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Which Witch?
Descended from Celtic goddesses and the fairies of folklore, the literary character of Morgan le Fay has been most commonly perceived as a witch and a one-dimensional villainess who plagues King Arthur and his court, rather than recognized as the legendary King's enchanted healer and otherworldly guardian. Too often the complexity of Morgan le Fay and her supernatural abilities are lost, her character neglected as peripheral. As a literary figure of imaginative design this thesis explores Morgan le Fay as a unique "window" into the medieval mindset, whereby one can recover both medieval understandings of magic and female magicians. By analyzing her role in key sources from the twelfth to fifteenth century, this thesis uses Morgan le Fay to recover nuanced perceptions of the supernatural in medieval England that embraced the ambiguity of a pagan past and remained insulated from continental constructions of demonic witchcraft.
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British Legendary Characters
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 149. Chapters: Arthurian characters, King Arthur, Merlin, Joseph of Arimathea, Mabon ap Modron, Magnus Maximus, Ambrosius Aurelianus, Prester John, Uther Pendragon, Constantine III, Guinevere, Cynric of Wessex, Gildas, Prince Valiant, Vortigern, Taliesin, Igraine, Saint Mungo, Olwen, Culhwch, Ysbaddaden, Black Knight, Bran the Blessed, List of Merlin characters, Green Knight, List of Arthurian characters, Etrigan the Demon, Peredur, Characters in Disney's The Sword in the Stone, Shining Knight, Morgan le Fay, List of legendary kings of Britain, Cadoc, Fisher ...
The Life of Merlin, Vita Merlini
Vita Merlini, or The Life of Merlin, is a work by the Norman-Welsh author Geoffrey of Monmouth, composed in Latin around AD 1150. It retells incidents from the life of the Brythonic seer Merlin, and is based on traditional material about him. Merlin is described as a prophet in the text. There are a number of episodes in which he loses his mind and lives in the wilderness like a wild animal, like Nebuchadnezzar in the Book of Daniel. It is also the first work to describe the Arthurian sorceress Morgan le Fay, as Morgen. Geoffrey had written of Merlin in his two previous works, the Prophetiae Merlini, purported to be a series of prophecies from the sage, and the Historia Regum Britanniae, whi...
