anna x
I want to read about the Arthurian legend, but I know there are many versions out there. In your opinion, what is the best one to start with (and why)?
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G'day Anna X,
Thank you for your question.
Le Morte D'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table by Sir Thomas Malory was first published in 1485 and is the book that consolidated the legend.
Wikipedia has an extensive list of books on Arthur from the 9th century including a list of non-fiction books at the bottom.
Regards
Regards
G'day Anna X,
Thank you for your question.
Le Morte D'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table by Sir Thomas Malory was first published in 1485 and is the book that consolidated the legend.
Wikipedia has an extensive list of books on Arthur from the 9th century including a list of non-fiction books at the bottom.
Regards
Regards
King Arthur?
nikkiii.
can anyone tell me about king arthur and his quests? cause i know nothing and i need to do essay on it.
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In 1997 I did a summer abroad course in London, with a 3-day trip to Cornwall (southeast of England), on Legend of King Arthur. It was magical. We toured Tintagel, a ruined, romantic castle; we saw Glastonbury with its Chalice Well and the Tor. Glastonbury is rumored to be the final resting place of King Arthur on the isle of Avalon. And we saw Bodiam Castle and a few mounds that were not excavated that could have been castles hundreds of years ago.
King Arthur was the son of Uther Pendragon. From the start, the tale of Arthur was filled with magic, lies and deceit. For all that the time of Arthur was supposed to have been a magical, better, simpler time, there are threads of tragedy running through the story. Merlin bespelled Uther to make him look like King Mark. Uther-as-Mark went in and made love to Arthur's mother, got her pregnant with Arthur. So from the start, Arthur was not conceived honestly.
The most famous legends center around Guinevere, Arthur's wife, who loved Arthur, but who loved the handsome knight Sir Lancelot more. Eventually Arthur caught Guinevere cheating with Lancelot. The love triangle is a central feature of all Arthurian legend. Central also to the legend is the sorcerer Merlin who helped Arthur come into being by putting the spell on his father, and who helps and guides Arthur to be king... and yet Merlin appears and vanishes many times.
Arthur became king as a boy because he pulled a sword from a stone. He had been fostered to an older man and woman, and they had a son who was older than Arthur, named Sir Kai (rhymes with sky). Sir Kai took Arthur as his page, and they went to a tournament, but Sir Kai forgot his best sword, and told Arthur to go and get him one. Arthur ran out, saw a sword in a stone, and pulled it out, but he had no idea what he did. People at the tournament made Arthur put the sword in and pull it out many times; no one else could pull it out, and everyone had a go. Because legend told that whoever could pull the sword from the stone deserved to be king, Arthur became King of Britain.
The legends and off-shoot stories surrounding the Arthurian cycle are many. There are stories of the Grail quest, Sir Lancelot, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Parsifal, Morgan le Fay, and more. It's huge, but I'd sincerely recommend _Mists of Avalon_ by Marion Zimmer Bradley; it tells the Arthurian cycle from the women's point of view. Search amazon.com and you will find dozens, if not hundreds of books on King Arthur. There are even Master's and PhD study programs for Arthurian studies, so you see that it can easily become a lifetime study project.
Good luck and I hope this helps. Cheers, K (a teacher)
In 1997 I did a summer abroad course in London, with a 3-day trip to Cornwall (southeast of England), on Legend of King Arthur. It was magical. We toured Tintagel, a ruined, romantic castle; we saw Glastonbury with its Chalice Well and the Tor. Glastonbury is rumored to be the final resting place of King Arthur on the isle of Avalon. And we saw Bodiam Castle and a few mounds that were not excavated that could have been castles hundreds of years ago.
King Arthur was the son of Uther Pendragon. From the start, the tale of Arthur was filled with magic, lies and deceit. For all that the time of Arthur was supposed to have been a magical, better, simpler time, there are threads of tragedy running through the story. Merlin bespelled Uther to make him look like King Mark. Uther-as-Mark went in and made love to Arthur's mother, got her pregnant with Arthur. So from the start, Arthur was not conceived honestly.
The most famous legends center around Guinevere, Arthur's wife, who loved Arthur, but who loved the handsome knight Sir Lancelot more. Eventually Arthur caught Guinevere cheating with Lancelot. The love triangle is a central feature of all Arthurian legend. Central also to the legend is the sorcerer Merlin who helped Arthur come into being by putting the spell on his father, and who helps and guides Arthur to be king... and yet Merlin appears and vanishes many times.
Arthur became king as a boy because he pulled a sword from a stone. He had been fostered to an older man and woman, and they had a son who was older than Arthur, named Sir Kai (rhymes with sky). Sir Kai took Arthur as his page, and they went to a tournament, but Sir Kai forgot his best sword, and told Arthur to go and get him one. Arthur ran out, saw a sword in a stone, and pulled it out, but he had no idea what he did. People at the tournament made Arthur put the sword in and pull it out many times; no one else could pull it out, and everyone had a go. Because legend told that whoever could pull the sword from the stone deserved to be king, Arthur became King of Britain.
The legends and off-shoot stories surrounding the Arthurian cycle are many. There are stories of the Grail quest, Sir Lancelot, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Parsifal, Morgan le Fay, and more. It's huge, but I'd sincerely recommend _Mists of Avalon_ by Marion Zimmer Bradley; it tells the Arthurian cycle from the women's point of view. Search amazon.com and you will find dozens, if not hundreds of books on King Arthur. There are even Master's and PhD study programs for Arthurian studies, so you see that it can easily become a lifetime study project.
Good luck and I hope this helps. Cheers, K (a teacher)
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