Mordred is a slave to his lust for the Queen, finding no outlet for his thwarted energies except in scheming action.
Mordred attacked; the Bishop of Canterbury dropped down on him with the Interdict.
Mordred was his half-brother, being the son of king Arthur and Margawse.
Her grief was not so bitter as it had been on the day of Roland's sudden departure from Mordred.
Arthur and Mordred have a Celtic origin, and they are as generally rejected as "mythical persons."
While he was in this state of love-lorn blindness the false-hearted knight Sir Mordred rode up with purpose to joust.