Arthurian Legend
British
Library Article
Project
Gutenberg Complete Text of Thomas
Mallory's Le Morte Darthur
English Sources
Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of
Britain (Historia regum Britanniae) (12th century,
1135-39)
Wace of Jersey
Layamon
Tristan and Iseult (12th century)
Anglo-Norman,
Inspired by Keltic Legend:
Deirdre
and Naoise
Diarmuid
Ua Duibhue
Grainne
The Pearl Poet, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (14th century)
French Sources
Chrétien de Troyes Perceval (Grail
story) (12th century)
“a Group of Cistercian Monks”(?), Vulgate
Cycle (1210-1230)
Prose Lancelot
Robert de Boron, Merlin (13th century)
“Post-Vulgate Grail Romance” (combining Arthurian Romance
with the Tristan Romance)
(Mallory’s chief sources were these French romances)
Welsh Sources
Gildas, De excidio et conquest Britanniae, Fall
and Conquest of Britain (mid-6th century)
Nennius, Historia Brittonum, History of
the Britons (9th century)
Annales Cambriae, Cabbrian Annals (late 9th century)
The Mabinogion (12th- 13thcenturies,
first English version by Charlotte Guest, 1838-49);
Culhwch and Olwen (12th century)
“Modern” versions and related stories
Thomas Mallory, Le Morte Darthur (late
15th century)
Thomas Love Peacock, The Misfortunes of Elphin (1829)
Sources: The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales (chiefly
in Welsh), Cambro-Briton (periodical ca. 1819); The Mabinogion (first
English version by Charlotte Guest, 1838-49); Taliesin (first
English version by Nash, 1858).
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King (1842,
1859, 1888)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Lady of
Shallot” (1832, 1842)
T. H. White, The Once and Future King (1958)
Marion Zimmerman Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (1982)
Themes:
Religion
Myth and Religion
History
Sociology
Psychology
Ethics
Anthropology (typologies)
Fantasy(?)
Nostalgia
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