What chapter does sir mordred story begins in the book called le morte d'art

Question: What chapter does sir mordred story begins in the book called le morte d'arthur!?
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In a way, it begins very early, when Arthur is seduced by Margawse (spelled various) ways and then learns that he has conceived a child by his half-sister!. As for what chapter this occurs in, that's not so easy to answer! There are two versions of Le Morte d"Arthur--Caxton's edition, published in 1485 and accepted for nearly 450 years as the only version, and the Winchester manuscript, discovered in 1934!. It turns out that Malory wrote eight independent but related Arthurian romances, and Caxton (the first English printer) revised the work into one more or less coherent, continuous narrative of twenty-one "books!." Both versions break their sections down into chapters!. In the Winchester version, the last paragraphs of the first chapter of The Tale of King Arthur (the first of the eight romances) tell of Arthur's attempt (on Merlin's advice) to kill Mordred (more properly spelled Modred), so the account of Modred's conception has to be earlier in that chapter!. In Caxton's version, the attempt is related at the end of Chapter 27 of Book I!. I can't find the account of Modred's conception there, either, but I've read it!Www@QuestionHome@Com