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Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Σερ Κέι" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Kay" title="Sir Kay – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Sir Kay" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavaliro_Kay" title="Kavaliro Kay – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Kavaliro Kay" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keu" title="Keu – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Keu" 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'kind'">k</span><span title="/eɪ/: 'a' in 'face'">eɪ</span></span>/</a></span></span> (<a href="/wiki/Welsh_language" title="Welsh language">Welsh</a>: <i lang="cy"><b>Cai</b></i>, <a href="/wiki/Middle_Welsh" title="Middle Welsh">Middle Welsh</a> <i><b>Kei</b></i> or <i><b>Cei</b></i>; <a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a>: <i lang="la">Caius</i>; French: <i>Keu</i>; <a href="/wiki/Old_French" title="Old French">Old French</a>: <i>Kès</i> or <i>Kex</i>) is <a href="/wiki/King_Arthur" title="King Arthur">King Arthur</a>'s foster brother and later <a href="/wiki/Seneschal" title="Seneschal">seneschal</a>, as well as one of the first <a href="/wiki/Knights_of_the_Round_Table" title="Knights of the Round Table">Knights of the Round Table</a>. In later literature he is known for his acid tongue and <a href="/wiki/Bullying" title="Bullying">bullying</a>, boorish behaviour, but in earlier accounts he was one of Arthur's premier warriors. Along with <a href="/wiki/Bedivere" title="Bedivere">Bedivere</a>, with whom he is frequently associated, Kay is one of the earliest characters associated with Arthur.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kay's father is called <a href="/wiki/Sir_Ector" title="Sir Ector">Ector</a> in later literature, but the Welsh accounts name him as <a href="/wiki/Cynyr_Ceinfarfog" title="Cynyr Ceinfarfog">Cynyr Ceinfarfog</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cai_in_Welsh_tradition">Cai in Welsh tradition</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_Kay&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Cai in Welsh tradition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cai or Cei is one of the earliest characters to be associated with the <a href="/wiki/Arthurian_mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Arthurian mythology">Arthurian mythology</a>, appearing in a number of early Welsh texts, including <i><a href="/wiki/Culhwch_and_Olwen" title="Culhwch and Olwen">Culhwch ac Olwen</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Three_Welsh_Romances" title="Three Welsh Romances">Geraint fab Erbin</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Three_Welsh_Romances" title="Three Welsh Romances">Iarlles y Ffynnon</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Peredur_fab_Efrawg" class="mw-redirect" title="Peredur fab Efrawg">Peredur fab Efrawg</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Breuddwyd_Rhonabwy" class="mw-redirect" title="Breuddwyd Rhonabwy">Breuddwyd Rhonabwy</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Pa_gur" title="Pa gur">Pa Gur</a></i>, and the <a href="/wiki/Welsh_Triads" title="Welsh Triads">Welsh Triads</a>. His father is given as Cynyr Ceinfarfog (Fork-Beard), his son as Garanwyn and his daughter as Kelemon. </p><p>Before Cai's birth, Cynyr prophesied that his son's heart would be eternally cold, that he would be exceptionally stubborn, and that no one would be able to brave fire or water like him. Cai is attributed with a number of further superhuman abilities, including the ability to go nine days and nine nights without the need to breathe or to sleep, the ability to grow as "tall as the tallest tree in the forest if he pleased" and the ability to radiate supernatural heat from his hands.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Furthermore, it is impossible to cure a wound from Cai's sword.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cai is killed by Gwyddawg fab (son of) Menestyr, who is in turn killed in vengeance by <a href="/wiki/King_Arthur" title="King Arthur">Arthur</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Robert_Graves" title="Robert Graves">Robert Graves</a> commented that the early description of Cei "is close to the account given of the Sun-hero <a href="/wiki/Cuchulain" class="mw-redirect" title="Cuchulain">Cuchulain</a> in his battle rage. But in the later Arthurian legends Cei has degenerated into a buffoon and Chief of Cooks"<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>—an aspect of the folklore process whereby old heroes must be downgraded (but not forgotten) in order to make room for new.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pa_Gur_yv_y_Porthaur"><i>Pa Gur yv y Porthaur</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_Kay&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Pa Gur yv y Porthaur"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>One of the earliest direct reference to Cai can be found in the 10th-century poem <i>Pa Gur</i>, in which Arthur recounts the feats and achievements of his warriors so as to gain entrance to a fortress guarded by <a href="/wiki/Glewlwyd_Gafaelfawr" title="Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr">Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr</a>, the titular porter. The poem concerns itself largely with Cai's exploits: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>Prince of the plunder, / The unrelenting warrior to his enemy; / Heavy was he in his vengeance; / Terrible was his fighting.<br /> When he would drink from a horn, / He would drink as much as four; / When into battle he came / He slew as would a hundred.<br /> Unless God should accomplish it, / Cei's death would be unattainable.<br /> Worthy Cei and Llachau / Used to fight battles, / Before the pain of livid spears [ended the conflict].<br /> On the top of Ystarfingun / Cei slew <a href="/wiki/Nine_sorceresses" title="Nine sorceresses">nine witches</a>. / Worthy Cei went to Ynys Mon / To destroy lions. / Little protection did his shield offer / Against <a href="/wiki/Cath_Palug" title="Cath Palug">Palug's Cat</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Pa_Gur_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pa_Gur-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Culhwch_ac_Olwen"><i>Culhwch ac Olwen</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_Kay&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Culhwch ac Olwen"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Culhwch_and_Olwen" title="Culhwch and Olwen">Culhwch and Olwen</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ysbaddaden.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Ysbaddaden.jpeg/220px-Ysbaddaden.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="332" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Ysbaddaden.jpeg/330px-Ysbaddaden.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Ysbaddaden.