

In the legend:

Morgana le Fay (Morgan le Faye, Morgane, Morgaine, Morgana and other names) is a powerful sorceress in the Arthurian legend. Early works featuring Morgana do not elaborate her character beyond her role as a fay or magician. She became much more prominent in the later cyclical prose works such as the Lancelot-Grail and the Post-Vulgate Cycle, in which she becomes an antagonist to King Arthur and Queen Guinevere.

Morgana is said to be the daughter of Arthur’s mother, the Lady Igraine, and her first husband, Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall, so that Arthur (son of Igraine and Uther Pendragon) is her half-brother. She has at least two elder sisters, Elaine and Morgause, the latter of whom is the mother of Gawain and the traitor Mordred.

In Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur and elsewhere, she is married, unhappily, to King Urien of Gore and Ywain is her son. The early accounts of Geoffrey of Monmouth and Gerald of Wales refer to Morgana in conjunction with the Isle of Apples (later Avalon) to which the fatally wounded Arthur was carried.

To the former, she was an enchantress, one of nine sisters; to the latter, she was the ruler and patroness of an area near Glastonbury and a close blood-relation of King Arthur. In the early romances of Chrétien de Troyes, she also figures as a healer.

In later stories, Morgana becomes an adversary of the Round Table when Guinevere discovers her adultery with one of her husband’s knights, though she eventually reconciles with her brother and even retains her original role, serving as one of the four enchantresses who carry him to Avalon after his final Battle of Camlann.

c. end of 5th century

by mara sop

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