Night in The Faerie Queene

As with Morpheus, the god of sleep and dreams, Night is another villainous character in The Faerie Queene.

Night is the mother of multiple characters in The Faerie Queene, including:

• Duessa
• The Saracen brothers: Sansfoy, Sansloy, and Sansjoy
• Pyrochles
• Cymochles

Since Night is associated with darkness, the opposite of light, there was a negative association with this entity. She was seen as an antagonist to the one true church, or with Christianity in general.

Night helps Duessa halt the progress of the Redcrosse knight and Una, and spends most of her time in hell, an appropriately dark place for a dark goddess.

See our complete list of Arthurian characters for more entries like this one.

Arthurian Bibliography

• Norris Lacy, Geoffrey Ashe, Debra Mancoff – The Arthurian Handbook (Second Edition)
• Alan Lupack – The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend
• Ronan Coghlan – The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Arthurian Legends
• Anonymous – Lancelot-Grail, the French Vulgate
• Sir Thomas Malory – Le Morte d’Arthur

See also my ever-expanding list of primary and secondary sources.