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="397" data-file-height="599" /></a><figcaption>Culhwch and his companions at Ysbadadden's court in <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Wallcousins" title="Ernest Wallcousins">Ernest Wallcousins</a> illustration for <i>Celtic Myth & Legend</i> (1920)</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Culhwch" title="Culhwch">Culhwch</a>'s father, <a href="/wiki/Cilydd" class="mw-redirect" title="Cilydd">King Cilydd son of Celyddon</a>, loses his wife <a href="/wiki/Goleuddydd" title="Goleuddydd">Goleuddydd</a> after a difficult childbirth. When he remarries, the young Culhwch rejects his stepmother's attempt to pair him with his new stepsister. Offended, the new queen puts a curse on him so that he can marry no one besides the beautiful <a href="/wiki/Olwen" title="Olwen">Olwen</a>, daughter of the giant <a href="/wiki/Ysbaddaden" title="Ysbaddaden">Ysbaddaden</a>. Though he has never seen her, Culhwch becomes infatuated with her, but his father warns him that he will never find her without the aid of his famous cousin Arthur. The young man immediately sets off to seek his kinsman. He finds him at his court in <a href="/wiki/Celliwig" title="Celliwig">Celliwig</a> in Cornwall and asks for support and assistance. Cai is the first knight to volunteer to assist Culhwch in his quest,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> promising to stand by his side until Olwen is found. A further five knights join them in their mission. They travel onwards until they come across the "fairest of the castles of the world", and meet Ysbaddaden's shepherd brother, Custennin. They learn that the castle belongs to Ysbaddaden, that he stripped Custennin of his lands and murdered the shepherd's twenty-three children out of cruelty. Custennin set up a meeting between Culhwch and Olwen, and the maiden agrees to lead Culhwch and his companions to Ysbadadden's castle. Cai pledges to protect the twenty-fourth son, <a href="/wiki/Goreu_fab_Custennin" title="Goreu fab Custennin">Goreu</a> with his life.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The knights attack the castle by stealth, killing the nine porters and the nine watchdogs, and enter the giant's hall. Upon their arrival, Ysbaddaden attempts to kill Culhwch with a poison dart, but is outwitted and wounded, first by <a href="/wiki/Bedivere" title="Bedivere">Bedwyr</a>, then by the enchanter <a href="/wiki/Menw" title="Menw">Menw</a>, and finally by Culhwch himself. Eventually, Ysbaddaden relents, and agrees to give Culhwch his daughter on the condition that he completes a number of impossible tasks (<i>anoethau</i>), including hunting the <a href="/wiki/Twrch_Trwyth" title="Twrch Trwyth">Twrch Trwyth</a> and recovering the exalted prisoner <a href="/wiki/Mabon_ap_Modron" title="Mabon ap Modron">Mabon ap Modron</a>. </p><p>Cai is a prominent character throughout the tale and is responsible for completing a number of the tasks; he kills Wrnach the Giant, rescues <a href="/wiki/Mabon_ap_Modron" title="Mabon ap Modron">Mabon ap Modron</a> from his watery prison and retrieves the hairs of Dillus the Bearded.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, when Arthur makes a satirical <a href="/wiki/Englyn" title="Englyn">englyn</a> about Cai, he grows angry and hostile towards the king, ultimately abandoning the quest and his companions. The narrative tells us that Cai would "have nothing to do with Arthur from then on, not when the latter was waning in strength or when his men were being killed." As a result, he did not take part in the hunt for Twrch Trwyth. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_appearances">Other appearances</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_Kay&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Other appearances"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <i>Life of St. <a href="/wiki/Cadoc" title="Cadoc">Cadoc</a></i> (c. 1100) Bedwyr is alongside Arthur and Cai in dealing with King <a href="/wiki/Gwynllyw" title="Gwynllyw">Gwynllyw</a> of <a href="/wiki/Gwynllwg" title="Gwynllwg">Gwynllwg</a>'s abduction of St. <a href="/wiki/Gwladys" title="Gwladys">Gwladys</a> from her father's court in <a href="/wiki/Brycheiniog" title="Brycheiniog">Brycheiniog</a>. Cai appears prominently in the <a href="/wiki/Ystorya_Trystan" title="Ystorya Trystan">early Welsh version</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/Tristan_and_Isolde" class="mw-redirect" title="Tristan and Isolde">Tristan and Isolde</a></i>, in which he assists the two lovers and is himself infatuated with a maiden named Golwg Hafddydd,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in the early dialogue poems relating to <a href="/wiki/Maleagant" title="Maleagant">Melwas</a>'s abduction of <a href="/wiki/Guinevere" title="Guinevere">Gwenhwyfar</a>. The context suggests that Cai is rescuing the queen from the otherworldly suitor, and may imply a romantic relationship between Cai and Gwenhwyfar.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Welsh Triads name Cai as one of the "Three Battle-Diademed Men of the Island of Britain" alongside <a href="/wiki/Tristan" title="Tristan">Drystan mab Tallwch</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hueil_mab_Caw" title="Hueil mab Caw">Hueil mab Caw</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <i>Triads of the Horses</i>, his horse is named as Gwyneu gwddf hir (Gwyneu of the Long Neck).<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to tradition, Cai is intimately associated with the old Roman fort of Caer Gai.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Welsh_Romances" class="mw-redirect" title="Welsh Romances">Welsh Romances</a> (specifically <i><a href="/wiki/Owain,_or_the_Lady_of_the_Fountain" class="mw-redirect" title="Owain, or the Lady of the Fountain">Owain, or the Lady of the Fountain</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Peredur_son_of_Efrawg" title="Peredur son of Efrawg">Peredur son of Efrawg</a></i>), Cai assumes the same boorish role he takes in the continental romances.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, manuscripts for these romances date to well after <a href="/wiki/Chr%C3%A9tien_de_Troyes" title="Chrétien de Troyes">Chrétien de Troyes</a>, meaning that Cai as he appears there may owe more to Chrétien's version of the character than to the indigenous Welsh representation. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Kay_in_chronicles_and_romances">Kay in chronicles and romances</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_Kay&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Kay in chronicles and romances"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Arthur-Pyle_Sir_Kay_breaketh_his_sword_at_ye_Tournament.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Arthur-Pyle_Sir_Kay_breaketh_his_sword_at_ye_Tournament.JPG/220px-Arthur-Pyle_Sir_Kay_breaketh_his_sword_at_ye_Tournament.