King Arthur: 10 Books of Tales & Myths about the Legendary King of Camelot

An Arthurian Anthology of Camelot, Excalibur, Merlin, the Grail, and the Round TableBy Howard Pyle, Richard Morris, James Knowles, T. W. Rolleston, Thomas Malory, Alfred Tennyson, Maude L. Radford

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King Arthur: 10 Books of Tales & Myths about the Legendary King of Camelot gathers a rich, diachronic archive of Arthurian imagination, tracing Camelot through medieval romance, Victorian poetry, children's retelling, and modernized mythic narration. The collection ranges from chivalric quests and enchantments to tragic meditations on loyalty, desire, kingship, and national destiny. Episodes of the Round Table, the Grail, Merlin's counsel, and Arthur's final loss acquire distinct tonal registers: heroic, elegiac, moral, and wonder-filled. Its inclusion of foundational prose romance alongside poetic and popular adaptations makes the volume an illuminating record of how a legendary matter continually renews itself. The contributing writers represent several decisive moments in the English-language transmission of Arthurian tradition. Thomas Malory's shaping of disparate medieval materials provides a central narrative inheritance, while Alfred Tennyson's Victorian recasting brings psychological gravity and ethical reflection to the legend. Howard Pyle, T. W. Rolleston, James Knowles, Richard Morris, and Maude L. Radford participate in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century revival of medieval subjects for broad readerships. Together, these voices reveal Arthuriana as both literary canon and living cultural mythology. Recommended for students, general readers, and lovers of myth, this volume offers an exceptional opportunity to compare forms, periods, and interpretive purposes within one accessible gathering. Its varied treatments invite readers to consider why Camelot remains enduringly compelling, while fostering dialogue between romance, poetry, history, and retelling.

Mythological World Royalty & Courts Folklore Historical Romance Epic Quest Magic Betrayal Political Intrigue Hero Supernatural War & Battle

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Publish dateDec 20, 2023

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1King Arthur: 10 Books of Tales & Myths about the Legendary King of Camelot

2King Arthur – An Introduction

3Le Morte d'Arthur

4Preface

5The Table or Rubrysshe of the Content of Chapters

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6Book I

7Chapter I. How Uther Pendragon sent for the duke of Cornwall and Igraine his wife, and of their departing suddenly again.

8Chapter II. How Uther Pendragon made war on the duke of Cornwall, and how by the mean of Merlin he lay by the duchess and gat Arthur.

9Chapter III. Of the birth of King Arthur and of his nurture.

10Chapter IV. Of the death of King Uther Pendragon.

11Chapter V. How Arthur was chosen king, and of wonders and marvels of a sword taken out of a stone by the said Arthur.

12Chapter VI. How King Arthur pulled out the sword divers times.

13Chapter VII. How King Arthur was crowned, and how he made officers.

14Chapter VIII. How King Arthur held in Wales, at a Pentecost, a great feast, and what kings and lords came to his feast.

15Chapter IX. Of the first war that King Arthur had, and how he won the field.

16Chapter X. How Merlin counselled King Arthur to send for King Ban and King Bors, and of their counsel taken for the war.

17Chapter XI. Of a great tourney made by King Arthur and the two kings Ban and Bors, and how they went over the sea.

18Chapter XII. How eleven kings gathered a great host against King Arthur.

19Chapter XIII. Of a dream of the King with the Hundred Knights.

20Chapter XIV. How the eleven kings with their host fought against Arthur and his host, and many great feats of the war.

21Chapter XV. Yet of the same battle.

22Chapter XVI. Yet more of the same battle.

23Chapter XVII. Yet more of the same battle, and how it was ended by Merlin.

24Chapter XVIII. How King Arthur, King Ban, and King Bors rescued King Leodegrance, and other incidents.

25Chapter XIX. How King Arthur rode to Carlion, and of his dream, and how he saw the questing beast.

26Chapter XX. How King Pellinore took Arthur’s horse and followed the Questing Beast, and how Merlin met with Arthur.

27Chapter XXI. How Ulfius impeached Queen Igraine, Arthur’s mother, of treason; and how a knight came and desired to have the death of his master revenged.

28Chapter XXII. How Griflet was made knight, and jousted with a knight

29Chapter XXIII. How twelve knights came from Rome and asked truage for this land of Arthur, and how Arthur fought with a knight.

30Chapter XXIV. How Merlin saved Arthur’s life, and threw an enchantment on King Pellinore and made him to sleep.

31Chapter XXV. How Arthur by the mean of Merlin gat Excalibur his sword of the Lady of the Lake.

32Chapter XXVI. How tidings came to Arthur that King Rience had overcome eleven kings, and how he desired Arthur’s beard to trim his mantle.

33Chapter XXVII. How all the children were sent for that were born on May-day, and how Mordred was saved.

34Book II

35Chapter I. Of a damosel which came girt with a sword for to find a man of such virtue to draw it out of the scabbard.

36Chapter II. How Balin, arrayed like a poor knight, pulled out the sword, which afterward was the cause of his death.

37Chapter III. How the Lady of the Lake demanded the knight’s head that had won the sword, or the maiden’s head.

38Chapter IV. How Merlin told the adventure of this damosel.

39Chapter V. How Balin was pursued by Sir Lanceor, knight of Ireland, and how he jousted and slew him.

40Chapter VI. How a damosel, which was love to Lanceor, slew herself for love, and how Balin met with his brother Balan.

41Chapter VII. How a dwarf reproved Balin for the death of Lanceor, and how King Mark of Cornwall found them, and made a tomb over them.

42Chapter VIII. How Merlin prophesied that two the best knights of the world should fight there, which were Sir Lancelot and Sir Tristram.

43Chapter IX. How Balin and his brother, by the counsel of Merlin, took King Rience and brought him to King Arthur.

44Chapter X. How King Arthur had a battle against Nero and King Lot of Orkney, and how King Lot was deceived by Merlin, and how twelve kings were slain.

45Chapter XI. Of the interment of twelve kings, and of the prophecy of Merlin, and how Balin should give the dolorous stroke.

46Chapter XII. How a sorrowful knight came before Arthur, and how Balin fetched him, and how that knight was slain by a knight invisible.

47Chapter XIII. How Balin and the damosel met with a knight which was in likewise slain, and how the damosel bled for the custom of a castle.

48Chapter XIV. How Balin met with that knight named Garlon at a feast, and there he slew him, to have his blood to heal therewith the son of his host.

49Chapter XV. How Balin fought with King Pellam, and how his sword brake, and how he gat a spear wherewith he smote the dolorous stroke.

50Chapter XVI. How Balin was delivered by Merlin, and saved a knight that would have slain himself for love.