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- ACHEFLOUR: Arthurian
legend name of King Arthur's
sister, meaning "white flower."
- ANGHARAD:
Welsh Arthurian legend name of a love of Peredur
in the Mabinogion, meaning "more love."
In some versions of the story the lovers first meet at King Arthur's court.
- ANGHARAT:
Variant of Welsh Angharad,
meaning "more love."
- AVALON: "Island of apples."
Probably derived from Celtic abal or Welsh afal, meaning "apple." Name of the
legendary island somewhere in the British Isles, where the body of King Arthur
is said to be buried, having been brought there by his half-sister
Morgan le Fay,
and where he is supposed to one day return.
- AVARON:
Variant of Avalon, meaning
"island of apples."
- AVILON:
Variant of Avalon,
meaning "island of apples."
- BELAKANE: In
the German epic poem, Parzival, this is the name
of Percival's stepmother, an African queen and mother of
Feirefiz, Percival's mulatto half-brother.
- BLANCHEFLEUR:
Variant of Blancheflour.
- BLANCHEFLOR:
Variant of Blancheflour.
- BLANCHEFLOUR:
"White flower." Arthurian legend name from French Flores and Blancheflour, a popular
romantic poem from the Middle Ages. She was Tristan's mother,
known as the "white flower" of the House of Cornwall.
She was the daughter
of King Felix, sister of
King Mark of
Cornwall, mother
of Sir Tristan, and wife to Rivalen, Lord of Armenye. She died
giving birth to her son.
- BRANGAINE: Name of
a servant from the legend of Isolde who is
rescued by Palamedes just before he joins Arthur's
Round Table.
- BRANWEN:
"Fair raven." Welsh Arthurian legend name of the
daughter of Llyr in the Mabinogion.
Sometimes considered a goddess of love and
beauty. The name is composed of the Welsh elements bran
"raven" and gwen "fair, white."
- CLARISSANT:
Arthurian legend name of Gawain's long-lost sister in Chretien de Troyes's Perceval,
the Story of the Grail.
- CONDWIRAMURS: Arthurian
legend name
of Percival's wife in the German poem Parzival.
- CUNDRIE:
Arthurian legend name from the
German poem Parzival in which she is a messenger of the
Grail who condemns Percival.
- DINDRANE:
Arthurian legend name of the Grail Maiden and sister of Percival.
She was a major character in many of the Holy Grail
stories.
- ELAINE:
Old French form of Helen, meaning
"torch" or "moon" or more likely "to elope." Because most Arthurian legend names are of Celtic origin, some
etymologists believe that the name Elaine may originally have derived from a Welsh element
meaning "fawn, hind."
- ELAINE of ASTOLAT:
Daughter of Bernard of Astolat. Famous as a figure of
unrequited love.
In Malory's Morte D'Arthur (Death of Arthur),
she dies of grief when
Lancelot
cannot
return her love. She is also known as Elaine the Fair and
Elaine the White.
- ELAINE of BENOIC:
Sister of Evaine, wife of King
Ban, and mother of Lancelot.
- ELAINE of CARBONEK:
"The Grail Maiden." Daughter of Pelles, the
Fisher
King. Sometimes confused with Elaine the
Peerless. Her
father was prophesied to be the grandfather of the bearer of
the Holy
Grail.
- ELAINE of GARLOT:
Daughter of Gorlois and
Igraine, sister of Morgan le
Fay and Morgause, and half-sister of
King
Arthur. She is wife of
King Nentres and mother of Galeshin who later becomes a
Knight of the Round
Table.
- ELAINE the PEERLESS:
Niece of the Lord of the Fens and wife of Persides the Red
of the Castle of Gazevilte.
- ENID:
Welsh Arthurian legend name of Geraint's
wife, meaning "purity" or "soul."
- ENIDE:
Variant of Enid.
- ETTARD:
Arthurian legend name of the insensitive lover of Pelleas.
- ETTARE:
Variant of Ettard, name of a lover
of Pelleas.
- ETTARRE:
Variant of Ettard,
name of a lover of Pelleas.
- GANIEDA: In Welsh
legend, this is the name of Merlin's sister.
- GUINEVERE:
French form of
Welsh Gwenhwyvar, meaning "white and
smooth." This is the name of the queen
consort of King
Arthur. Welsh Gwenhwyvar may have been derived from Proto-Celtic *vindo-siabraid,
meaning "white phantom." In Welsh literature she
appears as Gwenhwyvach's sister. There is another theory that the
names of the sisters may mean "Gwenhwy the Great"
(Gwenhwy-vawr) and "Gwenhwy the Less" (Gwenhwy-vach).
Guinevere is most renowned for her love affair with Arthur's
chief knight Lancelot.
- GWENEVAK: Sister of
Guinevere in early Welsh legend. Possibly wife to Mordred.
Apparently, Gwenevak and Guinevere did not get along well;
in fact, Triad 84 of the Culhwch states that the
Battle of Camlann was caused by the enmity between these two
sisters. Triad 53 lists the slap that Gwenevak gave
Guinevere as one of the "Three Harmful Blows of the
Island of Britain." And Triad 54 describes how Mordred
raided Arthur's court and threw Guinevere to the ground and
beat her.
- GWENHWYVACH:
Variant of Gwenevak.
