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Arthurian Legend
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Age of Arthur - An essay on the historic King Arthur, his life and times.
An Archeological Quest for the Real Arthur: Overview of the attempts to find the remains of King Arthur from the University
of Idaho
3. Arthur: The Matter of Britain - List of links with brief annotations.
4. Arthurian Legend - Le Morte d'Arthur pictures by Francoise Taylor, a summary of Sir Thomas Malory's story, an Arthurian
search engine, and other Arthurian legend topics.
5. Arthurian Resources - Early Medieval Concepts of Arthur - Essays analyzing the Arthurian sources, by Thomas Green.
6. Arthurian Tradition and Avalon - Group discussion on all aspects of Arthurian Lore including History, Literature and
Mythical.(Requires joining the Yahoo's Group to access material.)
7. Arthuriana: The Journal of Arthurian Studies - Abstracts and paid access to articles, along with subscription and submission
details, the Arthurnet e-mail list, and suggested readings and teaching materials.
8. Britannia.com: King Arthur - Extensive collection of Arthurian resources at Britannia Internet Magazine.
9. Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia ABC-CLIO ebook; login required
10. Celtic Twilight - Legends of Camelot - Presents texts, infopedia, and list of Arthurian artists.
11. Encyclopedia Mythica: Arthurian Legend - Section edited by Brian Edward Rise.
12. Encyclopedia of Barbarian Europe: Society in Transformation ABC-CLIO ebook; login required
13. Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature ABC-CLIO ebook; login required.
14. Heretic Emperor: The Lost History of King Arthur - Analysis of the Arthurian legend and its historical roots. The real King
Arthur was guardian of an heretical British Church, his story erased from the record by history’s victors.
15. King Arthur - Overview provided by the village of Caerleon, reputed location of King Arthur's Camelot.
16. King Arthur & The Knights of the Round Table - Visitors can view a time line of significant events,read a summarized version
of the legend, and retrieve information on well-known objects and characters.
17. King Arthur on EBK - The King Arthur section of the Early British Kingdoms website, largely covering the historical but also
the literary Arthur.
18. King Arthur: Brittania History examines the historical background and mythological evolution of King Arthur from medieval
era to the present.
19. King Arthur: History & Legend - A comprehensive information resource for the times, places, events and people of British
history.
20. King Arthur's Labyrinth - An investigation into the Welsh version of the tales - with visual and audio effects.
21. Legends: King Arthur and the Matter of Britain - Annotated guide to resources on the net.
22. Lugodoc's Guide to Arthurian Myth - Provides a list of lost and surviving historical manuscripts pertaining to Arthurian
legend.
23. Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs ABC-CLIO ebook; login required
24. Merrie Haskell's King Arthur - Examines the legends of King Arthur in their historical and political context.
25. Mysteries in History: From Prehistory to the Present: ABC-CLIO ebook; login required.
26. Mystical WWW: King Arthur Fact, Semi-legend or Myth? - Crash course in all the names and legends.
27. The Arthurian Legend - The basic myth of King Arthur and its link to Celtic mythology.
28. The Camelot Project - Electronic database of Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information, by the
University of Rochester.
29. The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester: “Arthurian text, images, bibliographies and basic information.
30. The Labyrinth: Georgetown University listing of resources for Medieval Studies
31. The Legends of King Arthur - Brief overview of some of the common elements of the Arthurian legends, along with slides.
32. The Quest - A complete Arthurian resource.
33. The Quest - An Arthurian Resource - Overview of characters, history, art and origins, prepared by University of Idaho
students.
34. Thomas Green’s Arthurian Resources Site: current academic studies on early origins of Arthurian Legend
35. Timeless Myths: Arthurian Legends - Offers a reference section for the characters found in the Arthurian Legends, as well as
a collection of tales and romances.
Original Texts
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Four Arthurian Romances - Complete text by Crétien de Troyes (Project Gutenberg)
Le Mort d'Arthur - Volume 1 - Complete text by Thomas Malory (Project Gutenberg)
Le Mort d'Arthur - Volume 2 - Complete text by Thomas Malory (Project Gutenberg)
The Court of King Arthur - Complete text by Samuel E. Lowe
The High History of the Holy Graal - E-text based on the translation by Sebastian Evans (1898) of an anonymous 13th
century Old French work.
NetSERF: Medieval Literature by Author - Works organised by title and author, with links to collections of works.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - A 14th Century poem by an anonymous author in the original Middle English.
Translations of each verse are provided for convenience.
