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Annowre
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'''Annowre''' ('''Anouwre''') is an evil enchantress who desires [[King Arthur]] in [[Thomas Malory]]'s ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur|Le Morte d' Arthur]]''. Malory based her on a character from the earlier [[Prose Tristan|Prose ''Tristan'']], named '''Elergia''' in the Italian ''[[La Tavola Ritonda]].''
== Etymology ==
"According to Loreto Todd, "Annowre may be related to Aneurin, which is thought to come from [[Latin]] ''honorius''; Annowre would thus mean 'honoured woman'."<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> Lucy Allen Paton theorized that Annowre's name might have been related with [[Morgan le Fay|Morgain]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
== Annowre ==
As told by [[Thomas Malory]], Lady Annowre was a great sorceress from [[North Wales]] (''Norgalles''), who fell in love with [[King Arthur]] and tried to seduce him in her castle when he came to [[Cardiff]]. But she could not get Arthur to make love to her even by using magic, as he would remain faithful to [[Guinevere]] no matter what, she plotted his death.
Annowre entices Arthur to her tower in the heart of the Perilous Forest (''Forest Perilous''), where every day he is forced to fight for his wife. The [[Lady of the Lake]] Nimue (''Nineve'', ''Nyneve'', etc.) learns of the situation. She finds [[Tristan]] (''Tristram'') and brings him to the tower in time to see two knights defeat Arthur. Just as Annowre is about to decapitate the king using his own sword, Tristan rushes up and kills the knights. Nimue shouts to Arthur not to let Annowre escape, and the king chases the sorceress, overtakes her, and beheads her with the same sword. Nimue hang Annowre's head by the hair to her saddle.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
In some versions, it is Tristan who cuts her head off.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> [[Alan S. Kaufman]] connected Nimue's taking Annowre head to the classical legend of [[Medusa]], whose head was taken as a trophy by [[Athena]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> [[Patricia Monaghan]] considered Annowre possibly the double for [[Morgan le Fay|Morgan]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
== Elergia ==
According to [[Carolyne Larrington]], Malory's Annowre is the same character as Elergia from ''[[La Tavola Ritonda]]'', who herself is "an elaboration of the anonymous sorceress in some ''[[Prose Tristan|Tristan en Prose]]'' MSS. (Löseth S74a)."<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> In ''Tavola Ritonda'', Lady Elergia (''dama Elergia'') was the young and lustful daughter of Lady Escorducarla of Avalon (''Vallone''), who had created the marvelous castle of Great Desire (''Grande Disio''), decorated with an imagery of orgies, for her in a dark and dangerous valley within the Forest of Darnantes (or Andernantes) near Camelot.
Elergia finds Arthur in the forest and slips an enchanted ring on his finger, causing him to lose his memory and fall in love with her, forgetting about Guinevere and everything else in the world. Three months later, the Lady of the Lake breaks the spell and sends of one her damsels to bring Tristan (Tristram) to help Arthur escape. He arrives at the castle and slays Elergia's four brothers just as they are about to kill the escaping Arthur on Elergia's cruel order. The sorceress tries to flee to the castle's tower, but Tristan the Lady's damsel tell Tristan to catch her. He brings Elergia by her hair to Arthur, and the king takes sword and smites her head off, which is then taken by the Lady's damsel to Camelot. Tristan is at first shocked by Arthur's act, believing that such a deed unfitting a good king, but eventually agrees with him after hearing his story.
Arthur then tries to have her castle razed, but it is impossible to be pulled down; according to Merlin's prophecy, as the place of perdition, it would stand until the end of the world, the fall of its great central tower signaling the apocalypse. Elergia's mother, who in her grief becomes the "saddest woman in the world", later obsessively plots revenge on Arthur and all the wandering knights, sending her lover Sir Lasancis (''messer Lasancis'') to trap and burn Tristan.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref></ref>
== In modern culture ==
* Annowre appears in [[Clemence Housman]]'s ''The Life of Sir Aglovale de Galis'', the evil Sir Durnor "engaged one Annowre, a noted enchantress, to turn [[Aglovale]] from his joyless ways," in which she failed; Aglovale recounts spending a hard night with "the whore Annowre" against his will. Later, [[Percival|Percivale]] tell the news of "King Arthur's coming to Cardiff on adventure, and of his ending of the wicked Annowre."<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
* Nimue mentions her saving of Arthur from "that poor, love-crazed enchantress Annowre" in [[Phyllis Ann Karr]]'s ''[[The Idylls of the Queen|The Idylls of the Queen: A Tale of Queen Guenevere]]'', in which Morgan also counts Annowre among her "old cohorts".
