Mordred

As the peaceful King Arthur reigns, the five-year-old daughter of Lady Alayna, newly widowed of the village-wizard Toland, is abducted by knights who leave their barn burning and their only servant dead.

What will a person give to forsake his destiny? From his very incarnation, Mordred has been a pawn in Camelot's history. Foretold by Merlin that he will grow up to kill his father, the beloved King Arthur, young Mordred struggles with his fate, loathing the great king who tried to kill him as a baby, yet journeying to Camelot where he learns to serve and idolize the legendary leader. Torn between feelings of love and hate, Mordred yearns to make peace with Arthur, who still refuses to acknowledge him. But Mordred is determined to have peace at any price--even if it costs him his soul. In I Am Mordred, one of the most fascinating and misunderstood heroes of Arthurian lore comes to life in an epic fantasy for Camelot fans. "In language worthy of her heroic subject, Springer reworks Arthuriana to craft an original tale resonant with archetypal themes of love, loss, betrayal and reconciliation. Her strong female characters and bold recasting of traditional villains and heroes will draw the rapt attention of both sexes." —Publishers Weekly

"Told from the jaundiced point of view of Mordred -- Arthur's reviled bastard son."--Inside flap

"...you may be a knight who has never done anything, a worthless son to Arthur, and a bastard with a terrible tongue...But you showed you could make a true knight if Arthur ever gave you the chance. You showed spine just now. You didn't beg for mercy, you didn't cry, and you didn't give up your stance on the matter concerning the affair."King Arthur and The Round Table protect Britain from the evil Morgan le Fay and hold back the Saxons. Nimue is tasked with protecting King Arthur when Merlin leaves. Complications occur when Mordred, Arthur's son, arrives. Merlin's prophecy states Mordred is Arthur's bane and will bring about the downfall of Camelot. Suspicious at first, Nimue soon becomes Mordred's closest companion when she realizes he is not as evil as he is painted. As things spiral out of control with an evil wizard, stake burning, adultery, and treason Nimue must fight to prove Mordred is worthy of the throne. Will she save the man she loves, the country she has helped to build, or the King she admires?

Essays examining a variety of aspects of important Arthurian poem. The present volume grew from a nucleus of four papers given at the Twelfth International Arthurian Conference at Regensburg in 1971 on the alliterative Morte Arthure, increasingly recognised as one of the great masterpiecesof medieval English literature. These lectures sought to reappraise the poem and its somewhat enigmatic historical and cultural context, and are presented here in a much revised and expanded form. Unlike most volumes of theiskind, the contributions form an integrated whole, the result of lengthy discussions among the collaborating scholars over the past year. The topics range from the poem's place among chronicles and Arthurian romances to the date, audience and attitude to contempary problems, notably that of war. pecific fields such as heraldry and laments for the dead are examined in detail, while the linguistic structure of the poem is the subject of two essays.

Malory's chivalric virtues are rejected in favour of White's own 20th-century values; the love affair of Lancelot and Guenever is interpreted in terms of modern psychology.