interactions with the arthurian tradition
There's a bogus theory on the internet which says that each of us will have only three loves in our lifetime: a first love, an intense love, and an unconditional love.
My first encounter with the Arthurian tradition was hunting for fragments of Excalibur in Tomb Raider: Legend, one of my favourite games.
My second was watching the BBC programme Merlin, a guilty pleasure that ended up breaking my heart.
My third was after I picked up a copy of Chretien de Troyes' Arthurian Romances from a secondhand bookshop.
The moment Lancelot climbed into that cart, I was locked in.
where i'd recommend you start...
watch this space!
texts i've read and own a copy
The Mabinogion
The Book of Taliesin
Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain
The Lais of Marie de France
Beroul, The Romance of Tristan
♡ Chretien de Troyes, Arthurian Romances ♡
The Death of King Arthur ♡
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Thomas Love Peacock, The Misfortunes of Elphin
♡ Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King ♡
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fall of Arthur
♡ T. H. White, The Sword in the Stone, The Once and Future King, The Book of Merlyn ♡
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
Kat Howard, A Cathedral of Myth and Bone
Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora, Once & Future
texts i've read but don't own a copy
Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle - TEAMS
The Carle of Carlisle - TEAMS
The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle - TEAMS
Amy Rose Capetta and Cory McCarthy, Once & Future
texts i do not care to finish
Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
fave arthurian media
the sword in the stone (1963)
♡ camelot (1967) ♡
lancelot du lac (1974)
monty python and the holy grail (1975)
♡ excalibur (1981) ♡
knightriders (1981)
♡ merlin (2008-2012) ♡
the kid who would be king (2019)
fave arthurian games
tainted grail
texts i own and need to read
Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival
Alliterative Morte Arthure
Stanzaic Morte Arthur
Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
Alex Myers, The Story of Silence
Swapna and Northington, eds., Sword Stone Table
Nicola Griffith, Spear
Tracy Deonn, Bloodmarked
Annwn Press, Dark Reflections
Thomas D. Lee, Perilous Times
texts online
The Awntyrs off Arthur - TEAMS
Two Irish Romances - IA
next to watch
merlin (1998)
mists of avalon (2001)
next to play
tainted grail: the fall of avalon
king arthur: knight's tale
Resources - texts
Resources - visual
utpictura18 - database, good for searching for miniatures
the heraldry society - arthurian coats of arms
Music and Theatre Available Online
Silence: A 13th Century Medieval Adventure, a stage production- YT
Artus Excalibur, German musical, 2014 - YT
