Editing Lady of the Lake (section)

===Other identities and relations===
In some cases, it is uncertain whether Morgan and the Lady of the Lake are identical or separate characters.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4bZ3HqdHutMC&pg=PA93|title=King Arthur in Antiquity|first=Graham|last=Anderson|date=March 18, 2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781134372027|via=Google Books}}</ref> [[Richard Cavendish (occult writer)|Richard Cavendish]] wrote: "It may be that the two sides of Morgan's nature separated into two different characters and that the Lady of the Lake is an aspect of Morgan herself. If so, the two fays represent the two aspects [...] fertile and destructive, motherly and murderous, loving and cruel."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cavendish |first=Richard |title=King Arthur and the Grail: The Arthurian Legends and Their Meaning |publisher=Wedienfled and Nicholson |year=1978 |location=London |pages=123}}</ref>

According to [[Anne Berthelot]], Morgan herself should be considered "''the'' Lady of the Lake", as compared to the "upstart magician" Viviane in the French prose cycles.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fJaNAgAAQBAJ|title=Merlin: A Casebook|last=Goodrich|first=Peter H.|date=2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1135583392|language=en}}</ref> The 13th/14th-century English poem ''[[Of Arthour and of Merlin]]'' explicitly gives the role of Lady of the Lake to Morgan, explaining her association with the name "Nimiane" by just having her residing near a town called Nimiane (Ninniane).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3gaBAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA379|title=The Arthurian Name Dictionary|first=Christopher W.|last=Bruce|date=December 7, 1998|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781136755385|via=Google Books}}</ref> Morgan is also depicted as a fairy from a lake (with an underwater and invisible castle that can be accessed only with a guide water dragon) in the Italian tale ''Cantari del Falso Scudo'',<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.openedition.org/ugaeditions/21100 | isbn=9782377472970 | title=Cantari arthuriens : Romances italiennes du xive siècle | chapter=Cantari del falso scudo Qui s'incominciano i cantari del Falso Scudo | series=Moyen Âge européen | date=20 May 2021 | pages=117–157 | publisher=UGA Éditions }}</ref> and as a former student of her fellow fairy Viviana in the French romance ''Claris et Laris''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/text/porney-claris-and-laris | title=Claris and Laris &#124; Robbins Library Digital Projects }}</ref>

The 15th-century Italian prose ''[[La Tavola Ritonda]]'' (''The Round Table'') makes the Lady a daughter of [[Uther Pendragon]] and thus a sister to both Morgan the Fairy (Fata Morgana) and Arthur. Here she is a character mischievous to the extent that her own brother Arthur swears to burn her at the stake (as he also threatens to do with Morgan).<ref name=cl/> This version of her briefly kidnaps Lancelot when he is an adult (along with Guinevere and [[Tristan and Isolde]]), a motif usually associated with Morgan; here it is also Morgan herself who sends the magical shield to Guinevere in an act recast as having malicious intent.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N489DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT223|title = Cultures courtoises en mouvement|isbn = 9782760627109|last1 = Arseneau|first1 = Isabelle|last2 = Gingras|first2 = Francis|date = 11 October 2011| publisher=Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal }}</ref> The Lady is also described as Morgan's sister in some other Italian texts, such as the 13th-century poem ''Pulzella Gaia''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.classicitaliani.it/trecento/pulzella_gaia.htm|date=July 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708145842/http://www.classicitaliani.it/trecento/pulzella_gaia.htm|archive-date=2018-07-08 |title=Pulzella Gaia}}</ref> [[Mike Ashley (writer)|Mike Ashley]] identified Viviane with one of Arthur's other sisters, the otherwise obscure [[Elaine (legend)#Elaine of Garlot|Elaine]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0yeBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT460|title=The Mammoth Book of King Arthur|first=Mike|last=Ashley|date=1 September 2011|publisher=Little, Brown Book Group|isbn=9781780333557 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

In the 14th-century French prose romance ''[[Perceforest]]'', a lengthy romance prequel to the Arthurian legend, the figures of the Lady of the Lake and of the enchantress [[Sebile]] have been merged to create the character of Sebile [the Lady] of the Lake (''Sébil[l]e [la Dame] du Lac'', named as such due to her residence of the Castle of the Lake later known as the Red Castle), who is depicted as an ancestor of Arthur himself from her union with King Alexander ([[Alexander the Great]]).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_5eRDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA184|title=Roman de toute chevalerie: Reading Alexander Romance in Late Medieval England|first=Charles Russell|last=Stone|date=7 March 2019|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=9781487501891 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jG0bAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA69|title=The Tragedy of Knighthood: Origins of the Tannhäuser-legend|first=J. M.|last=Clifton-Everest|date=15 March 1979|publisher=Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature|isbn=9780950595535 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CYZRAQAAIAAJ|title=The Sibyl: Prophetess of Antiquity and Medieval Fay|first1=William Lewis|last1=Kinter|first2=Joseph R.|last2=Keller|date=15 March 1967|publisher=Dorrance|via=Google Books}}</ref> The later Lady of the Lake who raises Lancelot is also mentioned in ''Perceforest'', where both hers and Merlin's ancestry lines are derived from the ancient Fairy Morgane (''Morg[u]ane la Faee'' / ''la Fée'', living in a castle on the Isle of Zeeland). Here, their shared ancestors have been born from an illicit love between her beautiful daughter Morg[u]anette and Passelion, an amorous young human protégé of the mischievous spirit [[Zephyrus|Zephir]], hundreds years earlier when Morgane cursed them so that one of their descendants would one day kill the other.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dr_0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA32|title=The Fairy Mythology|first=Thomas|last=Keightley|date=1 August 2020|publisher=BoD – Books on Demand|isbn=9783752388435 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B_gc1P52bToC&pg=PA484|title=Perceforest: The Prehistory of King Arthur's Britain|date=15 March 2011|publisher=DS Brewer|isbn=9781843842620 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_HwcwFTpbIsC&pg=PA1252|title=Le roman de Perceforest|first=Gilles|last=Roussineau|date=15 March 1987|publisher=Librairie Droz|isbn=9782600026116 |via=Google Books}}</ref>