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	Arthurian Biographies: Ambrosius Aurelianus
		The much maligned Morgan Le Fay was, to a large extent, the invention of medieval romance writers such as Sir Thomas Malory.
		Morgan herself took a fancy to Lancelot at one point and imprisoned him for some time before he was able to escape.
		Morgan is said to have lived here with her nine sisters, a not insignificant group similar to the Greek Muses.
	www.britannia.com /history/biographies/morgan.html (758 words)

	Morgan le Fay: Origin and Evolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Morgan is said to be the daughter of Avallo or Avalloc; likewise, Modron is said to be the daughter of Avallach, (Darrah 79).
		Morgan’s hatred toward Guinevere primarily arrives from the fact that Guinevere separates Morgan from her lover Guiomar, whom is the cousin of Guinevere (Paton 13).
		One trait that Morgan displays in the prose Tristan that is not typical of the Vulgate cycle is the characteristic of a healer; however, she uses her healing abilities in order to gain the benefit of Alisander’s love, which is not typical of her role as a traditional healer.
	www2.hanover.edu /battles/arthur/morgan.htm (14866 words)

	Wikinfo \| Morgan le Fay
		Morgan le Fay, alternatively known as Morgaine, Morgain or Morgana and a slew of related nicknames, is an important female figure and sometime antagonist of Arthur and enemy of Guinevere in the mythology of King Arthur.
		Morgan was the daughter of Arthur's mother, the Lady Igraine and her first husband, Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall; thus her half-brother, the child of Uther Pendragon and Lady Igraine, was King Arthur.
		Morgan is the protagonist of Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon, and in recent years has been increasingly seen by feminist revisionists as the representation of the archetypical goddess element in Celtic mythology.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Morgan_le_Fay (563 words)

	Morgan Le Fay: Queen of Avalon. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Morgan Le Fay is Arthur's half sister, the daughter of Arthur's mother Igraine and her first husband, the Duke of Cornwall.
		Morgan Le Fay is and her nine sisters represent the divined natural order of the world similar to the way the Greek nymphs who were responsible for tree, bodies of water, and keeping the natural world in order.
		Morgan Le Fay was a fairy and has magical qualities, she could fly with wings and change shape.
	waltm.net /lefay2.htm (589 words)

	The Circle Cast: The Lost Years of Morgan le Fay by Alex Epstein (Book) in Literature & Fiction
		Accompanying Morgan on this harrowing trip across the sea are Eithne, her Irish nurse, Simon, the son of a soldier of Din Tagell, and her Greek tutor.
		Her loneliness is soon to end as Ciarnat’s tribe is vanquished in a battle with a neighboring tribe and Morgan is chosen as a slave for the eccentric “wise woman” of the conquering tribe.
		During the time spent in the Christian colony Morgan wrestles with her desire to become a good Christian, her desire for retribution and her lust for the young prince who is the son of the tribal king that owns the land the colony is living on.
	www.lulu.com /content/125112 (741 words)

	Morgan le Fay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Morgan who was an enchantress and shapeshifter, had a goddess like aspect and was known by the epithet "le Fay." A pupil of Merlin, and learned much of her magic from him.
		Morgan le Fay was represented as a dark goddess characterized by the powerful earthly qualities of winter and warfare.
		Morgan ruled a castle of maidens near Edinburgh and was goddess of an island called "the Fortunate Isle," "the Island of Apples," or more commonly known as Avalon where the 9 sisters lived.
	waltm.net /lefay.htm (131 words)

	Morgan Le Fay
		Morgan is introduced in Vita Merlini, as one of the nine sisters that ruled an island that is "an earthly Paradise" (Chambers 49), called Fortunate Isle, or the Isle of Apples.
		Morgan Le Fay was famed for her healing powers, and in Lawman, Arthur puts a lot of faith into her abilities as a healer.
		Morgan Le Fay was not married, but put to school in a nunnery, where she became a great mistress of magic"(Bradley, preface).
	www.delusional.com /morgan.php (2770 words)

	Legends of Arthur:Morgan Le Fay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Morgan le Fay is, in Malory's Morte d'Arthur Arthur's half sister, the daughter of Arthur's mother Igrain and her first husband, the Duke of Cornwall.
		Morgan is said to be the first of nine sisters who rule The Fortunate Isle or the Isle of Apples and is presented as a healer as well as a shape-changer.
		Sometimes she is conflated with Morgause and made to be the mother of Mordred, as is the case in John Boorman's movie Excalibur and a number of modern novels such as "The mists of Avalon".
	members.tripod.com /~Mooky_Bear/Morgan.html (340 words)

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		Morgan, Morgen, Morgana, Morgaine, Morgause, Morrigan, Morrigna, Morven, Morganwg, Morvenna, Morwenna, Mor Riorghain, Muirgen, Murgewn, Murgelt.
		Morgan le Fay oil, incense or powder: 9 apple seeds (for Avalon), yew (for Death), dragon’s blood (for Warriors), honey (for seduction), willow (for enchantment), mugwort (for prophecy), myrrh (for the dark moon), wormwood (for dark magic), emerald chip (for the faeries). Should always be either three or nine ingredients.
		Morgan: We are about to spiral between the worlds to a time that is not a time, a place that is not a place and a day that is not a day.
	www.susa-morgan-black.net /smb/Articles/morgan.html (1893 words)

