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	Daughter of Tintagel, by Fay Sampson


	Omnibus, first publication in 1992


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	Morgan the Fay’s life is told by four narrators, two women, two men; two pagan, two Christian; two sympathetic, two hostile; in shifting combinations. Gwennol her nurse, a wise woman of the Old Religion, tells of Arthur’s conception and Morgan’s love-hate relationship with her baby half-brother. The nun Luned tells of Morgan growing up in the nunnery on Tintagel, where abbess and wise woman battle for her soul. The blacksmith Teilo shows us the newly-made queen of Rheged. He tells of the young king Arthur’s rise to fame and his rejection of Morgan’s ambivalent love for him. The young bard Taliesin tells how he discovered the secret of Morgan’s foster-son Modred, but was unable to prevent the approaching tragedy. Finally, Morgan tells her own version of the past, and weaves through it the growing demonization of her legend down the centuries. She makes a last appeal to the dying Arthur to accept her terms for healing. Synopsis provided by the author.


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	Daughter of Tintagel / Morgan Le Fay


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