Ladies of the Lake

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The story follows the life of Addie and her three friends, Dot, Susannah and Ruth, students of the academy. Their antics and camaraderie against a bully eventually inspire them to form a pact to always support one another. Based on their favorite poem by Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shallot, they name themselves, Ladies of the Lake.

Malory, Sir Thomas; Malory, Thomas (7 September 1975). King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-501905-6– via Google Books. Pyle, Howard (1905). The Story of the Champions of the Round Table. New York Public Library. New York: Scribner. In some cases, it is uncertain whether Morgan and the Lady of the Lake are identical or separate characters. [39] According to Anne Berthelot, Morgan herself should be considered " the Lady of the Lake", as compared to the "upstart magician" Viviane, in the French prose cycles. [19] The 13th/14th-century English poem Of Arthour and of Merlin explicitly gives the role of Lady of the Lake to Morgan, explaining her association with the name "Nimiane" by just having her residing near a town called Nimiane (Ninniane). [40] Morgan is also depicted as a fairy from a lake (with an underwater and invisible castle that can be accessed only with a guide water dragon) in the Italian tale Cantari del Falso Scudo, [41] and as a former student of her fellow fairy Viviana in the French romance Claris et Laris. [42] Hodges, Kenneth. “Swords and Sorceresses: The Chivalry of Malory's Nyneve.” Arthuriana 12.2 (2002): 18. JSTOR. Web. 19 Nov. 2014.A literary walk in Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park". The Great Outdoors. Shields, Damian (photographer). 24 September 2014. Archived from the original on 25 September 2014. {{ cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: others ( link) In his Christian-themed 1987–1999 book series The Pendragon Cycle, Stephen Lawhead takes up the figure of the Lady of the Lake under a different name: the Faery princess Charis, daughter of Avallach, the king of Atlantis and later of Avalon. Married to the Breton prince Taliesin, she gives birth to Merlin. After Taliesin's death, Charis takes care of Merlin at Lake Logres, hence her name "Lady of the Lake". She is the protagonist and narrator of the first book in the cycle, Taliesin. The traditional figure of Nimue belongs to Charis' shapeshifting evil sister Morgian (Morgan), [92] the main antagonist through the entire series, including the modern-day-set Avalon: The Return of King Arthur. Nimue, the Blood Queen, appears as one of the primary antagonists in the Hellboy comic book series by Mike Mignola, influenced by the classic comics series Prince Valiant. [107] Here she was introduced in 2008 as a witch who driven mad after the powers she acquired from Merlin, gave her knowledge of the Ogdru Jahad, prompting the witches of Britain to dismember her and seal her away underground. Resurrected in the present day by King Arthur's last descendant, Hellboy, she assumes the mantle of the Irish triple war goddess the Morrígan and assembles an army of legendary and folkloric beings to eradicate mankind, only to stopped by Hellboy at the cost of his own life. Although having been turned into an evil creature trying to destroy the word, Nimue still had a human part "that hated and feared what she had become." [108] She is portrayed by Milla Jovovich in the 2019 film adaptation Hellboy.

Kaufman, Amy S. (2007). "The Law of the Lake: Malory's Sovereign Lady". Arthuriana. 17 (3): 56–73. doi: 10.1353/art.2007.0036. JSTOR 27870845. S2CID 154046024. Mangle, Josh (2018). "Echoes of Legend: Magic as the Bridge Between a Pagan Past and a Christian Future in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur". Graduate Theses. Anderson, Graham (1 March 2004). King Arthur in Antiquity. Routledge. ISBN 1134372019– via Google Books. An epic heartfelt read, full of emotion, lifetime friendships and faith. Mainly focusing on the life of one woman, Adelaide "Addie" MacNeill, as told from her perspective, beginning with her traumatic arrival at the Lakeside Ladies Academy in 1905. Her life takes some dramatic turns, as she and her close friends navigate their way into adulthood during the beginning of a world at war. Lacy, Norris J. (2010). Lancelot-Grail: Lancelot, pt. I. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. ISBN 978-1843842262.I felt for Addie when she was a girl coming to Lakeside Academy and even more so when I learned of the next tragedy she endures. Yet, she finds meaning in her life—even though that life is a lonely one.

When world tragedies touch the idyllic landscape of both timelines, the Ladies of the Lake’s once strong bond is shaken. Gohlke’s books always include little known disasters in history, bringing out the humanity of those catastrophes. Johnston, Rich (30 June 2019). "Frank Miller Calls "Cursed" His Feminist Retelling of the King Arthur Myth". Bleeding Cool News And Rumors.In the 2020 television series Cursed, a feminist re-imagining of the Arthurian legend based on an illustrated novel of the same title, [114] Nimue is the protagonist, portrayed by Katherine Langford in the adaptation. Writer and showrunner Tom Wheeler said he was inspired by "this really evocative image of this young woman’s hand reaching out of this lake and offering the sword to Arthur, so that image is what captivated us. And it's a really mysterious, magical, sad image, and it begged all of these questions: Why is she giving the sword to Arthur? What was their relationship? Why him? Why does she have the sword?" [115] (Contrary to Wheeler's stated belief, it is not Nimue who gives the sword in Malory's unrevised telling.) In Cursed, before becoming the Lady of the Lake, Nimue, also known as the "Wolf-Blood Witch", is a young woman coming into her Fey abilities, but whilst her home was ravaged by the Christian fanatics called the Red Paladins she is sent on a mission by her dying mother to deliver "The Sword of Power" (Excalibur but never named) to Merlin. Taking great liberties from the source materials, Cursed's Lancelot (known until the finale as only "The Weeping Monk") is already adult when Nimue first meets him and is for most part just one of her enemies, Merlin is revealed to be her father, and she is instead Arthur's love interest. The story of Cursed ends abruptly when Nimue is shot with arrows by a nun named Iris (an original character with no counterpart in the legend) and falls with the sword into a body of water, where she (or her spirit, as her exact fate is left unexplained) will guard the sword until "a true king rises to claim it." [116] [117] Albeit the TV series adapted the entire original book, it was supposed to continue in the canceled second season. [118] Kinter, William Lewis; Keller, Joseph R. (15 March 1967). "The Sibyl: Prophetess of Antiquity and Medieval Fay". Dorrance – via Google Books.