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="249" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Arthur-Pyle_Sir_Kay_breaketh_his_sword_at_ye_Tournament.JPG/330px-Arthur-Pyle_Sir_Kay_breaketh_his_sword_at_ye_Tournament.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Arthur-Pyle_Sir_Kay_breaketh_his_sword_at_ye_Tournament.JPG/440px-Arthur-Pyle_Sir_Kay_breaketh_his_sword_at_ye_Tournament.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1327" data-file-height="1500" /></a><figcaption>"Sir Kay breaketh his sword at ye Tournament" from <i><a href="/wiki/The_Story_of_King_Arthur_and_His_Knights" title="The Story of King Arthur and His Knights">The Story of King Arthur and His Knights</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Howard_Pyle" title="Howard Pyle">Howard Pyle</a> (1903)</figcaption></figure> <p>Kay and Bedivere both appear in <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_of_Monmouth" title="Geoffrey of Monmouth">Geoffrey of Monmouth</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Historia_Regum_Britanniae" title="Historia Regum Britanniae">Historia Regum Britanniae</a></i>, and support Arthur in his defeat of the Giant of <a href="/wiki/Mont_Saint-Michel" class="mw-redirect" title="Mont Saint-Michel">Mont Saint-Michel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Geoffrey makes Kay the count of <a href="/wiki/County_of_Anjou" title="County of Anjou">Anjou</a> and Arthur's steward, an office which he holds in most later literature. In <a href="/wiki/Chr%C3%A9tien_de_Troyes" title="Chrétien de Troyes">Chrétien de Troyes</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Erec_and_Enide" title="Erec and Enide">Erec and Enide</a></i>, a son Gronosis is mentioned, who is versed in evil. By contrast, the Welsh attribute to him a son and daughter named Garanwyn and Celemon. Romance literature rarely deals with Kay's love life, with one exception being <a href="/w/index.php?title=Girart_d%27Amiens&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Girart d'Amiens (page does not exist)">Girart d'Amiens</a>'s <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Escanor&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Escanor (page does not exist)">Escanor</a></i>, which details his love for Andrivete of <a href="/wiki/Northumbria" title="Northumbria">Northumbria</a>, whom he must defend from her uncle's political machinations before they can marry. </p><p>In the works of Chrétien, Kay assumes the characteristics with which he is most associated today: hot-headedness and fiery temper (retained from the Welsh literature), supplemented by his role as an incompetent braggart. Chrétien uses him as a scoffer and a troublemaker; a foil for heroic knights including <a href="/wiki/Lancelot" title="Lancelot">Lancelot</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ywain" title="Ywain">Ywain</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Gawain" title="Gawain">Gawain</a>. He mocks the chivalric courtesy of Sir <a href="/wiki/Calogrenant" class="mw-redirect" title="Calogrenant">Calogrenant</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Yvain,_the_Knight_of_the_Lion" title="Yvain, the Knight of the Lion">Yvain, the Knight of the Lion</a></i>, and he tricks Arthur into allowing him to try to save <a href="/wiki/Guinevere" title="Guinevere">Guinevere</a> from <a href="/wiki/Maleagant" title="Maleagant">Maleagant</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Lancelot,_the_Knight_of_the_Cart" title="Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart">Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart</a></i>, which ends in his humiliating defeat. In <i><a href="/wiki/Perceval,_the_Story_of_the_Grail" title="Perceval, the Story of the Grail">Perceval, the Story of the Grail</a></i>, Sir Kay grows angry with <a href="/wiki/Percival" title="Percival">Perceval</a>'s naïveté and slaps a maiden who says he will become a great knight; Perceval later avenges her by breaking Kay's shoulder. <a href="/wiki/Wolfram_von_Eschenbach" title="Wolfram von Eschenbach">Wolfram von Eschenbach</a>, who tells a similar story in his <i><a href="/wiki/Parzival" title="Parzival">Parzival</a></i>, asks his audience not to judge Kay too harshly, as his sharp words actually serve to maintain courtly order: "Though few may agree with me—Keie was a brave and loyal man ... The mighty Keie."<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Siedl%C4%99cin_Wie%C5%BCa_Ksi%C4%85%C5%BC%C4%99ca_Gotyckie_malowid%C5%82a_%C5%9Bcienne_Lancelot_i_Key.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Siedl%C4%99cin_Wie%C5%BCa_Ksi%C4%85%C5%BC%C4%99ca_Gotyckie_malowid%C5%82a_%C5%9Bcienne_Lancelot_i_Key.JPG/170px-Siedl%C4%99cin_Wie%C5%BCa_Ksi%C4%85%C5%BC%C4%99ca_Gotyckie_malowid%C5%82a_%C5%9Bcienne_Lancelot_i_Key.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="255" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Siedl%C4%99cin_Wie%C5%BCa_Ksi%C4%85%C5%BC%C4%99ca_Gotyckie_malowid%C5%82a_%C5%9Bcienne_Lancelot_i_Key.JPG/255px-Siedl%C4%99cin_Wie%C5%BCa_Ksi%C4%85%C5%BC%C4%99ca_Gotyckie_malowid%C5%82a_%C5%9Bcienne_Lancelot_i_Key.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Siedl%C4%99cin_Wie%C5%BCa_Ksi%C4%85%C5%BC%C4%99ca_Gotyckie_malowid%C5%82a_%C5%9Bcienne_Lancelot_i_Key.JPG/340px-Siedl%C4%99cin_Wie%C5%BCa_Ksi%C4%85%C5%BC%C4%99ca_Gotyckie_malowid%C5%82a_%C5%9Bcienne_Lancelot_i_Key.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2681" data-file-height="4021" /></a><figcaption>Kay and Lancelot in a <a href="/wiki/Siedl%C4%99cin_Tower" title="Siedlęcin Tower">Siedlęcin Tower</a> fresco (early 14th century)</figcaption></figure> <p>Kay is ubiquitous in Arthurian literature but he rarely serves as anything but a <a href="/wiki/Foil_(literature)" class="mw-redirect" title="Foil (literature)">foil</a> for other characters. Although he manipulates the king to get his way, his loyalty to Arthur is usually unquestioned. In the <a href="/wiki/Vulgate_Cycle" class="mw-redirect" title="Vulgate Cycle">Vulgate Cycle</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Post-Vulgate" class="mw-redirect" title="Post-Vulgate">Post-Vulgate</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Malory" title="Thomas Malory">Thomas Malory</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Le_Morte_d%27Arthur" title="Le Morte d'Arthur">Le Morte d'Arthur</a></i>, Kay's father Ector adopts the infant Arthur after <a href="/wiki/Merlin" title="Merlin">Merlin</a> takes him away from his birth parents, <a href="/wiki/Uther" class="mw-redirect" title="Uther">Uther</a> and <a href="/wiki/Igraine" title="Igraine">Igraine</a>. Ector raises the future king and Kay as brothers, but Arthur's parentage is revealed when he draws the <a href="/wiki/Excalibur" title="Excalibur">Sword in the Stone</a> at a tournament in London. Arthur, serving as squire to the newly knighted Kay, is locked out of the house and cannot get to his brother's sword, so he uses the Sword in the Stone to replace it. Kay shows his characteristic opportunism when he tries to claim it was in fact he that pulled the sword from the stone, not Arthur, making Kay the true <a href="/wiki/List_of_legendary_kings_of_Britain" title="List of legendary kings of Britain">King of the Britons</a>, but he ultimately relents and admits it was Arthur.