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- The Britannia Internet Magazine's King Arthur Site is enormous and features loads of essays on the subject including some on King Arthur and Early British Kingdoms.
- Alas, Chris Thornborrow's Avalon is no more - however his Arthurian FAQ and an essay of his entitled An Introduction to Current Theories about The Holy Grail survive.
- Jason Godesky's The Saxon Shore includes a etexts of Arthurian literature as well as historical essays and a number of well annotated links. (Broken Link 2/19/02)
- Judy Shoaf is the current moderator of Arthurnet, an Arthurian mailing list. This page maintains a number of suitable links.
- The Archives of Arthurnet are maintained at this site.
- Oxford Arthurian Society
- Thomas Green's Arthurian Resources contains a number of erudite essays on the History of Arthur, the characters, the places, and the literature among other things.
- John J. Doherty also maintains a listing of Arthurian resources both online and off, as well as an essay on recent Arthurian related fantasy.
- Celtic Twilight is an excellent site on the Matter of Britain. It includes an infopedia of Arthurian characters and a collection of translations of the major Arthurian works, including Lady Charlotte Guest's translation of the Welsh Mabinogion.
- Sources of British History excerpts from many early documents relating to Arthur including:
- Gildas a 6th century monk who mentions Aurellius Ambrosius and the battle at Badon.
- Jordanes' Gothic History a sixth century work which describes a battle led by Riothamus, who may have been the historical King Arthur.
- Elegy for Geraint, a sixth century Welsh poem, here in translation presents its subject as dying among Arthur's heroes.
- The ninth century Welsh historian, Nennius authored some of the earlier written references to Arthur in his Historia Brittonum
- The Annales Cambriae - written in Wales circa 970, this text mentiones Arthur at Badon and Arthur's and Mordred's (Medraut's) deaths.
- Under the patronage of Marie de Champagne from 1159 to 1191, Chretien de Troyes composed the some of the earliest Arthurian romances. His first work, Eric and Enide was proably written in 1169. It corresponds to the Welsh tale of Gereint and Enid, found in the Mabinogion.
- Chretien's second work, Cliges, dates to 1176.
- His La Chevalier de la Charrette is the earliest written work about Lancelot, composed in the late 1170's or 1180.
- Chretien's The Knight with the Lion was probably written at the same time as or shortly after La Chevalier de la Charrette and focuses on the deeds of Yvain. This story closely parallels that of Owein, or the Countess of the Fountain from the Welsh Mabinogion.
- Layamon's Brut was written around 1200 AD, drawing heavily from the tradition of Geoffrey of Monmouth and Wace.
- The High History of the Holy Graal is one of a number of continuations of Cretien's The Story of the Grail, (Percival). This one was composed in the early 1200's.
- Gawain and the Green Knight by the anonymous author of The Pearl, this work was written around 1370 in West Midland Middle English.
- The Alliterative Morte Arthure was written around 1400 AD, making use of the ending section of the French Prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle, 'Le Mort le Roi Artu'.
- In the late 15th century, Sir Thomas Malory composed what is probably the definitive work of Arthurian literature based on several sources, including the French prose Lancelot. In 1485, it was published after having a good deal of editting done by William Caxton under the title Le Morte D'Arthur(large file). Also found at Virginia is the second volume (large file) of that work.
- The library at the University of Rochester maintains a large variety of Arthurian texts at their Camelot Project
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson published his poetic novel, The Idylls of the King in 1859. Lancelot and Elaine is one episode from that work.
- In the late ninteenth century, Richard Wagner composed his opera Parzival based heavily on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parsifal, a thirteenth century work, which in turn draws on Chretien de Troyes' Percival (1187) and centers on that knight's quest for the Sangraal.
- The Arthurian Booklist grown from the old Camelot mailing list and maintained by Cindy Tittle Moore.
- Tyagi Nagasiva's Merlin Archive via ftp. (Broken Link 2/19/02)
- Adam Levin's thesis on The Death of King Arthur in history and literature.
- alt.legend.king-arthur
Anglo-Saxon
- Translated from the Old English by Francis B. Gummere, Beowulf was probably composed around 750 AD in Northumbria, although some of the events it mentions occured over 200 years earlier on the continent and features the titled hero's contests with Grendel, his mother the troll-wife, and a dragon.
- Durham Myths and Legends recounts the tale of the Lampton Worm on this site concerning the town of Durham in northern England.
Northumbrian
- Ned Ramm presents some pages on the History, Legends and Flags of Northumbria.
- Philip Atkinson's collection of Northumbrian Folk Tales include a number of stories such as The Witch of Seaton Delaval, The Lambton Worm, and The Stanhope Faeries.
Breton
- The Other Side features ghost stories and Breton folktales. (Broken Link 2/19/02)
- Eric Kemper's Tales pages tell of the Kingdom of Ys and Arthur in Breton among other tales. This page is in English and French.
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