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Igraine
[ ih-greyn ]
noun
- Arthurian Legend. the mother of King Arthur.
Igraine
/ ɪˈɡɪ /
noun
- the mother of King Arthur
Example Sentences
In the legends, Arthur is generally understood to be the son of King Uther Pendragon and Igraine — a back story that differs from the character in “Cursed.”
Sister Igraine is revealed to be Arthur’s sister, Morgana.
Model Poppy Delevingne has pivoted toward acting, making her big-budget film debut as King Arthur’s mother Igraine in Guy Ritchie’s “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword” opposite Charlie Hunnam as well as Jude Law, Eric Bana and Djimon Hounsou.
They had been talking, before the eagle-owl woke up, about the earlier wrongs of their family—about their grandmother, Igraine, who had been wronged by Arthur’s father —about all the long-gone feud of Gael and Gall, which had been taught them by their dam in old Dunlothian.
“Long time past, my heroes,” Gawaine was saying, “before ourselves were born or thought of, there was a beautiful grandmother at us, called Igraine.”
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