Mordred Mordred Mordred or Modred (; ) is a character in the Arthurian legend. Based on a possibly historical figure, Mordred is most commonly known as a notorious traitor who fought King Arthur at the Battle of Camlann, where he was killed and Arthur was fatally wounded. In the popular version, he is the bastard son of Arthur and Arthur's half-sister, Morgause. The name "Mordred" (found as Modredus in Geoffrey of Monmouth's "Historia Regum Britanniae") comes from Old Welsh "Medraut" (comparable to Old Cornish "Modred" and Old Breton "Modrot") and is ultimately derived from Latin "Moderātus" meaning "within bounds, observing moderation,
Either/Or Stangerup, (1937-1998) a Danish writer, wrote three books as a way to illustrate Kierkegaard's three stages of existence, 1981, "The Road to Lagoa Santa", which was about Kierkegaard's brother-in-law Peter Wilhelm Lund (the ethicist), 1985 "The Seducer: It Is Hard to Die in Dieppe", Peder Ludvig Moller was the esthetic in that novel, and in 1991 "Brother Jacob" which describes Søren Kierkegaard as a Franciscan monk. In contemporary times, "Either/Or" received new life as a grand philosophical work with the publication of Alasdair MacIntyre's "After Virtue" (1981), where MacIntyre situates "Either/Or" as an attempt to capture the Enlightenment spirit set