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An ally of King Arthur. He first appears in pursuit of a strange beast (the “Questing Beast”), and later defeats and almost kills Arthur before Merlin reveals Arthur’s identity to him.
- Merlin
Merlin made the Round Table in tokening of roundness of the...
- Morgan Le Fay
A sorceress and Arthur ’s half-sister, who often attempts to...
- Sir Mordred
Sir Mordred Character Timeline in Le Morte d’Arthur. The...
- Sir Gawaine
A knight in Arthur ’s court, and nephew of Arthur. Gawaine...
- Sir Galahad
Son of Launcelot and Elaine of Corbin, destined to surpass...
- King Arthur
King Arthur Character Analysis. King Arthur. Next. Queen...
- Merlin
At the end of Le Morte d'Arthur, we are left with a few characters still standing. First, Sir Bedivere "swooned" and implores the church hermit, who is in actuality the former Bishop of...
Guided by visions, he goes to Almesbury, where he finds Guinevere dead. He buries her beside King Arthur, then sickens and dies himself. He is buried at Joyous Gard. Constantine reigns after Arthur, but the scant remnants of the Round Table are dispersed.
At the end of the day, Mordred is the only man of his army left standing, and Arthur has only two knights, Sir Lucan and Sir Bedivere. Against Sir Lucan's advice, Arthur fights Mordred and kills him, but he gets his own death wound as he does it.
Upon his return, Bedevere takes his dying king to a hermit; there, Arthur passes away and is. Sir Launcelot hears of both King Arthur’s and Sir Gawain’s death and comes to England. Upon arriving, he becomes a hermit and when Queen Guinevere passes away, she is buried alongside with her fallen king.
Le Morte d'Arthur (originally written as le morte Darthur; Anglo-Norman French for "The Death of Arthur") [1] is a 15th-century Middle English prose reworking by Sir Thomas Malory of tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table, along with their respective folklore. In order to tell a ...
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King Arthur Character Analysis. King Arthur. Next. Queen Guenever. The son of Uther and Igraine, and raised by Sir Ector, Arthur was always destined to pull an enchanted sword (Excalibur) out of the stone and prove his worthiness to be king.