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He becomes one of the first <a href="/wiki/Knights_of_the_Round_Table" title="Knights of the Round Table">Knights of the Round Table</a>, described as "best worthy to be a knight of the Round Table of any",<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and serves his foster-brother throughout his life. </p><p>Scholars have pointed out that Kay's scornful, overly boastful character never makes him a clown, a coward or a traitor, except in the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Grail" title="Holy Grail">Grail</a> romance <i><a href="/wiki/Perlesvaus" title="Perlesvaus">Perlesvaus</a></i>, in which he murders Arthur's son <a href="/wiki/Loholt" class="mw-redirect" title="Loholt">Loholt</a> and joins up with the king's enemies. This strange work is an anomaly, however, and Kay's portrayal tends to range from merely cruel and malicious, as in the <i>Roman de <a href="/wiki/Yder" class="mw-redirect" title="Yder">Yder</a></i> or <a href="/wiki/Hartmann_von_Aue" title="Hartmann von Aue">Hartmann von Aue</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Iwein_(poem)" class="mw-redirect" title="Iwein (poem)">Iwein</a></i> to humorously derisive and even endearing, as in <i><a href="/wiki/Durmart_le_Gallois" class="mw-redirect" title="Durmart le Gallois">Durmart le Gallois</a></i> and <i>Escanor</i>. </p><p>Despite his ubiquity, Kay's death is not a frequent subject in the Arthurian canon. In Welsh literature, it is mentioned he was killed by Gwyddawg and avenged by Arthur. In Geoffrey of Monmouth and the <a href="/wiki/Alliterative_Morte_Arthure" title="Alliterative Morte Arthure">Alliterative <i>Morte Arthure</i></a>, he is killed in the war against the Roman Emperor <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Lucius" class="mw-redirect" title="Emperor Lucius">Lucius</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while the Vulgate Cycle describes his death in France, also in battle against the Romans. According to Malory's Book 5, Kay does not die in the war against Rome, but rather survives and later is part of a party sent to try and retrieve <a href="/wiki/Excalibur" title="Excalibur">Excalibur</a>'s sacred scabbard, prior to the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Camlann" title="Battle of Camlann">Battle of Camlann</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> He is also among the few people who survives the battle of Camlann, although it is ambiguous as to how he does so; in later interpretations it is suggested that he never participated in that battle. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Modern_interpretations">Modern interpretations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_Kay&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Modern interpretations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Kay is a main character in the first three books of <a href="/wiki/T._H._White" title="T. H. White">T. H. White</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Once_and_Future_King" title="The Once and Future King">The Once and Future King</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sword_in_the_Stone_(novel)" title="The Sword in the Stone (novel)">The Sword in the Stone</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Queen_of_Air_and_Darkness" title="The Queen of Air and Darkness">The Queen of Air and Darkness</a></i>. His portrayal is based on Malory's account of Arthur's upbringing, but White adds a number of new elements to the story, including one in which the young Kay kills a dangerous <a href="/wiki/Griffin" title="Griffin">griffin</a> with the aid of <a href="/wiki/Robin_Hood" title="Robin Hood">Robin Hood</a> and <a href="/wiki/Maid_Marian" title="Maid Marian">Maid Marian</a>. White's Kay is quick-witted and often mean, but always a loving foster brother to Arthur, whom he calls "the Wart". <ul><li>Kay appears in the 1963 <a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney_Pictures" title="Walt Disney Pictures">Walt Disney Studios</a> animated film adaptation of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sword_in_the_Stone_(1963_film)" title="The Sword in the Stone (1963 film)">The Sword in the Stone</a></i>, where he is voiced by actor <a href="/wiki/Norman_Alden" title="Norman Alden">Norman Alden</a>. Though he is inept at <a href="/wiki/Jousting" title="Jousting">jousting</a> and sword fighting, Ector remains determined to groom him for knighthood and to possibly take the crown. Kay serves as a foil to Arthur, being self-centered, lazy, and outwardly boorish and bitter. Kay constantly bullies Arthur, and has a grudge against him, often trying to physically hurt him for his mistakes. However, when Arthur becomes king, Kay comes to respect Arthur as the king, as shown when he reluctantly bows down to Arthur at first, then does so sincerely, and also shows guilt for the way he treated him in the past.</li></ul></li> <li>In the 1970s TV series <i><a href="/wiki/Arthur_of_the_Britons" title="Arthur of the Britons">Arthur of the Britons</a></i>, Cei (in the TV series changed to Kai) was played by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Gothard" title="Michael Gothard">Michael Gothard</a>. In this version of the legend, Arthur is a Celtic chieftain and Cai is a Saxon orphan, raised together as brothers by an adoptive father, Llud, among the Celts. He is portrayed as somewhat hot-headed and sometimes distracted by female company, but a fiercely capable warrior (sometimes favouring an axe-weapon) and Arthur's most trusted and loyal friend.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Berger_(novelist)" title="Thomas Berger (novelist)">Thomas Berger</a>'s 1978 <i><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Rex:_A_Legendary_Novel" class="mw-redirect" title="Arthur Rex: A Legendary Novel">Arthur Rex: A Legendary Novel</a></i>, Kay is a somewhat foppish, sharp-tongued <a href="/wiki/Gourmand" title="Gourmand">gourmand</a>. Relieved to be freed from his bucolic upbringing in Wales, he takes charge of the kitchens at <a href="/wiki/Camelot" title="Camelot">Camelot</a> and yearns to make it a more sophisticated court. Arthur good-naturedly complains that Sir Kay is always serving him rich foods, when the king would rather just have simple meals. Kay supplies occasional comic relief in the book, but ultimately fights and dies with honour in the last battle against <a href="/wiki/Mordred" title="Mordred">Mordred</a>'s host.</li> <li>Kay is the main character of <a href="/wiki/Phyllis_Ann_Karr" title="Phyllis Ann Karr">Phyllis Ann Karr</a>'s 1982 novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Idylls_of_the_Queen" title="The Idylls of the Queen">The Idylls of the Queen</a></i>. Expanding on a scene from the classic tales in which a knight is poisoned at Guinevere's feast and the queen is accused of the crime, Karr turns her story into a <a href="/wiki/Murder_mystery" class="mw-redirect" title="Murder mystery">murder mystery</a> with Kay as the detective attempting to discover the truth.