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Folks and Carl Lindahl, 'Loathly Lady', in Medieval Folklore, pp.

Assisted by two practical deii ex machina, the offstage plastic surgeon who has made her scars less visible and the 'tiring woman' who artfully drapes a lock of hair over her blinded eye, Margaret is no longer the 'loathly lady', though not quite the transformed beauty of the medieval romances.

Then when they had despoyld her tire and call, Such as she was, their eies might her behold, That the misshaped parts did them appall, A loathly, wrinckled hag, ill fauord, old, Whose secret filth good manners biddeth not be told.

John Lawson (author); THE LOATHLY LADY; Dragonwell Publishing (Fiction: Fantasy) 17.95 ISBN: 9781940076034

The gallery becomes a spectacle that is moral as well as magical, tied to similar cases like the Green Knight's beheading in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the loathly lady's transformation in the Wife of Bath's Tale.

As with the book's first half, a primary story illustrates the archetype, bolstered by additional tales and analysis; thus the seductress, the woman who chooses her own lover(s), is primarily illustrated by Aphrodite and Freya, but also by the Loathly Lady.

On their wedding night, however, the "loathly lady"--after lecturing the knight about the wisdom of age and the nature of true nobility--gives him an impossible choice: the knight may have his wife either ugly and faithful or beautiful and (perhaps) unfaithful.

Yet the outcome, as in 'Sleeping Beauty' and the even older tales of the 'loathly lady', is that the army officer's kiss awakens Carter's Countess from the state of living death, although she then dies permanently because she has become human enough to do so.

The English "Loathly Lady" tales; boundaries, traditions, motifs.

A secular parallel (from Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale) is the reformed knight's address to the loathly lady as 'My lady and my love, and wif so dere'), though, of course, critics have found his act of submission 'suspect' also.

Various common or standard themes or tropes also figure: Chastity test (7), Loathly Lady (37), Love potion (53), May babies (6), Poisoned apple (6), Wasteland (21), and "What women want" quest, which follow immediately The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell.

Her disfiguring wounds and her relationship to Orfeo's political sovereignty also place Heurodis in the surprising company of the "loathly lady," usually a misshapen hag, whom a knight must marry.

The Wife of Bath's tale is a brief Arthurian romance in which Chaucer uses the entertaining solas of the "loathly lady," which was first a theme in John Gower's Tale of Florent.

The Thing is the Loathly Worm of medieval ballads and a version of the post-modern artworks Byatt likes to invent, but it is also, because it is so concretely imagined, incontrovertibly material, present, real.

and the Loathly Lady is beauty masquerading as ugliness." They include stories about men seduced by a beautiful young woman who turns into an ugly old one or seduced by an ugly old woman who turns into a beautiful young one.