	Morgan Le Fay
		In Monmouth's Vita Merlini, Morgan was the chief among her nine sisters: Moronoe, Mazoe, Gliten, Glitonea, Cliton, Tyronoe, and Thitis, and Morgause.
		In the The Vulgate Cycle (1215 to 1235) Morgan Le Fay is however married to Uriens.
		In the meantime Morgan would have slain her husband, confident of Accolon's success with Excalibur and the scabbard, but Uriens was saved at the last moment by the intervention of Uwaine, his son, by whom Morgan would herself have been slain had she not agreed to leave Camelot forever.
	www.arthurian-legend.com /more-about/more-about-arthur-8.php (1776 words)

	Amazon.com: I Am Morgan le Fay (Firebird): Books: Nancy Springer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Few see Morgan le Fay as what she is depicted as in Nancy Springer's version in which an innocent young girl meets her demise because of the evil actions of those around her.
		Morgan le Fay was a normal girl until she saw a man that looked exactly like her father go to bed with her mother Igraine.
		Morgan comes off as a very powerful character who you feel sorry for because a lot of things in her life were uncontrollable.
	www.amazon.com /I-Am-Morgan-Fay-Firebird/dp/0698119746 (2283 words)

	Refracted Light: I Am Morgan le Fay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The story is told in the first person, and Springer does a remarkable job at capturing Morgan's age in her narrative voice -- from the perspective of a 7-year-old, 12-year-old, and then a young woman.
		Although a book featuring as its heroine Morgan le Fay, the evil villainess of the Arthurian legends, sounds morally suspect in premise, the author does an impressive job at showing the evil of Morgan's choices and the fearsomeness of her actions, brought on by anger, bitterness, and wildness of spirit refusing to be tamed.
		Morgan is not necessarily a likeable person, but one may sympathize with her.
	www.pax-romana.net /refracted/iammorgan.html (442 words)

	Morgan le Fay
		Morgan’s status, lineage and loyalties are not as solidly set as other character’s are and her role as aid to Arthur evolves over time becoming a major antagonist to the king.
		Morgan, a noble matron, mistress and patroness of those regions, and also King Arthur's kinswoman by blood, brought Arthur to the island now called Glastonbury for the healing of his wounds after the Battle of Camlann.
		Morgan is no longer a learner of astronomy but of necromancy—Malory switches her from a study of helpful magics to a study of dark magics, an attempt to control the dead.
	www.csun.edu /~sk36711/WWW/engl630AL/reports/macon.htm (2020 words)

	Characters - Le Fay, Morgan
		Morgan and the other ascendeds saw the dangers to her kind by a weapon capable of destroying ascended beings, and when she eventually captured the Sangraal she hid it away on a world directly center to the alignment of planets Castiana, Sahal and Vagonbrei.
		When Vala asked that Morgan narrow the search by stating which planet where the weapon was hidden, Le Fay dematerialized -- pulled away by the others before she could answer.
		The Pegasus Project - Morgan reveals herself to Daniel, Vala and Weir, and shares the gate addresses to Castiana and Sahal before she is removed by the other Ancients.
	gateworld.net /omnipedia/characters/l/lefaymorgan.shtml (487 words)

	Morgan Le Fay (o)
		Morgan Le Fay is the daughter of Duke Gorlois of Tintagil and his wife, Ingraine.
		Morgan tried to kill Arthur and destroy Camelot many times, but she was always stopped by Merlin, King Arthur, the original Black Knight and the other knights of the round table.
		Morgan’s stone body was smashed, and Doctor Strange cast a spell to prevent her spirit from leaving the pieces.
	www.norse-man.net /Marvel/Char-M/MorganLeFay.htm (1014 words)

	Amazon.ca: I Am Morgan Le Fay: Books: Nancy Springer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Thus, Morgan's filial jealousyAand her fate as one of the "fey" or fairy realm (her mismatched eyes are a tip-off)Alead to her dark deeds.
		As she grows into a teenager, Morgan accepts the fact that she is a fay, one of the immortal demigods of legendary Britain.
		For Morgan le Fay means Morgan the fate, and this fated girl will have to live with the scars of her youth for the rest of her life, and be burdend with the infamous power that brought her those scars.
	www.amazon.ca /Am-Morgan-Fay-Nancy-Springer/dp/0698119746 (1522 words)

	Morgan le Fay
		Morgan is most often associated with Arthur as his half-sister, daughter of Gorlois and Igraine.
		The idea that Morgan was typically the plotter of King Arthur's death might equate her with the Morrigan and suggest a name change but....
		This is all food for thought and I will always consider Morgan le Fey not as the evil queen of Malory but as one aspect of the triple goddess that comes to take Arthur for healing in Avalon.
	www.celtic-twilight.com /camelot/infopedia/m/morgan_le_fay.htm (606 words)

