Arthurian Legend

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Uther Pendragon ..............................

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King Arthur’s father

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Duchess Igraine (Ygerna) ................

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King Arthur’s mother

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Merlin ...............................................

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Old Celtic magician and seer who helped Arthur and served as his counselor

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Excalibur (Caliburn) .........................

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Arthur’s sword, sometimes said to have been pulled from a block of stone

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Lady of the Lake or Vivian ...............

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Enchantress who in another story gives Arthur this sword as a replacement after his sword breaks in battle

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Camelot* ..........................................

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Arthur’s favorite castle, site of his court

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Round Table**..................................

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Arthur’s possession kept at the court and designed so as to symbolize the equality of the knights or to prevent petty jealousy over their seating arrangement

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Tintagel.............................................

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Castle in Cornwall said to be Arthur’s birthplace

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Guenevere (Guinevere) ....................

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Beautiful princess whom Arthur married

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Sir Launcelot (Lancelot) ..................

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Guinevere’s lover, the most famous, most romantic, and bravest of the Knights of the Round Table

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Sir Galahad.......................................

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Lancelot and Elaine’s son, the purest and most virtuous of the knights of the Round Table, who was successful in his quest for the Holy Grail and has come to symbolize any person considered very pure and noble

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Siege Perilous (Perilous Seat) ........

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Empty seat taken by Galahad at the Round Table, one that was especially reserved for the purest knight

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Holy Grail (Sangreal)*** .................

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Cup or chalice used by Jesus at the Last Supper and sought by the Knights of the Round Table

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Joseph of Arimathea ........................

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Galahad’s forefather, who supposedly carried the Holy Grail from Palestine to Great Britain

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Morgan le Fay ..................................

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“Sea-borne fairy,” Igraine’s daughter and Arthur’s sister, who in Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur is represented as an evil fairy or enchantress who tries to kill him

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Fata Morgana ...................................

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Italian phrase now used metaphorically to designate any mirage but originally designating a mirage sometimes seen off the coast of Sicily near the Strait of Messina and named for Morgan le Fay

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Modred (Mordred) ............................

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Arthur’s son or nephew, the knight whom he killed in battle just before dying himself

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Isle of Avalon....................................

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Island paradise called “The Isle of Apples” where King Arthur was taken after the last battle

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Fisher King .......................................

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In the legends of the Holy Grail, the keeper of the chalice and of the relics associated with it

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Wasteland.........................................

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Barren land that according to legend is the dominion of the Fisher King

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T.S. Eliot ...........................................

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Author whose 1922 poem The Waste Land in 5 sections includes the Fisher King

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Gawain..............................................

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“Courteous” knight of the Round Table, who was killed at Dover during the battle between Arthur and Modred

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Green Knight.....................................

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Common name for Bercilak de Hautdesert, the giant of a knight who challenged Arthur’s knights to a beheading contest, and was beheaded by Gawain, who hit first

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Tristram.............................................

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Legendary medieval knight who defeats the giant Morholt (Morold) in battle, is sent to Ireland to recuperate, and is healed by the Queen of Ireland and her daughter

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Iseult (Isolde) ...................................

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Irish princess who helps her mother heal the wound of Tristram’s medieval knight