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 of "Either/Or" itself. In 1886, Georg Brandes compared "Either/Or" with Frederik Paludan-Müller's "Kalanus" in "Eminent Authors of the Nineteenth Century", which was translated into English at that time. Later, in 1906, he compared Kierkegaard's "Diary of the Seducer" with Rousseau's "Julie, or the New Heloise" and with Goethe's "Sorrows of Young Werther". He also compared "Either/Or" to Henrik Ibsen's "Brand" but Edmund Gosse disagreed with him. Kierkegaard later referred to his concept of choosing yourself as the single individual in "The Concept of Anxiety", June 17, 1844, and then in his "", August 31, 1844, and once again in "Upbuilding