Countess of the Fountain

Also known as: the Countess / the Countess of the Fountain · Family: her dominions · Role: countess · First appears: THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN 3

Life events

The Countess banishes Luned after Luned challenges her mourning.(THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN 3 · 📍 Castle)
- With: Luned
- “As it is, I will banish thee.”
Owain brought the Countess of the Fountain to Arthur’s Court, where she became his wife.(THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN 6 · 📍 Arthur's Court)
- With: Owain son of Urien Luned Arthur
- “And when he went thence, he took the Countess with him to Arthur's Court, and she was his wife as long as she lived.”

admirer: Owain son of Urien “No sooner had he beheld the lady, than he became inflamed with her love, so that it took entire possession of him.”
servant: Luned “And she is my mistress; and she is called the Countess of the Fountain, the wife of him whom thou didst slay yesterday.”
ward: Luned “I declare to heaven,” said the Countess, “that were it not repugnant to me to cause to be put to death one whom I have brought up, I would have thee executed, for making such a comparison to me.”
protégé: Luned “Luned,” said the Countess, “what change hath befallen thee, that thou hast not come to visit me in my grief? It was wrong in thee, and I having made thee rich; it was wrong in thee that thou didst not come to see me in my distress.”
with Luned (They are estranged after a quarrel.) “And henceforth evil betide whichever of us shall make the first advance towards reconciliation to the other; whether I should seek an invitation from thee, or thou of thine own accord shouldest seek to invite me.”

married with Owain son of Urien “Then Owain returned with Luned, to the dominions of the Countess of the Fountain. And when he went thence, he took the Countess with him to Arthur's Court, and she was his wife as long as she lived.”

Extracted from the original text of The Mabinogion. Made with Rho MD.