Arthurian Legends

storytellerknight:

Can we please stop with this mantra that the new King Arthur movie isn’t a faithful Arthurian adaptation? Legend of the Sword takes a deep dive into a lot of lesser known aspects of the legend. It tweaks them to make them it’s own but there are so many Arthurian references in the movie that my brain was spinning from delight. Ritchie and the writers clearly did their research and knew their way around the legend. Just because it doesn’t conform with the traditional cinematic Arthurian experience ::cough::lancelot/guinevere::cough:: doesn’t mean it’s unfaithful. Its just exploring some different aspects.

I really can’t wait to watch it. 

An interesting question! I admit I only associate the cross (because of his son Galahad), the lake or a lake, and the lance (because of his name).

fuckyeaharthuriana:

I wanted to write down in a post all the links of the download tag but only the ones about arthurian ancient texts, the ones that are many people want when they ask about “original arthurian legends”. So you will find those arthurian texts pre-1600 that I managed to find online.

Please, if you see mistakes or if you want to add links send me a message.

*I added the symbol * and bolded my favourite ones and the ones I consider fundamental (and this is my personal opinion).

• (~6th-century) De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae (Gildas)
• (~731) Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation (Bede)
• (~9th-century) The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
• (~828) Historia Brittonum (Nennius) *
• (~10th century) Annales Cambriae *
• (~1125) The Deeds of the English Kings (Williams of Malmesbury)
• (~1136) History of the Kings of Britain (Geoffrey of Monmouth) *
• (~1150) Vita Merlini (Geoffrey of Monmouth) *
• (~1155) Roman de Brut (Wace) *
• (~1170) Lanval (Marie de France)
• (~1170/1190) Four Romances (Chrétien de Troyes) *
• (~1190) Brut (Layamon)
• (~1250) Arthour and Merlin
• (~13th century) Perlesvaus (The High History of the Grail) *
• (~13th century) Morien  
• (13th century) Parzival (Wolfram von Eschenbach) 
• (~1375) The Avowying of Arthur
• (~14th century) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight *
• (~14th century) Libeaus Desconus
• (~14th century) Ywain and Gawain
• (~14th century) Sir Launfal (Thomas Chestre)
• (~14th century) Stanzaic Morte d’Arthur
• (~1400) The Alliterative Morte d’Arthur
• (~1400) Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle
• (~1440) Sir Perceval of Galles
• (~1450) The Jeaste of Sir Gawain
• (1485) Le Morte d’Arthur Volume 1 + Volume 2 (Thomas Malory) *
• (~15th century) The Awntyrs off Arthure
• (~15th century) The Wedding of sir Gawain and dame Ragnell *
• (~1500) The Greene Knight
• (~1500) The Boy and the Mantle
• (~1500) The Turke and Sir Gawain
• (~1500) The Knightly tale of Gologras and Gawain
• (1590/1596) The Faerie Queene (Edmind Spenser)
• (~16th-century) The Misfortunes of Arthur (Thomas Hughes)
• (~16th-century) Melora and Orlando suggested by marytennant

WELSH TEXTS with arthurian references

from the Red Book of Hengest

• Culhwch and Olwen *
• The dream of Macsen *
• Dialogue between Myriddin and his sister

from the Black Book of Carmarthen

• Dialogue of Myriddin and Taliesin
• The stanzas of graves
• Arthur and the porter *

from the Book of Taliesin

• The Spoils of Annwn *
• Song for Urien

Triads

• The triads of the horses *
• Welsh triads (Peniarth MS 54) *
• The twenty-four knights of the round table) *

Other

• Arthur and the Kaledywlch
• King Urien and Modron
• The quarrel of Arthur and Huail
• Trystan and Esyllt
• The dialogue of Melwas and Gwenhyfer (and the second version)

LIFE OF THE SAINTS

• The Legend of St. Goeznovius 
• The Life of St. Cadog
• The Life of St. Carannog version 1 – version 2
• The Life of St. Paternus
• The Life of Gildas
• The Life of St. Kentigern
• The Life of St. Illtud

THE BOOK OF ANEIRIN