Middle English Dictionary - Ongoing project offering analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Character Analysis of Sir Gawain: short essay from Pace University on the behavior and motivations of Sir Gawain.
Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature: ABC-CLIO EBook; login required
Historical Context and the role in Arthurian Literature of The Green Knight
http://translate.dc.gov/ma/enwiki/en/Green_Knight#Historical_context
Images from different authors http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/gawmenu.htm#images
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Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs: ABC-CLIO EBook; login
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Pace University’s Sir Gawain Museum page http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projs4a/gawain.htm
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight - "Various online texts, essays, articles, and resources for Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight." Luminarium.org's resource for information related to the Pearl Poet's most well-known work.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Analysis of main character, imaginary monologues by Gawain in HTML and sound
format, links. Student work by Kim Neininger.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Online text of the translation by J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Online translation of excerpts from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Full text of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Jessie L. Weston
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:A modern English translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight: Sir Gawain and The Green Knight translated by. W. A. Neilson in PDF printable
format
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Website - Bibliography, readings, essays, websites, links to various translations.
Compiled by Roger Hartill.
Sir Gawain and the Greene Knight - Collected links from LAUSD net.
Summary of Sir Gawain and The Green Knight http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/prjf72a/firstpag.html
The Characteristics of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/iacd_99F/medieval_lit/sirgawain/analysis.html#A.%20The%20Characteristics%20of%20Sir%20G
awain%20and%20the%20Green
18. Themes, Symbolism, Interpretations and Modern Adaptations of Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
http://www.worldlingo.com/ma/enwiki/en/Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight/1
19. Welcome to the Sir Gawain Room - Student project analyzing the poem of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Articles Links from GALE Literature
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Arthurian Legends
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Brault, Gerald J. "Chretien de Troyes: Overview." Reference Guide to World Literature. Ed. Lesley Henderson. 2nd
ed. New York: St. James Press, 1995. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 30 Sept. 2010
<http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
Brooke, Christopher. "Geoffrey of Monmouth as a Historian." Church and Government in the Middle Ages. Ed. C. N.
L. Brooke Cambridge University Press, 1976. 77-91. Rpt. in Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism. Ed. Jelena
O. Krstovic. Vol. 44. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 30
Sept. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
Caldwell, Robert A. "Geoffrey Monmouth, Prince of Liars." The North Dakota Quarterly. 31.1 & 2 (Winter-Spring
1963): 46-51. Rpt. in Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism. Ed. Jelena O. Krstovic. Vol. 44. Detroit: Gale
Group, 2001. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 30 Sept. 2010
<http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
Furtado, Antonio L. "Geoffrey of Monmouth: A Source of the Grail Stories." Quondam et Futurus. 1.1 (Spring 1991):
1-14. Rpt. in Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism. Ed. Jelena O. Krstovic. Vol. 44. Detroit: Gale Group,
2001. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 30 Sept. 2010
<http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
Ingram, Amy L. "Psychology of a king: Arthur in the Lancelot-Graal cycle." Philological Quarterly. (Vol. 82). .4 (Fall
2003): p349. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 30 Sept. 2010
<http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
Kleiman, Irit Ruth. "X marks the spot: the place of the father in Chretien de Troyes's Conte du Graal ." The Modern
Language Review. (Vol. 103). .4 (Oct. 2008): p969. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
30 Sept. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
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Lloyd-Morgan, Ceridwen. "Juliette Wood, Eternal Chalice: The Enduring Legend of the Holy Grail ." Medium Aevum.
(Vol. 79). .1 (Spring-Summer 2010): p130. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 30 Sept.
2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
Putter, Ad. "King Arthur at Oxbridge: Nicholas Cantelupe, Geoffrey of Monmouth, and Cambridge's Arthurian foundation
myth." Medium Aevum. (Vol. 72). .1 (Spring 2003): p63. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public
Library. 30 Sept. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
Seaman, Gerald. "Chretien de Troyes." Literature of the French and Occitan Middle Ages: Eleventh to Fifteenth
Centuries. Ed. Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi and Ian S. Laurie. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 208. Detroit:
Gale Group, 1999. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 30 Sept. 2010
<http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
Smith, Jeanette C. "The role of women in contemporary Arthurian fantasy." Extrapolation. (Vol. 35). .2 (Summer
1994): p130. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 30 Sept. 2010
<http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
Smith, Julianne. "The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief." Christianity and Literature. (Vol. 54). .1 (Autumn 2004):
p133. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 30 Sept. 2010
<http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
Wood, Juliette. "The Holy Grail: From Romance Motif to Modern Genre." Folklore. (Vol. 111). .2 (Oct. 2000): p169.
Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 30 Sept. 2010
<http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
Zimmer, Y Heinrich. "Four Romances from the Cycle of King Arthur." The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's
Conquest of Evil. Ed. Joseph Campbell Pantheon Books, 1948. 67-201. Rpt. inClassical and Medieval Literature
Criticism. 2.Rpt. in Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism. Ed. Jelena O. Krstovic. Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale
Research, 1988. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 30 Sept. 2010
<http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism. Ed. Lynn M. Zott. Vol. 54. Detroit:
Gale Group, 2002. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 30 Sept. 2010
<http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
"The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ." Medium Aevum. (Vol.
77). .2 (Fall-Winter 2008): p363. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 30 Sept. 2010
<http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
Bercovitch, Sacvan. "Romance and Anti-Romance in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Critical Studies of "Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight,". Ed. Donald R. Howard and Christian Zacher Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame
Press, 1968. 257-266. Rpt. in Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism. Ed. Lynn M. Zott. Vol. 54. Detroit: Gale
Group, 2002. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 30 Sept. 2010
<http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
Blanch, Robert J. "Sir Gawain And the Green Knight: Overview." Reference Guide to English Literature. Ed. D. L.
Kirkpatrick. 2nd ed. Chicago: St. James Press, 1991. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
30 Sept. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
Lenz, Joseph M. "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." The Promised End: Romance Closure in the "Gawain"-Poet,
Malory, Spenser, and Shakespeare. New York: Peter Lang, 1986. 31-44. Rpt. in Classical and Medieval Literature
Criticism. Ed. Lynn M. Zott. Vol. 54. Detroit: Gale Group, 2002. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles
Public Library. 30 Sept. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
Markman, Alan M. "The Meaning of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." PMLA. 72.4 (Sept. 1957): 574-586. Rpt.
inWorld Literature Criticism Supplement. 1.Rpt. in World Literature Criticism, Supplement 1-2: A Selection of
Major Authors from Gale's Literary Criticism Series. Ed. Polly Vedder. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1997. Literature
Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 30 Sept. 2010
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Moll, Richard J. "Frustrated readers and conventional decapitation in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.'(Critical Essay)."
The Modern Language Review. (Vol. 97). .4 (Oct. 2002): 793-802. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles
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Pearsall, Derek. "Gawain Poet: Overview." Reference Guide to English Literature. Ed. D. L. Kirkpatrick. 2nd ed.
Chicago: St. James Press, 1991. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 30 Sept. 2010
<http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
Randall, Dale B. J. "Was the Green Knight a Fiend?." Studies in Philology. 57.3 (July 1960): 479-491. Rpt. in Classical
and Medieval Literature Criticism. Ed. Jelena O. Krstovic. Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale Research, 1988. Literature
Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 30 Sept. 2010
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Savage, Henry Lyttleton. "An excerpt fromThe Gawain-Poet: Studies in His Personality and Background." The University
of North Carolina Press, 1956. Rpt. in Literature Resource Center. Detroit: Gale, Literature Resource Center.
Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 30 Sept. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
Speirs, John. "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Scrutiny. 16.4 (Winter 1949): 274-300. Rpt. inClassical and
Medieval Literature Criticism. 2.Rpt. in Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism. Ed. Jelena O. Krstovic. Vol. 2.
Detroit: Gale Research, 1988. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 30 Sept. 2010
<http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
Tristan and Isolde
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Batts, Michael S. "Gottfried von Strassburg." German Writers and Works of the High Middle Ages, 1170-1280. Ed.
James N. Hardin and Will Hasty. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 138.
Literature Resource Center. Web. 30 Sept. 2010. Document URL
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Jillings, Lewis. "Gottfried von Strassburg: Overview." Reference Guide to World Literature. Ed. Lesley Henderson.
2nd ed. New York: St. James Press, 1995. Literature Resource Center. Web. 30 Sept. 2010. Document URL
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Shumway, Daniel Bussier. "The Moral Element in Gottfried's Tristan und Isolde." Modern Philology 1.3 (Jan.
1904): 423-436. Rpt. in Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism 1. Rpt. in Classical and Medieval Literature
Criticism. Ed. Jelena O. Krstovic. Vol. 10. Detroit: Gale Research, 1993. Literature Resource Center. Web. 30 Sept.
2010. Document URL
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Article Links from JSTOR
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Arthurian Romance
Tristan and Isolde
Le Morte D’Arthur
Sir Thomas Malory
The Quest for the Holy Grail