</li> <li>A version of Sir Kay appears in the 1982-1985 DC Comics maxi-series <i><a href="/wiki/Camelot_3000" title="Camelot 3000">Camelot 3000</a></i>.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Marion_Zimmer_Bradley" title="Marion Zimmer Bradley">Marion Zimmer Bradley</a>'s 1983 <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mists_of_Avalon" title="The Mists of Avalon">The Mists of Avalon</a></i>, Kay (spelled Cai) is Arthur's foster-brother. After a near fatal accident as a small child, Arthur is sent to live with Cai and his father, Ectorius. Cai and Arthur love each other very much, and after Arthur is crowned, he tells Cai, "God strike me if I ever ask that you, brother, should call me [king]."<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cai is described as having a facial scar and a limp, two injuries that he received while protecting Arthur during a Saxon invasion. Cai is made Arthur's knight and chamberlain, and he keeps Arthur's castle for him.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Gillian_Bradshaw" title="Gillian Bradshaw">Gillian Bradshaw</a>'s 1984 <i>Down the Long Wind</i> series, Cei is Arthur's infantry commander. He is a large man with fiery hair and a temper to match, but with a strong sense of honour and loyalty to Arthur.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Stephen_R._Lawhead" title="Stephen R. Lawhead">Stephen R. Lawhead</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Pendragon_Cycle" title="The Pendragon Cycle">Pendragon Cycle</a></i> Kay, spelled Cai, is Arthur's most loyal companion. As a child he had a crippled leg and Arthur was one of the few who defends him. This earns Arthur his complete and unquestioning loyalty. He dies in the battle against Mordred.</li> <li>In comedy TV series <i><a href="/wiki/Kaamelott" title="Kaamelott">Kaamelott</a></i>, Kay is portrayed as a rogue <a href="/wiki/Centurion" title="Centurion">centurion</a> and rival of Arthur named Caius <a href="/wiki/End_of_Roman_rule_in_Britain" title="End of Roman rule in Britain">who refused to follow his troops back to Rome</a> and therefore Celticised his name and was given knighthood by Arthur to end their rivalry.</li> <li>He appears in <a href="/wiki/Philip_Reeve" title="Philip Reeve">Philip Reeve</a>'s 2007 <i><a href="/wiki/Here_Lies_Arthur" title="Here Lies Arthur">Here Lies Arthur</a>,</i> as Cei, Arthur's loyal half-brother and friend to the bard <a href="/wiki/Myrddin_emrys" class="mw-redirect" title="Myrddin emrys">Myrddin</a> (Merlin) at the beginning, before their friendship wanes over his stories designed to improve Arthur's reputation. He is later murdered in person by a character known as 'The Irishman', while riding to the Irishman's aid against raiders. The Irishman attacked their camp overnight, on the order of Myrddin, as many viewed him as a superior leader to Arthur. The other members of Arthur's army who were untrusted were also killed by the Irishman and his soldiers. The main character, Gwyn/Gwyna, and Peredur (Percival), were the only two to escape and survive the attack.</li> <li>In the 2011 TV series <i><a href="/wiki/Camelot_(TV_series)" title="Camelot (TV series)">Camelot</a></i>, Kay is played by Canadian actor <a href="/wiki/Peter_Mooney" title="Peter Mooney">Peter Mooney</a>. In this American-Irish-Canadian adaption of Arthurian Legend, Kay is portrayed as a loyal and protective older brother to Arthur. Although raised in a rural setting, he appears educated and somewhat idealistic, described by the actor who plays him as having "a world of book-smarts, but no practical experience [of how be a warrior]".<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Sir Kay briefly appears in the <a href="/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_(season_5)" class="mw-redirect" title="Once Upon a Time (season 5)">season 5</a> <a href="/wiki/The_Dark_Swan" title="The Dark Swan">opener</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_(TV_Series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Once Upon a Time (TV Series)">Once Upon a Time</a></i>, where he betrays Arthur and attempts to pull Excalibur out of the stone to rule Camelot for himself. When he attempts to do so, he is proven unworthy, and the protection around the sword turns him to dust.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_Kay&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See Rachel Bromwich's discussion in the "Notes on Personal Names", part of her edition of <i>Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Welsh Triads</i>, second edition (Cardiff: University of Wales, 1978), pp. 303–307.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">S. Davies translation, <i>The Mabinogion</i> (Oxford 2007) p. 189.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gantz, Jeffrey. <i>The Mabinogion</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">R. Graves, <i>The White Goddess</i> (Manchester 1999) p. 91.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">H. Mustard translation, <i>Parzival</i> (New York 1961) p. 16.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Pa_Gur-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Pa_Gur_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.markadderley.net/arthur/welsh-arthur/pagur.html"><i>Pa Gur</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110723202344/http://www.markadderley.net/arthur/welsh-arthur/pagur.html">Archived</a> 2011-07-23 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">S. Davies translation, <i>The Mabinogion</i> (Oxford 2007) p. 189.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">S. Davies translation, <i>The Mabinogion</i> (Oxford 2007) p. 193.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">S. Davies translation, <i>The Mabinogion</i> (Oxford 2007) pp. 202-7.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/trystan.html">Trystan and Esyllt</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/melwas.html">The Dialogue of Melwas and Gwenhwyfar</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ReferenceA-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceA_12-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceA_12-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Bromwich, Rachel. <i>Trioedd Ynys Prydein</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bromwich, Rachel. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.celtnet.org.uk/gods_c/cei.html">Cei at Celtnet</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">S. Davies translation, <i>The Mabinogion</i> (Oxford 2007) p. 246.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">L. Thorpe translation, <i>The History of the Kings of Britain</i> (Penguin 1966) pp. 238-9.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">H. Mustard translation, <i>Parzival</i> (New York 1961) pp. 159–60.