[Uther]

Originalmente inviato da Mordred Inlè

Decisamente sì : D

Dunque, leggo or ora dal saggio "A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle" (curato da Carol Dover per la Brewer) che:

[...] A good example is the transformation of Mordred, who in the Cycle is no longer Arthur’s nephew, but his incestuous son. There is no mention of this paternity prior to the Cycle, as pointed out by James Douglas Bruce, ‘The Development of the Mort Arthur Theme in Mediaeval Romance,’ Romanic Review, 4 (1913), 403–71. On the same topic see Elizabeth Archibald, ‘Arthur and Mordred: Variations on an Incest Theme,’ Arthurian Literature, 8 (1989), 1–27. One can always find mythical parallels, as in M.Victoria Guérin, ‘The King’s Sin: The Origins of the David-Arthur Parallel,’ in The Passing of Arthur: New Essays in Arthurian Tradition, ed. Christopher Baswell and William Sharpe (New York and London, 1988), pp. 15–30, but there are definitely no Arthurian texts or ‘legendary’ sources, as shown by Peter Korrel’s negative results in An Arthurian Triangle: A Study of the Origin, Development and Characterization of Arthur, Guinevere and Mordred (Leiden, 1984).