- GYNETH:
Arthurian legend name of the daughter of King Arthur, in Sir Walter Scott's The
Bridal of Triermain. The name is an altered form of Gwyneth,
meaning "luck, happiness."
- HELAINE:
Another name for Elaine
of Benoic.
- HERZELOYDE: In the
German poem Perzival, this is the name of Percival's
biological mother.
- IBLIS: In Lanzelet,
this is the name of Lancelot's wife.
- IGRAINE: Wife of
Uther Pendragon, her second husband. Mother of Elaine,
Morgause, Morgan le
Fay, and King
Arthur. While still
married to Gorlois, her first husband, Uther falls in love
with her and makes forceful advances. She tells Gorlois who
takes her to Cornwall without asking the king's leave,
giving Uther an excuse to make war on Gorlois.
- ISABELLE OF CORNWALL:
Arthurian legend name of the mother of Tristan.
- ISEULT of IRELAND:
The name derives from an older name Adsiltia, meaning
"She who is gazed upon." Iseult of Ireland was the
wife of Mark of
Cornwall, daughter of King Anguish of
Ireland and Queen Iseult (the Elder), and adulterous
lover of Sir Tristan.
- ISEULT of the WHITE
HANDS: The name
derives from an older name Adsiltia, meaning "She who
is gazed upon." This
Iseult is the daughter of Hoel of Brittany, and sister of
Sir Kahedin. Tristan meets and marries her after his
banishment to Brittany. Their marriage is never consummated
because of his love for Iseult of
Ireland.
- ISOLDE:
"Fair aspect." Arthurian legend name of the tragic Irish princess who was the mistress of
Tristram.
- LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN:
see Laudine.
- LADY OF THE LAKE:
There are several Ladies of the Lake in Arthurian legend.
First, there is the Lady of the Lake who gives Arthur
the
Excalibur sword. Second, the Lady of the Lake who takes
Arthur to Avalon after the Battle of
Camlann. Third, the
Lady of the Lake who enchants Merlin. Fourth, the Lady of
the Lake who takes Lancelot
to her underwater kingdom after
the death of his father. According to the Merlin
section of the Lancelot-Grail, Merlin becomes
enchanted by Vivian's beauty. She refuses to return his
love until he teaches her all his secrets; after he does,
she betrays him by using her newly-acquired skills to trap
him beneath a stone.
- LAUSANNE: In the
Middle Ages, this was the name for Lake Geneva.
- LAUDINE: Also known
as the Lady of the Fountain. She is the ruler of the
mystical Castle of Landuc near a magical spring in
Broceliande Forest guarded by her husband Esclados. When
water from this magic spring is poured onto a nearby basin,
a huge storm begins. Calogrenant did this and was beaten for
it. To avenge his cousin, Ywain killed Esclados. He fell
instantly in love with Laudine the moment he saw her. Her
servant Lunete talks her into marrying him.
- LISANOR, LADY: Had
a brief fling with King
Arthur prior to his marriage,
thereby mothering Sir Loholt illegitimately.
- LLAMREI:
In Arthurian legend, this was the name of a mare
belonging to King
Arthur. It may be a feminine form of Lamri,
meaning "curveter."
- LYNETTE:
Arthurian legend name of the sister of Lyonesse,
meaning
"idol, image."
- LYONES:
Variant of Lyonesse.
- LYONESSE: Sister of
Lynette and wife of Gareth who saved her from
Sir
Ironside,
the Red Knight of the Red
Launds, possibly meaning "lion island." Note: See Lyonesse
on the male names page for the sunken land.
- MODRON:
"Divine mother." Daughter of Avalloc, mother of
Mabon, and probably the prototype of Morgan le
Fay.
- MORGAN le FAY: Fay
derives from Old English faie, meaning
"fairy." Morgan ultimately derives from Old Welsh mor
"sea" and cant "circle."
Therefore, "Fairy from the Sea Circle." She was a
powerful sorceress, daughter of Igraine and
Uther
Pendragon,
and half-sister to Arthur.
- MORGAUSE:
Half-sister of King
Arthur, daughter of Gorlois and
Igraine.
Wife to King
Lot, an enemy of Arthur. She slept with Arthur,
producing Mordred, who later brought about
Camelot's
downfall.
- MORVYDD:
Arthurian legend name of the twin sister of Sir
Ywain.
- NIMUE:
Welsh myth name of the sorceress who stole away the infant Lancelot, known
in Arthurian legend as the Lady of the Lake. Probably related to Greek Mneme,
meaning "memory."
- NINEVE:
Another name for the Lady of
the Lake.
- OLWEN:
"Footprint/track of the holy one." Heroine of Culhwch
and Olwen in the Mabinogion. Daughter of the
fierce giant Ysbaddaden who
was fated to die if she ever married. When Culhwch
came to seek her hand, Ysbaddaden required that he complete a series of
nearly impossible tasks
before he would grant permission for them to marry.
- SHALOTT: Name of an
island in Tennyson's romantic poem "The Lady of Shalott,"
concerning Elaine of Astolat, a maiden who falls in love
with Lancelot, but dies of grief when he cannot return her
love. Shalott is located in a river near Camelot.
- TEGAU EURFON:
"Gold-breast." Name of the wife of Sir
Briefbras.
- VIVIAN:
Arthurian legend name of the Lady of the Lake,
derived from Roman
Vivianus, meaning
"alive; animated; lively."
- YGRAINE:
Variant of Igraine.
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