Reading Notes: King Arthur, Part A

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For this week's readings, I am reading the King Arthur unit. I remember reading stories about King Arthur, Morgan le Fay, and Camelot back in elementary school through the Magic Tree House books and some other books I can't remember right now.
King Arthur. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

I found this story about King Arthur and Morgan le Fay so interesting because I remember her as being this nice, protector of Arthur. However, in this version of King Arthur, I read about how she hated him and wanted revenge from him. King Arthur killed a knight in battle one day and that knight just happened to be the one that Morgan loved. 

One day Arthur had went out somewhere to rest after coming back from a battle. Morgan decided to go to where he was resting. When she reaches the Abbey of nuns where he is resting, she asks the nuns to not wake him. The nuns didn't want to disobey her so they left her alone. 

When she goes inside to see Arthur, she sees that he has his sword in his right hand so she takes it and rides away. Arthur wakes up and sees that it's missing and gets really angry. He asks the nuns who it was and they say that is was Morgan le fay. 

He calls for his knights and goes after Morgan. When Morgan sees that he's catching up to her, she throws the sword into the lake and then she turns herself, her men and the horses all into stone. Arthur tries to find his sword but with no luck. He goes back to Camelot and tells everyone what happened.

One day when a woman arrives bringing a mantle with her from Morgan and she tells Arthur that he shouldn't put this mantle on until the person who brought it to you puts it on first otherwise his knights will suffer.

So Arthur listens to her and makes her put it on. Immediately she died and burnt to ashes. Arthur gets even more mad that his sister was so wicked and tried to kill him.

from King Arthur: Tales of the Round Table
by Andrew Lang

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