Sebile, alternatively written as Sedile, Sebille, Sibilla, Sibyl, Sybilla, and other similar names, is a mythical medieval queen or princess who is frequently portrayed as a fairy or an enchantress in the Arthurian legends and Italian folklore.
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Sebile appears in a variety of roles, from the most faithful and noble lady to a wicked seductress, often in relation with or substituting for the character of Morgan le Fay.
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Character of Sebile has her earliest roots in the Ancient Greek figure of the virgin priestess and prophetess known as the Cumaean Sibyl.
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Queen Sebile first appears in text in the Matter of France's Chanson des Saisnes as the young and beautiful second wife of the Saxon king named Guiteclin or Geteclin, who fights against the Franks.
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Queen Sebile falls in love with the Frankish king Charlemagne's nephew and Roland's brother, Baudoin, for whom she betrays her husband.
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Sebile uses her magical abilities to aid Huon in slaying her captor: a monstrous, 17-foot-tall giant named Pride, whom Huon defeats and beheads after a terrible duel.
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In La Chanson d'Esclarmonde, one of the continuations of Huon, Sebile is one of the three fay mentioned by name when summoned by the fairy queen Morgue, Lady of the Hidden Isle, to welcome Huon and Esclarmonde, his lover and daughter of the Emir of Babylon.
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Sebile takes part in the kidnapping of Lancelot by her, Morgan le Fay, and the Queen of Sorestan.
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The queens of Eastland and Sorestan appear identical in both versions, so Sebile seems to be the Queen either of North Galys or the Outer Isles in Malory's tale.
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Queen Sebile has an affair with Arthur's knight Sagramore, who is at first her prisoner until he seduces her.
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Sebile falls in love with Alexander on sight; she incites him into her mist-concealed Castle of the Lake by magic and keeps him there through seduction.
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Sebile welcomes guests to her kingdom of carnal pleasure, but, if, entangled in the delights, they spend more than a year there, the guests are trapped forever in sinful bliss, waiting for the Last Judgment with the fairies.
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Sebile boldly resists the flattering advances of the fay and her damsels, whose sinister nature he suspects, but later too receives an absolution after confessing to the Pope in any case.
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Sebile is a recurring character in Italian works of the 16th century, such as in Gian Giorgio Trissino's L'Italia liberata dai Goti.
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