Matter of Britain Figure
Morgan le Fay
- Summary
- In the Vita Merlini she is a benign healer, chief of nine sisters on the Isle of Apples, who receives the wounded Arthur. The prose cycles turn her into Arthur's malevolent half-sister and Guinevere's enemy. Her demotion from healer to villain over roughly a century is one of the clearest ideological shifts in the whole tradition.
- Kind
- legendary
Worldviews
Geoffrey's Pseudohistory, Malory's Fellowship and Its Fall, Revival, Screen and Afterlife
Provenance
- Source method
- Web research
- Review status
- DRAFT
- Confidence
- HIGH