Dame Morgawse

Also known as: Morgawse / Queen of Orkney · Family: Orkney · Role: lady · First appears: Book VII, Chapter XIII

Life events

• Gareth of Orkney reveals his royal identity and kinship, unknown to King Arthur and Sir Gawaine.(Book VII, Chapter XIII)
  • With: Sir Gareth King Lot King Arthur Sir Gawaine Sir Agravaine Sir Gaheris
  • “Truly then, said he, my name is Gareth of Orkney, and King Lot was my father, and my mother is King Arthur’s sister, her name is Dame Morgawse, and Sir Gawaine is my brother, and Sir Agravaine and Sir Gaheris, and I am the youngest of them all. And yet wot not King Arthur nor Sir Gawaine what I am.”

Book VII, Chapter XIII

• child: Sir Gareth “Truly then, said he, my name is Gareth of Orkney, and King Lot was my father, and my mother is King Arthur’s sister, her name is Dame Morgawse, and Sir Gawaine is my brother, and Sir Agravaine and Sir Gaheris, and I am the youngest of them all.”
• siblings with King Arthur “my mother is King Arthur’s sister, her name is Dame Morgawse”

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