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The Lady of the Lake and Sir Bedivere

The Lady of the Lake is a character of Arthurian legend. Different writers give her different names. Her roles include giving King Arthur his sword, Excalibur, taking Arthur to Camelot after the Battle of Camlann, raising Lancelot after the death of his father, and of enchanting Merlin. She is called Nimue, Viviane, Elaine, Niniane, Nyneve or Nimueh, amongst others.

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  • Arthur-Pyle The Lady of ye Lake

    Nimue in Howard Pyle's illustration for The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (1903)

  • Edward Burne-Jones Witches Tree (Flower Book)

    Viviane with Merlin in Witches' Tree by Edward Burne-Jones (1905)

  • Ballads of bravery (1877) (14785021975)

    The gift of the sword Excalibur in an illustration for George Melville Baker's Ballads of Bravery (1877)

  • Look! - said the Lady Nimue - ye ought to be sore ashamed to be the death of such a knight!

    "'Look!', said the Lady Nimue, 'Ye ought to be sore ashamed to be the death of such a knight!'" William Henry Margetson's illustration for Janet MacDonald Clark's Legends of King Arthur and His Knights (1914)

  • Cutler King Arthur Passing

    The Passing of Arthur in Andrew Lang's Stories of King Arthur and His Knights (1904)

  • Tryfan and Llyn Ogwen - geograph.org.uk - 1264952

    Llyn Ogwen as seen from the slopes of Pen yr Ole Wen in 2008

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