List of books about King Arthur

List of books about King Arthur

This is a list of books about King Arthur, or his related world, family, friends or enemies.

9th century

*"Historia Britonum" attributed to Nennius

10th century

* "Annales Cambriae" Anonymous
* "Preiddeu Annwfn" attributed to Taliesin

11th century

Latin

Welsh

* "Culhwch and Olwen" Anonymous
* "The Legend of St. Goeznovius" circa 1019 (Mentions Arthur and Vortigern)

12th century

Latin

*"Vita Sancti Cadoc" by Lifris circa 1061-1104 (Mentions Arthur and Cai)
*"Vita Sancti Carannog" circa 1100 (Mentions Arthur)
*"Vita Sancti Euflami" circa 1100 (Mentions Arthur)
*"Vita Sancti Paternus" circa 1120s (Mentions Arthur and Caradoc)
*"Gesta Regnum Anglorum" by William of Malmesbury 1125 (Mentions Arthur)
*"Historia Anglorum" by Henry of Huntingdon 1129 (Mentions Arthur)
*"Vita Santi Gildae" by Caradoc of Llancarfan. A life of Saint Gildas the Wise, with an early version of Malegant-Guenivere abduction narrative. circa 1120-1130
*Works of Geoffrey of Monmouth
**"Historia Regum Britanniae" circa 1136-8
**"Vita Merlini" circa 1140
* "Life of Saint Kentigern" circa 1185 (Contains a version of the Merlin legend, here called Lailoken)
*"Vita Sancti Illtud" circa 1190s (Mentions Arthur and King Mark)

French and Anglo-Norman

* "Roman de Brut" by Wace circa 1155 (an Anglo-Norman verse reworking of Historia Regum Brittania)
* "Tristan" by Thomas of Britain circa 1170s
* "Tristan" by Béroul circa 1170s
* "The Lais" of Marie de France circa 1170s
**"Lanval"
** "Chevrefoil" circa 1170s, an episode of the Tristan and Iseult story

*The poems of Chrétien de Troyes
** "Erec and Enide" circa 1170s
** "Cligés" circa 1170s
** "Yvain, the Knight of the Lion" circa 1180s
** "Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart" circa 1180s
** "Perceval, le Conte du Graal" circa 1190
** "Tristan" mentioned but non-extant

*The poems of Robert de Boron
**"Joseph d'Arimathie"
** "Merlin"
** "Perceval"(Robert de Borons verse Josepheh of Arimathie and 300 lines of Merlin are extant. A prose version of Joseph d'Arimathie, Merlin, Perzival trilogy, supposedly by Robert exists in two MSS.)

German

* "Tristan" by Eilhart von Oberge circa 1170s
* "Lanzelet" by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven late 12th century (a rendering of a lost French tale of "Lancelot" that likely predates Chrétien de Troyes's famous "Lancelot or the Knight of the Cart". Ulrich von Zatzikhoven obtained a copy of the original book in 1194 and translated the work from French into German.)
* "Erec" and "Iwein" by Hartmann von Aue late 12th century (German reworking of Chrétien de Troyes's "Yvain, the Knight of the Lion" and "Erec and Enide"

13th century

French, Anglo-Norman or Provincial

* "Roman de Fergus" by Guillaume le Clerc 1190s/1200s
* "Jaufré" Anonymous
*Lancelot-Grail Anonymous (begun 1210s, finished 1230s)
** "Estoire del Saint Grail"
** "Estoire de Merlin"
** "Lancelot propre"
** "Queste del Saint Graal"
** "Mort Artu"
*"Perlesvaus" Anonymous, circa 1210s
* "Prose Tristan" by "Luce de Gat" (1230s) and "Helie de Boron" (circa 1240)
* "Roman de Silence" by Heldrius de Cornwall circa 1260s
* Post-Vulgate Cycle Anonymous (begun 1230s, finished 1240s)
* "Roman de Roi Artus" by Rustichello da Pisa; Franco-Italian, circa 1290s -1300

German

* "Tristan" by Gottfried von Strassburg circa 1210s
* "Parzival" by Wolfram von Eschenbach circa 1210s
* "Daniel von Blumenthal" by Stricker circa 1220
* "Diu Crône" Anonymous
* "Garel" by Pleier, circa 1230s

Norse

* "Tristrams saga ok Ísöndar" by Brother Robert 1226 (Norse reworking "Tristan" by Thomas of Britain)
* "Ivens Saga" by Brother Robert 1226 (Norse reworking of Chrétien de Troyes' "Yvain, the Knight of the Lion")
* "Erex Saga", perhaps originally by Robert. (Text probably changed in MS. transmission. A Norse reworking of Chrétien's "Erec and Enide")

English

* "Brut" by Layamon (English reworking of Geoffrey of Monmouth)
* "Sir Tristrem" circa 1300 (English reworking of "Tristan" by Thomas of Britain)

Dutch

*The "Lancelot-Compilatie", an adaptation of the Lancelot-Grail, but including several other romances as well:
**"Morien", Anonymous
**"Torec", by Jacob van Maerlant

