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Morgan Le Fey, Enemy of Arthur of Camelot, 90mm scale miniature.
Morgan Le Fey was most famous as the ultimate adversary to King Arthur
of Camelot. Morgan has had many character variations in these legendary
stories including as a Healer and an enchantress. Morgan Le Fey was the daughter
of Igraine and Gorlois and half-sister of Arthur. She was not
as some believe, the mother of Mordred (her sister Morgause was), the
man who destroyed Camelot. Morgan hated Arthur for his purity and plotted with
her lover, Sir Accolon, to steal both Excalibur and the British throne.
Her enmity towards Guinevere has its origin in the Vulgate Lancelot,
where Morgan is having an affair with Guiomar, Guinevere's cousin, and
Guinevere puts an end to it. Morgan gains her revenge by betraying the affair
between Guinevere and Lancelot to Arthur. Despite the motif of Morgan's
enmity towards Arthur and Guinevere, she is also presented as one of the women
who takes Arthur in a barge to Avalon to be healed after the battle with
Mordred at the Battle of Camlann.
With soft grey eyes she gloomed & glowered;
With soft red lips she sang a song:
What knight might gaze upon her face,
Nor fare along?
For all her looks were full of spells,
And all her words, of sorcery;
And in some way they seemed to say,
"Oh, come with me!
"Oh, come with me! oh, come with me!
Oh, come with me, my love, Sir Kay!"--
How should he know the witch, I trow,
Morgan le Fay?
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The figures are painted by experienced Irish artists and were designed by internationally
famous miniature designer Alan Dickinson. Also available as Antique and
Vibro Metallic versions.
Other figures in this range includes:
- Cuchulainn,
A mighty warrior, 'Hound of Ulster'.
- Emer,
lover of Cuchulainn.
- Etain,
Irish Queen wooed by a Fairy Prince.
- Queen Medb, Queen of Connaught, enemy of Cuchulainn.
- Branwen,
woman that was the centre of a war between Welsh and Irish clans.
- Boudicca,
Queen of the Iceni, lead a rebellion against Roman rule in Britain.
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