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Bibliography of King Arthur

This is a bibliography of works about King Arthur, his family, his friends or his enemies. This bibliography includes works that are notable or are by notable authors.

by Gildas (mentions the Battle of Mons Badonicus, but famously neglects to mention Arthur[1])

De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae

attributed to Nennius

Historia Brittonum

, anonymous

Annales Cambriae

The Legend of St. , anonymous c. 1019 (Saxon resurgence when Arthur is "recalled from the actions of the world" may be a reference to his immortality.;[2] Vortigern mentioned)

Goeznovius

by Lifris of Llancarfan c. 1086 (Arthur wants to ravish Gwladys whom Gundliauc elopes with, but aids them by Kay and Bedivere's counsel. St. Cadoc harbors a killer of Arthur's men and pays cattle as recompense, but they transform into bundles of ferns.[3])

Vita Sancti Cadoc

, anonymous, c. 1100

Culhwch and Olwen

by Guillaume le Clerc 1190s/1200s

Roman de Fergus

c. 1180 – c. 1225 (Occitan verse)

Jaufré

c. 1200 – c. 1225 by Raoul (sometimes identified as Raoul de Houdenc)[17]

La Vengeance Raguidel

Lancelot-Grail

, anonymous, c. 1210s

Perlesvaus

by "Luce de Gat" (1230s) and "Helie de Boron" (c. 1240)

Prose Tristan

anonymous begun 1230s, finished 1240s

Post-Vulgate Cycle

composed between 1235 and 1240

Palamedes

anonymous c. 1250 [18]

L'âtre périlleux

, c. 1250

The Marvels of Rigomer

by Heldrius de Cornwall c. 1260s

Roman de Silence

Roman de Roi Artus

Gyron le courtois

, anonymous

Alliterative Morte Arthure

, anonymous

Stanzaic Morte Arthur

The Avowyng of Arthur

, anonymous

The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle

, anonymous

The Awntyrs off Arthure

(not closely related to Chrestien's Cliges; set in Uther Pendragon's court)

Sir Cleges

by The Pearl Poet

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

by Thomas Chestre (a remaking of the lai of Lanval)

Sir Launfal

Sir Libeaus Desconus

Yvain and Gawain

Sir Perceval of Galles

Lancelot of the Laik

Arthur

by Sir Thomas Malory

Le Morte d'Arthur

Prose Merlin

""

King Arthur and King Cornwall

Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle

Arthur of Little Britain

[22]

c. 1500

The Greene Knight

(ballad in the Percy Folio, chastity test story of the "ill-fitting mantle" and the horn)

The Boy and the Mantle

1508

The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain

The Jeaste of Sir Gawain

by Thomas Hughes, 1587

The Misfortunes of Arthur

by Edmund Spenser, 1590

The Faerie Queene

Tom a Lincoln

, or, The Childe Hath Found His Father by William Rowley (?1620; first published 1662)

The Birth of Merlin

, published by J. White (1711)

The History of Jack and the Giants

by W. H. Ireland (1799) (a Shakespearian forgery)

Vortigern and Rowena

"" (1805)

Arthur o' Bower

The Lady of Shalott

The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by (1862)

James Knowles

by Sidney Lanier (1880)

The Boy's King Arthur

by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1882)

Tristram of Lyonesse

by Mark Twain (1889)

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Howard Pyle

The Story of King Arthur and His Knights

(1905) by Natsume Sōseki

Kairo-kō

The Life of Sir Aglovale de Galis (1905) by [23]

Clemence Housman

War in Heaven (1930) by , a "modern-day" (20th century) quest for the Holy Grail

Charles W. S. Williams

The Little Wench (1935) by

Philip Lindsay

Merlin's Godson

King of the World's Edge

Taliessin through Logres (1938) and The Region of the Summer Stars (1944) by (poem cycles)

Charles W. S. Williams

The Once and Future King

(1945) by C. S. Lewis

That Hideous Strength

(1951) by John Cowper Powys

Porius (A Romance of the Dark Ages)

(1953) by Roger Lancelyn Green

King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

(1956) by Henry Treece

The Great Captains

Rosemary Sutcliff

The Lantern Bearers

(1963) by Keith Laumer

A Trace of Memory

The Crystal Cave

(1975) by John Steinbeck

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

The Mabinogion Tetralogy (1974) by Evangeline Walton.

by Thomas Berger (1978)

Arthur Rex: A Legendary Novel

(1978) and The Enchantresses (1998) by Vera Chapman (the latter with Mike Ashley)

The Three Damosels

(1980) by David J. Shirt

The Old French Tristan Poems

(1983) by Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Mists of Avalon

(1984) by René Barjavel

L'Enchanteur

The White Raven (1988) by (Tristan and Isseult)

Diana L. Paxson

Taliesin

Child of the Northern Spring

(1987), One Knight Only (2004) and Fall of Knight (2007) by Peter David

Knight Life

(1988) by Joan Wolf

The Road to Avalon

The King (1990) by

Donald Barthelme

The Dragon and the Unicorn

(1994), The High Queen (1995), (collected in Queen of Camelot (2002)), Prince of Dreams (2004), and Grail Prince (2003) by Nancy McKenzie

The Child Queen

(1998) by Nancy Springer

I Am Mordred

by Diana L. Paxson: The Book of the Sword (1999), The Book of the Spear (1999), The Book of the Cauldron (1999), The Book of the Stone (2000).

