Morgan le Fay facts for kids

Morgan le Fay by Edward Burne-Jones (1862)

Morgan le Fay is a powerful sorceress in the Arthurian legend. She was King Arthur’s half-sister and enemy. Morgan le Fay is said to have been quite powerful, she hated King Arthur even as he was her half-brother. She was known to have been fairly powerful (She is also said to have wiped out most of the Templar Knights). She is as well one of the main antagonist's of the Grey Griffins book series.

Images for kids

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  Morgan with Lancelot under an apple tree in a Siedlęcin Tower fresco (early 14th century)

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  Henry Fuseli's Prince Arthur and the Fairy Queen (c. 1788)

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  Frank William Warwick's Voyage of King Arthur and Morgan le Fay to the Isle of Avalon (1888)

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  Morgan Le Fay by John R. Spencer Stanhope (1880)

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  William Henry Margetson's illustration for The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights (1908) "She was known to have studied magic while she was being brought up in the nunnery."

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  Queen Morgan le Fay, Beatrice Clay's illustration from Stories of King Arthur and the Round Table (1905) "There was a time when great was her enmity towards King Arthur, so that she plotted his ruin not once only nor twice; and that is a strange thing, for it is said that she herself was the kinswoman of the King."

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  Morgan le Fay Casts Away Excalibur's Scabbard, H. J. Ford's illustration for Andrew Lang's Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table (1902)

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  Howard Pyle's illustration from The Story of the Champions of the Round Table (1905) "She was clad in all the glory at her command, and her appearance was so shining and radiant that when she came into that room Sir Launcelot knew not whether it was a vision his eyes beheld or whether she was a creature of flesh and blood."

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  "How Morgain granted Lancelot a leave from her prison to conquer Dolereuse Gard." (Lancelot en prose c. 1494 or later)

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  How Morgan le Fay Gave a Shield to Sir Tristram by Aubrey Beardsley (1870)

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  A detail of La Mort d'Arthur (The Death of Arthur) by James Archer (1860)

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  Morgan and Accolon in Eric Pape's illustration for Madison Cawein's poem "Accolon of Gaul" (1907). "With haughty, wicked eyes and lovely face, Studied him steadily a little space."

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  Howard Pyle's illustration from The Story of the Grail and the Passing of King Arthur (1909) "And Sir Bedivere stood upon the shore and looked upon the face of King Arthur as it lay within the lap of Queen Morgana, and he beheld that the face of King Arthur was white like to the ashes of wood, wherefore he wist that he was dead."

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  Morte D'Arthur by Daniel Maclise (1857)

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

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  How the Fairies Came to See Ogier the Dane by H.J. Ford (1921) "And, in tones more musical than mortals often hear, she sang a sweet lullaby, a song of fairyland and of the island of Avalon, where the souls of heroes dwell."

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  Beatrice Clay, Morgan le Fay with Excalibur (1905)

See also

In Spanish: Morgana para niños