Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-184.88.25.24-20131112235645/@comment-24492510-20141106192253

ReganX wrote:

Were the episodes dubbed or subtitled? If so, "stepdaughter" was mistranslated and I can see how it would lead you to believe that Morgana was older. In the first two series, Morgana is known as Uther's ward, the daughter of his dead friend, so it's not an indication of her age, one way or another.

I'd lean towards her being a bit younger than Arthur because of his reaction when she spoke of beating him. If she was a couple of years older, she'd likely have been bigger than he was so, while he wouldn't like losing to a girl, he'd hardly be so ashamed of having lost to her that he'd deny it ever happened. If, on the other hand, he lost to a girl who was younger than he was, it'd make sense to me that he would be embarrassed, even as an adult. I was led to know that she was older, because in the italian version, Uther often referred to Morgana as his stepdaughter (only in Series 1), so in Series 2, I assumed that she was older than Arthur, because I thought Ygraine was her mother. 2 years later I saw Series 3 (with Sereis 1 and 2 replicas) and I understood that Morgana's mother was not Ygraine, but Vivienne, but I keeped her as the oldest of the two characters.

Now, I know that Morgana is younger than Arthur (by around 2 years), but the fact that Morgana battled Arthur makes me think that Arthur was embarrassed because a girl battled him (the age was irrelevant) and I thought it would have been strange that a girl battled her older "brother".