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">H. Cooper edition, <i>Le Morte Dathur</i> (Oxford 2008) p. 9.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">H. Cooper edition, <i>Le Morte Dathur</i> (Oxford 2008) p. 60.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">L. Thorpe translation, <i>The History of the Kings of Britain</i> (Penguin 1966) p. 257.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFBradley1982" class="citation book cs1">Bradley, Marion Zimmer (1982). <span class="id-lock-limited" title="Free access subject to limited trial, subscription normally required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/mistsofavalon00mari"><i>The Mists of Avalon</i></a></span>. New York: <a href="/wiki/Ballantine_Books" title="Ballantine Books">Ballantine Books</a>. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/mistsofavalon00mari/page/11">11</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-345-31452-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-345-31452-2"><bdi>0-345-31452-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Mists+of+Avalon&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=11&rft.pub=Ballantine+Books&rft.date=1982&rft.isbn=0-345-31452-2&rft.aulast=Bradley&rft.aufirst=Marion+Zimmer&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fmistsofavalon00mari&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASir+Kay" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Starz channel promotion "Camelot: Focus 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Stroke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loathly_lady" title="Loathly lady">Loathly lady</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historicity_of_King_Arthur" title="Historicity of King Arthur">Historicity of King Arthur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_Arthur%27s_messianic_return" title="King Arthur's messianic return">King Arthur's messianic return</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pendragon" title="Pendragon">Pendragon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knight_of_the_Swan" title="Knight of the Swan">Knight of the Swan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tristan_and_Iseult" title="Tristan and Iseult">Tristan and Iseult</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow hlist" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><span class="mw-image-border noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="flag" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Flag_of_Wales.svg/16px-Flag_of_Wales.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="10" class="mw-file-element" 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style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background:#c1e6c1;;background:#90db90;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Welsh_mythology" title="Template:Welsh mythology"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Welsh_mythology" title="Template talk:Welsh mythology"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Welsh_mythology" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Welsh mythology"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Celtic_mythology_series" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Celtic_mythology" title="Celtic 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href="/wiki/Branwen_ferch_Ll%C5%B7r" title="Branwen ferch Llŷr">Branwen ferch Llŷr</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Manawydan_fab_Ll%C5%B7r" title="Manawydan fab Llŷr">Manawydan fab Llŷr</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Math_fab_Mathonwy_(branch)" title="Math fab Mathonwy (branch)">Math fab Mathonwy</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#c1e6c1;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Matter_of_Britain" title="Matter of Britain">Arthurian</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Culhwch_and_Olwen" title="Culhwch and Olwen">Culhwch and Olwen</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Preiddeu_Annwfn" title="Preiddeu Annwfn">Preiddeu Annwfn</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pa_gur" title="Pa gur">Pa gur</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Three_Welsh_Romances#Owain,_or_the_Lady_of_the_Fountain" title="Three Welsh Romances">Owain, or the Lady of the Fountain</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Three_Welsh_Romances#Geraint_and_Enid" title="Three Welsh Romances">Geraint and Enid</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Peredur_son_of_Efrawg" title="Peredur son of Efrawg">Peredur son of Efrawg</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dream_of_Rhonabwy" title="The Dream of Rhonabwy">The Dream of Rhonabwy</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Geraint_son_of_Erbin" title="Geraint son of Erbin">Geraint son of Erbin</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#c1e6c1;;width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Taliesin" title="Taliesin">Taliesin</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cad_Goddeu" title="Cad Goddeu">Cad Goddeu</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Welsh_Triads" title="Welsh Triads">Welsh Triads</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Welsh_mythology#The_Dream_of_Macsen_Wledig" title="Welsh mythology">The Dream of Macsen Wledig</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Englynion_y_Beddau" title="Englynion y Beddau">Englynion y Beddau</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giants_(Welsh_folklore)" title="Giants (Welsh folklore)">Giant tales</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lludd_and_Llefelys" title="Lludd and Llefelys">Lludd and Llefelys</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#c1e6c1;;width:1%">Characters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Afaon_fab_Taliesin" title="Afaon fab Taliesin">Afaon fab Taliesin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amaethon" title="Amaethon">Amaethon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arawn" title="Arawn">Arawn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arianrhod" title="Arianrhod">Arianrhod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_Arthur" title="King Arthur">Arthur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afallach" title="Afallach">Afallach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beli_Mawr" title="Beli Mawr">Beli Mawr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bleiddwn" title="Bleiddwn">Bleiddwn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blodeuwedd" title="Blodeuwedd">Blodeuwedd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bedivere" title="Bedivere">Bedwyr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Br%C3%A2n_the_Blessed" title="Brân the Blessed">Bendigeidfran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Branwen" title="Branwen">Branwen</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Cai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caradog_ap_Bran" title="Caradog ap