== References ==
[[Category:Arthurian characters]]
[[Category:Female characters in literature]]
[[Category:Fictional characters who use magic]]
[[Category:Fictional witches]]
[[Category:Witchcraft in folklore and mythology]]
== Etymology ==
"According to Loreto Todd, "Annowre may be related to Aneurin, which is thought to come from [[Latin]] ''honorius''; Annowre would thus mean 'honoured woman'."<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> Lucy Allen Paton theorized that Annowre's name might have been related with [[Morgan le Fay|Morgain]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
== Annowre ==
As told by [[Thomas Malory]], Lady Annowre was a great sorceress from [[North Wales]] (''Norgalles''), who fell in love with [[King Arthur]] and tried to seduce him in her castle when he came to [[Cardiff]]. But she could not get Arthur to make love to her even by using magic, as he would remain faithful to [[Guinevere]] no matter what, she plotted his death.
Annowre entices Arthur to her tower in the heart of the Perilous Forest (''Forest Perilous''), where every day he is forced to fight for his wife. The [[Lady of the Lake]] Nimue (''Nineve'', ''Nyneve'', etc.) learns of the situation. She finds [[Tristan]] (''Tristram'') and brings him to the tower in time to see two knights defeat Arthur. Just as Annowre is about to decapitate the king using his own sword, Tristan rushes up and kills the knights. Nimue shouts to Arthur not to let Annowre escape, and the king chases the sorceress, overtakes her, and beheads her with the same sword. Nimue hang Annowre's head by the hair to her saddle.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
In some versions, it is Tristan who cuts her head off.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> [[Alan S. Kaufman]] connected Nimue's taking Annowre head to the classical legend of [[Medusa]], whose head was taken as a trophy by [[Athena]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> [[Patricia Monaghan]] considered Annowre possibly the double for [[Morgan le Fay|Morgan]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
== Elergia ==
According to [[Carolyne Larrington]], Malory's Annowre is the same character as Elergia from ''[[La Tavola Ritonda]]'', who herself is "an elaboration of the anonymous sorceress in some ''[[Prose Tristan|Tristan en Prose]]'' MSS. (Löseth S74a)."<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> In ''Tavola Ritonda'', Lady Elergia (''dama Elergia'') was the young and lustful daughter of Lady Escorducarla of Avalon (''Vallone''), who had created the marvelous castle of Great Desire (''Grande Disio''), decorated with an imagery of orgies, for her in a dark and dangerous valley within the Forest of Darnantes (or Andernantes) near Camelot.
Elergia finds Arthur in the forest and slips an enchanted ring on his finger, causing him to lose his memory and fall in love with her, forgetting about Guinevere and everything else in the world. Three months later, the Lady of the Lake breaks the spell and sends of one her damsels to bring Tristan (Tristram) to help Arthur escape. He arrives at the castle and slays Elergia's four brothers just as they are about to kill the escaping Arthur on Elergia's cruel order. The sorceress tries to flee to the castle's tower, but Tristan the Lady's damsel tell Tristan to catch her. He brings Elergia by her hair to Arthur, and the king takes sword and smites her head off, which is then taken by the Lady's damsel to Camelot. Tristan is at first shocked by Arthur's act, believing that such a deed unfitting a good king, but eventually agrees with him after hearing his story.
Arthur then tries to have her castle razed, but it is impossible to be pulled down; according to Merlin's prophecy, as the place of perdition, it would stand until the end of the world, the fall of its great central tower signaling the apocalypse. Elergia's mother, who in her grief becomes the "saddest woman in the world", later obsessively plots revenge on Arthur and all the wandering knights, sending her lover Sir Lasancis (''messer Lasancis'') to trap and burn Tristan.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref></ref>
== In modern culture ==
* Annowre appears in [[Clemence Housman]]'s ''The Life of Sir Aglovale de Galis'', the evil Sir Durnor "engaged one Annowre, a noted enchantress, to turn [[Aglovale]] from his joyless ways," in which she failed; Aglovale recounts spending a hard night with "the whore Annowre" against his will. Later, [[Percival|Percivale]] tell the news of "King Arthur's coming to Cardiff on adventure, and of his ending of the wicked Annowre."<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
* Nimue mentions her saving of Arthur from "that poor, love-crazed enchantress Annowre" in [[Phyllis Ann Karr]]'s ''[[The Idylls of the Queen|The Idylls of the Queen: A Tale of Queen Guenevere]]'', in which Morgan also counts Annowre among her "old cohorts".
== References ==
[[Category:Arthurian characters]]
[[Category:Female characters in literature]]
[[Category:Fictional characters who use magic]]
[[Category:Fictional witches]]
[[Category:Witchcraft in folklore and mythology]]
January 15, 2019 at 05:02AM
