His mother was Morgan, Arthur's sister and different versions of the stories have her knowing he was her brother when they slept together and other have them both ignorant.

Mordred was fated to kill his father, King Arthur. ( )Īs I am Morgan Le Fey told the early story of Morgan and some of her early experiences which formed her into the woman we know from the Arthurian Tales, this does the same for Mordred. I listened to Steven Crossley narrate Recorded BookÃ‚Âƒ?s version of I Am Mordred. Springer doesnÃ‚Âƒ?t change the legendary ending. I wouldnÃ‚Âƒ?t hesitate to recommend I Am Mordred to children, but keep in mind that itÃ‚Âƒ?s dark and sad. Nancy Springer succeeds in illustrating the lesson that we should always try to look at events from other peopleÃ‚Âƒ?s perspectives.

As far as childrenÃ‚Âƒ?s literature goes, the tale is rather somber and dark, dealing with incest, adultery, murder, and death, but itÃ‚Âƒ?s tastefully done and none of it is graphic or glorifying. I Am Mordred is marketed to children aged 10 and up. In addition Springer explores such subjects as the nature of family, love, loneliness, original sin, self-determinism, fate and free will, honor, shame and guilt, and the function of the soul.

Nancy SpringerÃ‚Âƒ?s prose is pretty and she brings a little piece of Arthurian Legend to life as Mordred gives his candid impressions of Arthur, Morgause, Morgan Le Fay, and others. I Am Mordred is a short sad novel with a sympathetic anti-hero. Can Mordred find love? Can he defy his fate, or is he destined to fulfill it? HeÃ‚Âƒ?s a sensitive child who just wants to be loved and accepted by his scheming mother and the kind father who refuses to acknowledge him as son. Now he lives with a cold mother, a heavy burden (Merlin has publicly prophesied that Mordred will kill King Arthur) and a huge helping of guilt (King Arthur killed all the babies in the realm when he found out about MordredÃ‚Âƒ?s birth).īut Mordred doesnÃ‚Âƒ?t want to kill anybody. His life changes when heÃ‚Âƒ?s discovered and taken away. When we meet Mordred heÃ‚Âƒ?s a happy child being raised in a loving home by hard-working fisherfolk. In her novel I Am Mordred, Nancy Springer flips the legend, brings the traitorous Mordred to tragic life, and makes him easy to sympathize with. Or maybe we just donÃ‚Âƒ?t like reading about people who are hard to root for. Maybe itÃ‚Âƒ?s that Mordred isnÃ‚Âƒ?t very romantic. Why does Mordred, the man who eventually brings down the whole shebang, get such short shrift? Thereƒ?s plenty of source material, most notably Geoffrey of MonmouthÃ‚Âƒ?s Historia Regum Britanniae and Thomas MaloryÃ‚Âƒ?s Le Morte dÃ‚Âƒ?Arthur. Almost all the modern stories derived from Arthurian legends focus on King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, Sir Lancelot, Sir Gawain, and Merlin.

I am morgan le fay by nancy springer