Bran">Caradog ap Bran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cassivellaunus" title="Cassivellaunus">Caswallawn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceridwen" title="Ceridwen">Ceridwen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cigfa" title="Cigfa">Cigfa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Creiddylad" title="Creiddylad">Creiddylad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Culhwch" title="Culhwch">Culhwch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyhyraeth" title="Cyhyraeth">Cyhyraeth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyledr_Wyllt" title="Cyledr Wyllt">Cyledr Wyllt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cymidei_Cymeinfoll" title="Cymidei Cymeinfoll">Cymidei Cymeinfoll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cynon_ap_Clydno" title="Cynon ap Clydno">Cynon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D%C3%B4n" title="Dôn">Dôn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drudwas_ap_Tryffin" title="Drudwas ap Tryffin">Drudwas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dylan_ail_Don" title="Dylan ail Don">Dylan ail Don</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dywel_fab_Erbin" title="Dywel fab Erbin">Dywel fab Erbin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edern_ap_Nudd" title="Edern ap Nudd">Edern ap Nudd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Efnysien" title="Efnysien">Efnysien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Elen" title="Saint Elen">Elen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elffin_ap_Gwyddno" title="Elffin ap Gwyddno">Elffin ap Gwyddno</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eliwlod" title="Eliwlod">Eliwlod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eufydd_fab_D%C3%B4n" title="Eufydd fab Dôn">Eufydd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euroswydd" title="Euroswydd">Euroswydd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geraint" title="Geraint">Geraint</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilfaethwy" title="Gilfaethwy">Gilfaethwy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glewlwyd_Gafaelfawr" title="Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr">Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goewin" title="Goewin">Goewin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gofannon" title="Gofannon">Gofannon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goreu_fab_Custennin" title="Goreu fab Custennin">Goreu fab Custennin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gronw_Pebr" title="Gronw Pebr">Gronw Pebr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwawl" title="Gwawl">Gwawl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwern" title="Gwern">Gwern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwrhyr_Gwalstawd_Ieithoedd" title="Gwrhyr Gwalstawd Ieithoedd">Gwrhyr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwyddno_Garanhir" title="Gwyddno Garanhir">Gwyddno Garanhir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwydion" title="Gwydion">Gwydion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwyn_ap_Nudd" title="Gwyn ap Nudd">Gwyn ap Nudd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwythyr_ap_Greidawl" title="Gwythyr ap Greidawl">Gwythyr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gawain" title="Gawain">Gwalchmei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hafgan" title="Hafgan">Hafgan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hefeydd" title="Hefeydd">Hefeydd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hueil_mab_Caw" title="Hueil mab Caw">Hueil mab Caw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hychddwn" title="Hychddwn">Hychddwn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyddwn" title="Hyddwn">Hyddwn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iddog_ap_Mynio" title="Iddog ap Mynio">Iddog ap Mynio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Idris_Gawr" title="Idris Gawr">Idris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llefelys" title="Llefelys">Llefelys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lleu_Llaw_Gyffes" title="Lleu Llaw Gyffes">Lleu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ll%C5%B7r" title="Llŷr">Llŷr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lludd_Llaw_Eraint" title="Lludd Llaw Eraint">Lludd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llwyd_ap_Cil_Coed" title="Llwyd ap Cil Coed">Llwyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mabon_ap_Modron" title="Mabon ap Modron">Mabon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madoc_ap_Uthyr" title="Madoc ap Uthyr">Madoc ap Uthyr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magnus_Maximus" title="Magnus Maximus">Macsen Wledig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mallt-y-Nos" title="Mallt-y-Nos">Mallt-y-Nos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manawydan" title="Manawydan">Manawydan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Math_fab_Mathonwy" title="Math fab Mathonwy">Math</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matholwch" title="Matholwch">Matholwch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menw" title="Menw">Menw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modron" title="Modron">Modron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morfydd" title="Morfydd">Morfydd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morfran" title="Morfran">Morfran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merlin" title="Merlin">Myrddin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nisien" title="Nisien">Nisien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olwen" title="Olwen">Olwen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penarddun" title="Penarddun">Penarddun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penpingion" class="mw-redirect" title="Penpingion">Penpingion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peredur" title="Peredur">Peredur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pryderi" title="Pryderi">Pryderi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pwyll" title="Pwyll">Pwyll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhiannon" title="Rhiannon">Rhiannon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Cyllin" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Cyllin">Saint Cyllin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Eigen" title="Saint Eigen">Saint Eigen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanddef" title="Sanddef">Sanddef</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seithenyn" title="Seithenyn">Seithenyn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taliesin" title="Taliesin">Taliesin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tegid_Foel" title="Tegid Foel">Tegid Foel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teyrnon" title="Teyrnon">Teyrnon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ysbaddaden" title="Ysbaddaden">Ysbaddaden</a></li></ul> 