Hebrew

*"Melech Artu" A Hebrew reworking of the "Historia Regum Brittanie"

14th century

English

* "Alliterative Morte Arthure" Anonymous
* "Stanzic Morte Arthure" Anonymous
* "The Avowyng of Arthur"
* "The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle" Anonymous
* "The Awntyrs off Arthure" Anonymous
* "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" by The Pearl Poet
* "Sir Launfal" by Thomas Chestre
* "Sir Libeaus Desconus"
* "Ywain and Gawain"
* "Sir Perceval of Galles"
* "Lancelot of the Laik"

Welsh

(All dates for the Welsh compositions are controversial)

*"Mabinogion" Anonymous
*"Culhwch and Olwen" (recorded)
*"The Dream of Rhonabwy"
*The Welsh Romances
**"Owain, or the Lady of the Fountain"
** "Geraint and Enid"
** "Peredur, son of Efrawg"

Italian

* "Tavola Rotonda" Anonymous

French

* "Perceforest" Anonymous

Greek

*"Presbys Hippotes" (Greek reworking of part of Rustichello da Pisa's "Compilations"

15th century

English

*"Arthur"
* "Le Morte d'Arthur" by Sir Thomas Malory
*"Prose Merlin"
*"King Arthur and King Cornwall"
*"Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle"

Italian

*"Orlando Innamorato" by M. Boiardo

16th century

English

* "Arthur of Little Britain"
* "The Greene Knight" circa 1500
* "The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain" 1508
* "The Jeaste of Sir Gawain"
*"The Misfortunes of Arthur" by Thomas Hughes 1587
*"The Faerie Queene" by Edmund Spenser 1590

Welsh

*"Tristan Romance", preserved in fragmentary form in several MSS.

Byelo-Russian

*"Povest Trychane" 1560s

17th century

English

* "The Birth of Merlin, or, The Childe Hath Found His Fathe"r by William Rowley (?1620; first published 1662)

*Works of Richard Blackmore
**"Prince Arthur: An Heroick Poem in Ten Books" (1695)
**"King Arthur: An Heroick Poem in Twelve Books" (1697)

Yiddish

*"Widwilt" (Yiddish reworking of "Le Bel Inconnu")

18th century

*Warton, Thomas (1728-1790)
** "The Grave of King Arthur" (1777)
** "On King Arthur's Round-table at Winchester" (1777)
* "Vortigern, An Historical Tragedy" by W. H. Ireland (1799) (A Shakespearian forgery)

19th century

* "The Lady of Shalott" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
* "Idylls of the King" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
* "Tristram of Lyonesse" by Algernon Charles Swinburne
* "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain

