Uther

/ˈjuːðər/ proper noun

Definition

A legendary British king in Arthurian legend, famous as the father of King Arthur.

Etymology

From Welsh 'Uthyr,' meaning 'terrible' or 'wonderful.' The name appears in medieval Welsh legends and was popularized in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12th-century Historia Regum Britanniae.

Kelly Says

Uther Pendragon's name literally means 'terrible/wonderful dragon-head,' and in legend he's so obsessed with a woman that Merlin uses magic to transform him into her husband's shape—one of fiction's earliest and most ethically questionable uses of disguise magic.

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