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<li><a href="/wiki/C%C5%B5n_Annwn" title="Cŵn Annwn">Cŵn Annwn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyhyraeth" title="Cyhyraeth">Cyhyraeth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dragon" title="Dragon">Dreigiau</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Welsh_Dragon" title="Welsh Dragon">Red</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_dragon" title="White dragon">White</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwragedd_Annwn" title="Gwragedd Annwn">Gwragedd Annwn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwyllgi" title="Gwyllgi">Gwyllgi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwyllion" title="Gwyllion">Gwyllion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llamhigyn_y_D%C5%B5r" title="Llamhigyn y Dŵr">Llamhigyn y Dŵr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morgen_(mythological_creature)" title="Morgen (mythological creature)">Morgens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Changeling#Wales" title="Changeling">Plentyn Newid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P%C3%BAca" title="Púca">Pwca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Twrch_Trwyth" title="Twrch Trwyth">Twrch Trwyth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tylwyth_Teg" title="Tylwyth Teg">Tylwyth Teg</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#c1e6c1;;width:1%">Locations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Annwn" title="Annwn">Annwn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cornwall" title="Cornwall">Cornwall</a> (<a href="/wiki/Celliwig" title="Celliwig">Celliwig</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caer_Sidi" title="Caer Sidi">Caer Sidi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cantre%27r_Gwaelod" title="Cantre'r Gwaelod">Cantre'r Gwaelod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dyfed" title="Dyfed">Dyfed</a> (<a href="/wiki/Narberth,_Pembrokeshire" title="Narberth, Pembrokeshire">Arberth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grassholm" title="Grassholm">Gwales</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwynedd" title="Gwynedd">Gwynedd</a> (<a href="/wiki/Aberffraw" title="Aberffraw">Aberffraw</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cantref_Arfon" class="mw-redirect" title="Cantref Arfon">Arfon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ardudwy" title="Ardudwy">Ardudwy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Caer_Dathyl" class="mw-redirect" title="Caer Dathyl">Caer Dathyl</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ludgate" title="Ludgate">Ludgate</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#c1e6c1;;width:1%">Items</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cross_of_Neith" title="Cross of Neith">Cross of Neith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Excalibur" title="Excalibur">Excalibur</a> (Caledfwlch)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pair_Dadeni" title="Pair Dadeni">Cauldron of rebirth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llech_Ronw" title="Llech Ronw">Llech Ronw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thirteen_Treasures_of_the_Island_of_Britain" title="Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain">Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Geoffrey_of_Monmouth" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Geoffrey_of_Monmouth" title="Template:Geoffrey of Monmouth"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a 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Britanniae">Historia Regum Britanniae</a></i> (c. 1136)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Vita_Merlini" title="Vita Merlini">Vita Merlini</a></i> (c. 1150)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Translations_of_Geoffrey_of_Monmouth" title="Category:Translations of Geoffrey of Monmouth">Translations</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Roman_de_Brut" title="Roman de Brut">Roman de Brut</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Layamon%27s_Brut" title="Layamon's Brut">Layamon's <i>Brut</i></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brut_y_Brenhinedd" title="Brut y Brenhinedd">Brut y Brenhinedd</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Breta_s%C3%B6gur" title="Breta sögur">Breta sögur</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Merl%C3%ADn%C3%BAssp%C3%A1" title="Merlínússpá">Merlínússpá</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Characters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aeneas" title="Aeneas">Aeneas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Alban" title="Saint Alban">Saint Alban</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albanactus" title="Albanactus">Albanactus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alhfrith_of_Deira" class="mw-redirect" title="Alhfrith of Deira">Alhfrith of Deira</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allectus" title="Allectus">Allectus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ambrosius_Aurelianus" title="Ambrosius Aurelianus">Ambrosius Aurelianus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amphibalus" title="Amphibalus">Amphibalus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andragius" title="Andragius">Andragius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archgallo" title="Archgallo">Archgallo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archmail" title="Archmail">Archmail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_Arthur" title="King Arthur">King Arthur</a></li> 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title="Ferrex">Ferrex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fulgenius" title="Fulgenius">Fulgenius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gawain" title="Gawain">Gawain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerennus" title="Gerennus">Gerennus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goffar_the_Pict" title="Goffar the Pict">Goffar the Pict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gogmagog_(folklore)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gogmagog (folklore)">Gogmagog (folklore)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goneril" title="Goneril">Goneril</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gorboduc" title="Gorboduc">Gorboduc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gorbonianus" title="Gorbonianus">Gorbonianus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gorlois" title="Gorlois">Gorlois</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gracianus_Municeps" title="Gracianus Municeps">Gracianus Municeps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guiderius" title="Guiderius">Guiderius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guinevere" title="Guinevere">Guinevere</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guithelin" title="Guithelin">Guithelin</a></li> <li><a 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