	MORGAN LE FAY: TEXTS, IMAGES, BASIC INFORMATION
		Morgan le Fay is, in Malory's Morte d'Arthur, Arthur's half sister, the daughter of Arthur's mother Igraine and her first husband, the Duke of Cornwall.
		Morgan is also said to be the wife of King Uriens and the mother of Yvain or Ywain.
		Morgan rarely appears in post-medieval works--until the twentieth century when there is a renewed interest in her character.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/morgmenu.htm (580 words)

	Morgan le Fay
		Comparison of Welsh and non-Welsh Arthurian matter show her to be somewhat identified with Modron and ultimately with the river goddess Matrona, similar to and possibly derived from the Irish goddess Morrigan.
		Morgan is essentially the sole personage of Avalon, the Isle of Apples.
		Morgan necessarily becomes a witch to explain her sexuality.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/m/morgan_le_fay.html (568 words)

	Morgan le Fay (Camelot, Avengers, Spider-Woman foe)
		Morgan Le Fay is said to be the daughter of Gorlois, Duke of Tintagil and of his wife, Igraine, who also bore King Uther Pendragon the son who became the legendary King of Camelot.
		Morgan believed that Jessica had absorbed enough of the elder god’s magic to be able to give Morgan the power she sought from the Darkhold.
		Morgan’s unusual hair color and her vast potential as a sorceress are both traits due to her faerie descent.
	www.marvunapp.com /Appendix2/morganlefay.htm (11788 words)

	Morgan Le Fay
		Morgan Le Fay (the Faerie) is said to have been King Arthur's half sister.
		Morgan was said to have married Urien of Gore and, according to Torquato Tasso, mother of three daughters Morganetta, Nivetta, and Carvilia (and also the son Ywain).
		Morgan was a Priestess of the Old Ways (and some say a fae) and was said to have been one of three to bore the body of the slain King Arthur to Avalon where she lived.
	members.fortunecity.com /rowansterling/morgan.html (722 words)

	Morgan le Fay, from Lundy, Isle of Avalon by Mystic Realms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Morgan ('Born of the Sea') le Fay is first mentioned, as Arthur's elder half sister by Cretien de Troyes.
		Morgan is one of the Ladies of the Lake
		Morgan le Fay wed (King) Urien, and gave birth to a son, Ivaine (,Owain, Owein, Ewayne); who thus enjoyed the high status of being Arthur's sister's son.
	www.lundyisleofavalon.co.uk /arthur/morgan.htm (835 words)

	Mystical-WWW - The Arthurian A 2 Z listing M
		Le Morte d'Arthur, written in English, which is believed to have been completed in c.AD1478, and is considered to be of the highest romantic prose that draws together the various strands of history, or legend depending on your point of view, to provide a literary unity to known French Arthurian romance of this period.
		Reputed to be the daughter of 'Affallach of the Otherworld', and therefore known to be a shape-shifter and a mistress of the arcane.
		It has been suggested that perhaps the development of Morgan's muses was influenced by the Norse myths that told of the handmaidens of 'Odin, God of the Dead' (See Odin), known as the 'Valkyries', travelling to 'Valhalla' and awaiting the arrival of the heroes.
	www.mystical-www.co.uk /arthuriana2z/m.htm (6496 words)

	Morgan Le Fay
		Morgan also gave her name to the mermaids of Brittany called Maries Morgan or Morganes and the mermaids of Wales called Morgen.
		In the legend of Sir Lancelot of the Lake, Morgan appears as a vicious hag, but in the story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, she was an imposing crone and remained in the background until she was revealed as 'Morgan the goddess'.
		Her chief fortress was Mongibel in England, and she was the mistress of a castle full of beautiful but wicked fairy servants near Edinburgh, called the castle of the Maidens.
	faerie.monstrous.com /morgan_le_fay.htm (592 words)

	Morgan le Fay
		In this painting, she is creating a magical cloak which is intended to burn its wearer to cinders, with the intention of sending it to Arthur: Malory tells this story in Book IV, chapter 16.
		Her name is Morgan and she had learned what the use is of every kind of plant in curing the weaknesses of the body.
		Morgan has been connected to various Celtic deities: the Morrigan are Irish battle deities; Modron is a divine mother; Macha is an Irish goddess of war, life, and death.
	faculty.arts.ubc.ca /sechard/344morg.htm (824 words)

	Morgan Le Fay - Arthurian Myth and Legend
		Morgan was King Arthur's half-sister and in some versions of the story she is said to be the mistress of Sir Accolon of Gaul.
		Morgan Le Fay's paradoxical nature is reflected in her dual role as both healer and dark magician, as Arthur's thorn in life, yet also his guardian in death.
		Morgan Le Fay, cowled in fl, consults her book of magic crafts, to heal the wounds of the "undead" king.
	www.mythicalrealm.com /legends/morgan_le_fay.html (586 words)

	EnchantedTails Morgan Le Fay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Morgan Le Fay is two generations from the Asian Leopard Cat (Amur).
		Morgan has the same sweet, sweet temperament as her mother, Katerina, her father, Jagger, and her older brother from the same breeding, Paddington Bear.
		Morgan Le Fay has had many different roles in literature.
	enchanted-tails.com /MorganLeFay.htm (421 words)

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