Bibliography of King Arthur

This is a bibliography of works about King Arthur, his family, his friends or his enemies. This bibliography includes works that are notable or are by notable authors.

6th century

9th century

  • Historia Brittonum attributed to Nennius

10th century

Latin

  • Annales Cambriae, anonymous

Welsh

  • Preiddeu Annwfn attributed to Taliesin
  • Pa Gur yv y Porthaur (transl. Who Is the Gatekeeper?), anonymous (a dialogue between Arthur and a gatekeeper, in which he boasts about Cei's battle with the Cath Palug)
  • Englynion y Beddau (transl. Stanzas of the Graves), anonymous (Arthur's grave site is a mystery)

11th century

Latin

  • The Legend of St. Goeznovius, anonymous c. 1019 (Saxon resurgence when Arthur is "recalled from the actions of the world" may be a reference to his immortality.;[2] Vortigern mentioned)
  • Vita Sancti Cadoc by Lifris of Llancarfan c. 1086 (Arthur wants to ravish Gwladys whom Gundliauc elopes with, but aids them by Kay and Bedivere's counsel. St. Cadoc harbors a killer of Arthur's men and pays cattle as recompense, but they transform into bundles of ferns.[3])

Welsh

12th century

Welsh

Latin

French and Anglo-Norman

German

13th century

French, Anglo-Norman or Provençal

German

Norse

  • Brother Robert's prose renditions
    • Tristrams saga ok Ísöndar 1226 (Norse reworking Tristan by Thomas of Britain)
    • Ívens saga 1226 (Norse reworking of Chrétien's 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)
    • Parcevals saga
    • Valvens þáttr
    • Möttuls saga, adaptation of the "ill-fitting mantle" motif
  • Strengleikar (translations of lais mostly by Marie de France)
    • "Geitarlauf" (translation of Chevrefoil)
    • "Januals ljóð" (translation of Lanval)

English

Dutch

  • Roman van Walewein [nl] by Penninc and Pieter Vostaert [citation needed]
  • Roman van Ferguut (translation and reworking of the Roman de Fergus)
  • The Lancelot Compilation (an adaptation of the Lancelot-Grail and other romances, 10 in all:[19])
    • Lanceloet
    • Perchevael
    • Moriaen (Morien)
    • Queeste vanden Grale [nl]
    • Wrake van Ragisel (adaptation of Vengeance Raguidel)
    • Ridder metter mouwen ("The Knight with the Sleeve" )
    • Walewein ende Keye
    • Lanceloet en het hert met de witte voet ("Lancelot and the Stag with the White Foot")
    • Torec by Jacob van Maerlant
    • Arturs doet

Hebrew

  • Melech Artus (transl. King Artus), a 1279 Hebrew translation, and the first in that language, which was published in Italy. Contains several short parts of the Vulgate Cycle: the Pendragon's seduction of Igraine and Arthur's death. Total of 5 pages, at the end of a larger codex on calendar astronomy titled Sefer ha-I'bbur ("the book of making leap years"). Anonymous author.[20]

Welsh

14th century

English

Welsh

(All dates for the Welsh compositions are controversial)

Italian

  • Tavola Rottonda, anonymous [citation needed]

French

Catalan

Greek

  • O Presbus Ippotes (Ὁ Πρέσβυς Ἱππότης, transl. The Old Knight; a Greek reworking of part of Rustichello da Pisa's Compilations) [citation needed]

15th century

English

Italian

Icelandic

  • Skikkjurímur, (a rendition of the "ill-fitting mantle" story) [citation needed]

Breton

16th century

English

Welsh

  • Tristan Romance, preserved in fragmentary form in several MSS. [citation needed]

Byelo-Russian

  • Povest' o Tryshchane [be] 1560s [citation needed]

Yiddish

  • Viduvilt (Yiddish reworking of Wigalois)

17th century

English

  • Works of Richard Johnson
    • Tom a Lincoln (1607)
    • The History of Tom Thumbe, the Little, for his small stature surnamed, King Arthurs Dwarfe (1621)
  • The Birth of Merlin, or, The Childe Hath Found His Father 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)

18th century

19th century

20th century

English

Welsh

21st century

Nonfiction

Depictions in other media

References

  1. ^ Lacy 1986, Gildas.
  2. ^ White 1997
  3. ^ White 1997, pp. 13–16)
  4. ^ Lacy 1997 pages 565–7, GA (Geoffrey Ashe), "Triads"[full citation needed]
  5. ^ Bromwich 1961.
  6. ^ Bromwich 1961, pp. 97–121
  7. ^ a b Bromwich 1961, p. cxxx "Period of the Cywyddwyr"
  8. ^ Bromwich 1961, appendix IV, pp. 250–255.
  9. ^ White 1997, pp. 16–17
  10. ^ Lacy 1986, p. 471, GA, "Saints' Lives, Arthur in"
  11. ^ de la Borderie, Arthur, ed. (1891). "Saint Efflam, texte inédit de la vie ancienne de ce saint". Annales de Bretagne. VII. Facultés des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Universities of Rennes et Nantes: 279–. (p.299)
  12. ^ White 1997, pp. 22–23
  13. ^ Lacy 1986, p. 630, KGM (Kenneth G. Madison), "William of Malmesbury"
  14. ^ Green, Cynthia Whiddon (1998). "Jocelyn, a monk of Furness: The Life of Kentigern (Mungo)". Fordham University. Retrieved 25 December 2012., Chapter xlv, "Laleocen"
  15. ^ White 1997, pp. 24
  16. ^ Le lai du cor et Le manteau mal taillé : les dessous de la Table ronde, Koble, Nathalie; Baumgartner, Emmanuèle, (Paris: Éditions Rue d'Ulm, 2005)
  17. ^ Lacy 1999 p. 595[full citation needed]
  18. ^ see 'The Perilous Graveyard: a text edition': http://opencommons.uconn.edu/dissertations/AAI9906544/ [accessed 1st Feb 2018]
  19. ^ Lacy 1999 pp. 387–8, BB (Bart Besamusca), "Middle Dutch Arthurian Literature"[full citation needed]
  20. ^ Curt Leviant. King Artus: A Hebrew Arthurian Romance of 1279. Syracuse University Press, 2003. For the Manuscript: Mss. Urb. Ebr. 48 in the Vatican Library, pp. 75r–77r.
  21. ^ "Guillem de Torroella"
  22. ^ The Sixteenth Century Editions of "Arthur of Little Britain", G.E. Mitchell, Revue belge de Philologie et d'Histoire Année 1972 50-3 pp. 793-795. Online at Persée.fr (retrieved June 12, 2023)
  23. ^ Brian Stableford, (2009), The A to Z of Fantasy Literature, page 205. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0810868296
  • Bromwich, Rachel (1961), Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Welsh Triads (snippet) (1st ed.), Cardiff: University of Wales Press
  • Lacy, Norris J., ed. (1986), The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, Garland
  • White, Richard, ed. (1997), King Arthur in Legend and History, London: Dent, ISBN 0460879154

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