Mordred des Orcades
Mordred est le cinquième fils de Lot et de Margause (demi-soeur d'Arthur). C'est un chevalier ambitieux, qui a à coeur d'être à la hauteur de la réputation de son clan et en particulier de ses frères aînés ; tâche difficile alors que Gauvain est quinze ans plus âgé que lui ! Mordred est enjoué, amical, volontaire, et il recherche la gloire.
Selon P.A. Karr...
The infant Mordred was among the May Babies, but when the ship went down, he among others were cast up on shore, where "a good man found them, and nourished them till he was fourteen year old, and then he brought him to the court ... " Then, the boy was somehow identified and returned to his mother to be raised and educated by her.
Vulgate IV tells us that Mordred was knighted at the age of twenty. He was tall with fair curly hair, and would have been handsome but for a wicked expression. During his first two years of knighthood, he seems to have been very promising. For a time he traveled adventuring with Lancelot. Together they saw the mystic stag and four lions in Carteloise Forest, and Mordred won praise from the great Du Lac for his manly endeavors.