20th century

* [http://publicliterature.org/books/king_arthur/xaa.php "King Arthur and his Knights"] by Maude Radford
* "" by Thomas Berger
* Howard Pyle - In a four volume set including:
** "The Story of King Arthur and His Knights" (1903)
** "The Story of the Champions of the Round Table" (1905)
** "The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions" (1907)
** "The Story of the Grail and the Passing of King Arthur" (1910)
* "War in Heaven" (1930) by Charles W. S. Williams, a "modern-day" (20th century) quest for the Holy Grail
* "Taliessin through Logres" (1938) and "The Region of the Summer Stars" (1944) by Charles W. S. Williams (poem cycles)
* "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White including
** "The Sword and the Stone" (1938)
** "The Queen of Air and Darkness" (or, "The Witch in the Wood") (1939)
** "The Ill-Made Knight" (1940)
** "The Candle in the Wind" (1958)
** "The Book of Merlyn" (1958)
* "That Hideous Strength" (1945) by C. S. Lewis
* "The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights" by John Steinbeck
* "The Mists of Avalon" by Marion Zimmer Bradley
* "The Road to Avalon" by Joan Wolf
* "The Child Queen", "The High Queen", (collected in "Queen of Camelot"), "Prince of Dreams", and "The Grail Prince" by Nancy McKenzie
* "Hallowed Isle" by Diana L. Paxson
* "Sword at Sunset" by Rosemary Sutcliff
** Also "The Sword and the Circle'
* "Mordred's Curse" and "Merlin's Gift" by Ian McDowell
* "I am Mordred" and "I am Morgan le Fay" by Nancy Springer
* The Guenevere novels by Rosalind Miles
** "Guenevere, Queen of the Summer Country"
** "The Knight of the Sacred Lake"
** "Child of the Holy Grail"
* "Knight Life", "One Knight Only" and "Fall of Knight" by Peter David
* The Merlin series by Mary Stewart
** "The Crystal Cave"
** "The Hollow Hills"
** "The Last Enchantment"
** "The Wicked Day"
** "The Prince and the Pilgrim"
* The Arthor series by A. A. Attanasio
** "The Dragon and the Unicorn"
** "The Eagle and the Sword"
** "The Wolf and the Crown"
** "The Serpent and the Grail"
* "The Warlord Chronicles" by Bernard Cornwell
** "The Winter King"
** "Enemy of God"
** "Excalibur"
* By Jane Yolen:
** "Sword of the Rightful King"
** "The Young Merlin Trilogy"
* By Gerald Morris:
** "The Squire's Tale"
** "The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady"
** "The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf"
** "Parsifal's Page"
** "The Ballad of Sir Dinadan"
** "The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung-Cart Knight"
** "The Lioness and her Knight"
** "The Quest for the Great Unknown"
*By Molly Cochran and Warren Murphy
** "The Forever King"
** "The Broken Sword"
** "The Third Magic"
* The Pendragon Cycle by Stephen Lawhead
** "Taliesen"
** "Merlin"
** "Arthur"
** "Pendragon"
** "Grail"
** "Avalon"
* By Anonymous
** "King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table" (Illustrated Junior Library, Deluxe edition, September 1, 1950)
* By Roger Lancelyn Green and Lotte Reiniger (Illustrator)
** "King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table" (Puffin Classics, Reissue edition March 1, 1995)
* By Parke Godwin
**Firelord (1980)
**Beloved Exile (1984)
**The Last Rainbow (1985)
* The Tales of Arthur, books of The Keltiad, by Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
** "The Hawk's Grey Feather" (1991)
** "The Oak Above the Kings" (1994)
** "The Hedge of Mist" (1996)
* "A Dream of Eagles" ("Camulod Chronicles") by Jack Whyte
**"The Sky Stone" (1992)
**"The Singing Sword" (1993)
**"The Eagles' Brood" (1994)
**"The Saxon Shore" (1998)
**"The Sorcerer Part 1: The Fort at River's Bend" (1997)
**"The Sorcerer Part 2: " (1999)
** "Uther" (2001)
** "The Lance Thrower" (2004)
** "The Eagle" (2006)
* "The King Awakes" and "The Empty Throne" by Janice Elliott, set in a Medieval-style society several generations after a nuclear war. Both novels deal with the return of King Arthur and his friendship with a youth from the post-holocaust world
*"Merlin's Bones" by Fred Saberhagen
*"Idylls of the Queen" by Phyllis Ann Karr
*"Eagle in the Snow" by Wallace Breem; the coming of Arthur is foreseen by the chief of Segontium in the last page of the book
*"The Winter Prince" by Elizabeth Wein
*"The Pendragon (1978) by Catherine Christian
*"The Dragon Lord" by David Drake
*"Merlin's Mirror" (1975) by Andre Norton
*"The Return of Merlin" (1995) by Deepak Chopra
*"Arthur, King" by Dennis Lee Anderson (Arthur visits the 20th century and fights in the Battle of Britain)
*"Camelot 3000", a comic book series that reincarnates Arthur and his knights in the far future
*"The Fionavar Tapestry", a fantasy trilogy by Canadian author Guy Gavriel Kay
*"The Merlin Mystery", A puzzlehunt book which focused heavily on Merlin and Nimue having a love after Arthur has been entomed; it offered a cash prize as well as a gold, silver, bronze and crystal wand. However, the puzzle went unsolved and the prize unclaimed.

21st century

* "Avalon High" by Meg Cabot
* "Corbenic" by Catherine Fisher (2002)
* "" by Debra A. Kemp (2003)
* "The House of Pendragon II: The Recruit" by Debra A. Kemp (2007)
* "Sydney Wakefield: Into the Faraway" by Kimberly J. Smith
* "The Arthur Trilogy" by Kevin Crossley-Holland.
* "Here Lies Arthur" by Philip Reeve
* "The Tales of King Arthur" by Daniel Randall & Ronne Randall
*"Eye of the Oracle" by Bryan Davis (2006)
* "King Arthur and his Ribald Knights" by Art Banta (2006)
* "Song of the Sparrow" by Lisa Ann Sandell (2007)
* "The Sangreal Trilogy" by Amanda Hemingway
* "The Mystic Rose - Celtic Fire" by Toney Brooks (2001)
* "The Book Of Mordred" By Vivian Vande Velde
* "Dracula vs. King Arthur" By Adam Beranek, Christian Beranek and Chris Moreno (2007)
*"Sword of Darkness" by [http://www.kinleymacgregor.com Kinley MacGregor]
*"Knight of Darkness" by [http://www.kinleymacgregor.com Kinley MacGregor
*"Sons of Avalon: Merlin's Prophecy" by [http://www.sonsofavalon.com Dee Marie (2008)]

Nonfiction

* "Arthur's Britain" by Leslie Alcock
* "The Return From Avalon" by Raymond H. Thompson
* "The Quest for Arthur's Britain" by Geoffrey Ashe
* "The Medieval Quest for Arthur" by Robert Rouse and Cory Rushton
* "King Arthur - The True Story" by Graham Phillips and Martin Keatman
* "Pendragon The Origins of Arthur" by Steve Blake and Scott Lloyd
* "The Arthurian Tradition" by John Matthews

ee also

External links

* [http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cphome.stm Camelot Project]


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