Name: Karen Lorena Rodríguez Sepúlveda

Code: 201710905

ABSTRACT EXCALIBUR

This story Cuenca with 10 chapters which are: Chapter 1: The Lady of the Lake
Chapter 2: Uther's Promise Chapter 3: King Arthur Chapter 4: Guinevere Chapter
5: Sir Lancelot Chapter 6: Sir Lancelot and Sir Gawain Chapter 7: Morgan Le Fay
Chapter 8: Mordred Chapter 9: The Message Chapter 10: Arthur Fights Mordred.

At the heart of this story is the search for the Holy Grail, that cup from which Jesus
drank at the Last Supper, which was said to have healing and regenerative magical
powers. This cup would have been given to Joseph of Arimathea, and her
descendants would have taken her to England. Merlin would have asked Arthur to
look for the Holy Grail and Arthur sent his knights to find him.

The literary king is the son of a king from a small region, Uther Pendragon (Welsh:
'Uther son of the Dragon'), who wanted Igraine, wife of Gorlois, Duke of Tintagel.
Uther had the magician Merlin haunt the woman so that when he entered her
quarters, she would think it was her husband. Uther, taking advantage of the
deception, has sex with Igraine, fathering with her a son: Arthur. When Gorlois dies
in combat, Cornish sages advise Igraine to marry King Uther.

At birth, Merlin takes the child and hands him over to Sir Hector to take care of him
and grow him like his own son, Kay. Igraine and Gorlois had had Morgause (or
Enna), Elaine (or Blasina) and Morgana (or Morgian), Arthur's older sisters. The
two elders ended up marrying and little Morgana was sent to the Island of Ovalon
with Merlin and the Lady of the Lake, where she became a priestess, magician and
then successor to the Lady. Other versions say Morgana was locked up in a
convent by her new stepfather, Uther. From there he could have ripped off his
hatred of Arthur.

At the age of 16, Arthur goes with his stepfather and his son to London, where
knights from all over England try to pull a sword out of their prison in an anvil who
at the same time was imprisoned in a piece of marble.

Legend has it that whoever released her would be the king of England and in
charge of unifying all the kingdoms of the island (Uther had died a few years
earlier). Unsuccessfully, all the knights tried to draw the sword, but it is Arthur,
without being a knight yet, who manages to free her, and her true identity is
revealed to her. With the resistance of all present, he is proclaimed king, yet
gradually everyone accepts it and Arthur swears to impart justice to all the men of
England regardless of his social position. A few days earlier Arthur had slept with a
beautiful young woman.
This was nothing but Morgana, her half-sister. When they found out what they had
done, Morgana fled, had her son in secret, and called him Mordred. Mordred would
be the end of his father.

Soon after Arthur loses his sword during a battle. The magician Merlin
accompanied him to a lake at the bottom of which was a castle where a sorceress
named Nimue, the Lady of the Lake, lived. This woman kept a wonderful sword,
Excalibur. Arthur asked for the sword, and Nimue gave it to him.

Merlin observed Excalibur's magic pod: "Keep this pod well" warned the king, "For
as long as you take it you will not lose any blood, but one day a woman will arrive
in which you trust and steal it from you." Already in his castle of Camelot, Arthur
surrounds himself with the bravest and most honest knights: Lanzarote (adopted
son of Nimue), Perceval (son of Pellinore), Gawain (son of King Lot and Morgause)
and others, along with whom he founded the Order of the Round Table. Britain,
then, enjoys twelve years of peace. He married Geneva, daughter of the king of
Cameliard, and they were happy until Lanzarote came to Camelot and he and the
queen fell in love in secret.

Arthur's knights, in search of the Holy Grail, fought in gloomy forests and castles
against goblins, dragons and other beasts, and returned to Camelot to tell their
adventures at the round table where they met. Arthur was helped by Merlin until he
disappeared with his beloved Nimue and was locked up by her on a hollow hill.
Arthur's stepsister Morgana took advantage of this situation to steal Excalibur's
enchanted pod and throw it into the sea.

Morgana thus acted with Arthur because of the marriage her brother had forced
her to marry King Uriens, and because Geneva, Arthur's fiancée, had expelled
Guiamor, his lover, from the court. During the search for the Holy Grail, everything
points to Sir Lanzarote going to find the magical object, but his love for the queen
did not make him worthy of such a prize.

When he spent a night at Corbenic Castle, where the King guarding the Grail lived,
this king's daughter, Elaine, fell in love with Lanzarote, and by magic, acquired the
geneva look to lay with him. Galahad, one of the knights destined to find the Grail,
would be born from this union.