Crossword-Solution: YGERNE 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Then Uther in his wrath and heat besieged Ygerne within Tintagil, where her men, Seeing the mighty swarm about their walls, Left her and fled, and Uther entered in, And there was none to call to but himself.

Messire Gawain is Gwalchmei; Chaus, son of Ywain li Aoutres, Gawns, son of Owein Vrych; Messire Kay or Kex is Kei the Long; Ahuret the Bastard, Anores; Ygerne, wife of Uther Pendragon, Eigyr; Queen Jandree, Landyr; and King Fisherman for the most part King Peleur.

There is a mediaeval parallel in the story of Uther and Ygerne, mother of Arthur, and the classical case of Zeus and Amphitryon is familiar.

The answers first leave it dubious whether Arthur is son of Gorloïs, husband of Ygerne, or of Uther, who slew Gorloïs and married her:— “Enforced she was to wed him in her tears.” The Celtic custom of fosterage is overlooked, and Merlin gives the child to Anton, not as the customary _dalt_, but to preserve the babe from danger.

Ygerne, Gorloys' wife, was fairest of each one, That was Countess of Cornëwall, for so fair n'as there none.