Hallowed Isle

Guenevere, Queen of the Summer Country

The Warlord Chronicles

Sword of the Rightful King

The Squire's Tale

The Forever King

by Nikolai Tolstoy (1988)

The Coming of the King: The First Book of Merlin

Stones of Power

Anonymous

King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

Naomi Mitchison (1955)

To the Chapel Perilous

Artorius by

John Heath-Stubbs

Quirinius, Britannia's Last Roman by (2021)

Erik Hildinger

by Anthony Price (1975) (The sixth book in the Dr. David Audley series uses the Arthur myth as a MacGuffin in a modern spy thriller.)

Our Man in Camelot

Firelord

The Tales of Arthur

The Hawk's Grey Feather

A Dream of Eagles

The Lost Years of Merlin Epic

The Lost Years of Merlin

, a trilogy of historical novels by British author Patrick McCormack (1997, 2000, 2007)

Albion

and The Empty Throne by Janice Elliott, set in a Medieval-style society several generations after a nuclear war. Both novels deal with the return of King Arthur and his friendship with a youth from the post-holocaust world

The King Awakes

Merlin's Bones by

Fred Saberhagen

by Phyllis Ann Karr

The Idylls of the Queen

by Wallace Breem; the coming of Arthur is foreseen by the chief of Segontium in the last page of the book

Eagle in the Snow

by Elizabeth Wein

The Winter Prince

by David Drake

The Dragon Lord

(1975) by Andre Norton

Merlin's Mirror

(1995) by Deepak Chopra

The Return of Merlin

Guinevere series (1996), by Sharan Newman.

Black Horses for the King (1996) by Anne McCaffrey.

, a comic book series that reincarnates Arthur and his knights in the far future

Camelot 3000

, a series written for older children and young adults, by Susan Cooper

The Dark Is Rising

, a fantasy trilogy by Canadian author Guy Gavriel Kay

The Fionavar Tapestry

, A puzzlehunt book which focused heavily on Merlin and Nimue having a love after Arthur has been entombed; it offered a cash prize as well as a gold, silver, bronze and crystal wand. However, the puzzle went unsolved and the prize unclaimed.

The Merlin Mystery

Hawk of May

by Philip Lindsay

The Little Wench

(1978) by Robert Nye

Merlin

(1907) by Sara Hawks Sterling

A Lady of King Arthur's Court

series by Michael Scott mentions many artifacts and characters from Arthurian legend

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

The Magic Tree House Books

(2001) by Nancy Springer

I am Morgan le Fay

Tales of Guinevere series by .

Alice Borchardt

Corbenic by (2002)

Catherine Fisher

Tristan and Isolde (2002) series by

Rosalind Miles

Sword of the Rightful King by (2003)

Jane Yolen

The House of Pendragon

The Firebrand

by Rick Yancey (2005)

The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp

: Mordred, Bastard Son (2006)

Douglas Clegg

by Gen Urobuchi (2006–2007)

Fate/Zero

Dracula vs. King Arthur by Adam Beranek, and Chris Moreno (2007)

Christian Beranek

Orion and King Arthur by (2011)

Ben Bova

by Lisa Ann Sandell (2007)

Song of the Sparrow

Camelot Lost by Jessica Bonito () (2008)

Jessica McHugh

by Meg Cabot

Avalon High

The Sangreal Trilogy by

Amanda Hemingway

Sword of Darkness by

Kinley MacGregor

Knight of Darkness by

Kinley MacGregor

by Philip Reeve

Here Lies Arthur

The Book of Mordred by

Vivian Vande Velde

by Dee Marie (2008)

Sons of Avalon, Merlin's Prophecy

Sarah Zettel

Merlin's Dragon

The Great Tree of Avalon

Gwenhwyfar (2009) by .

Mercedes Lackey

The Seven Deadly Sins

series contains many Arthurian figures, including King Arthur's son as a central character (2013–2020)

The School for Good and Evil

by J.R.R. Tolkien (published 2013, written circa 1920–30s)

The Fall of Arthur

The Devices Trilogy by , starting with The Pendragon Protocol (2014)

Philip Purser-Hallard

by Kazuo Ishiguro (2015)

The Buried Giant

Garden of Avalon by

Kinoko Nasu

Camelot Rising

Seven Endless Forests by (2020)

April Genevieve Tucholke

Legendborn by (2020)

Tracy Deonn

Arthur's Britain by

Leslie Alcock

The Quest for Arthur's Britain by

Geoffrey Ashe

The Medieval Quest for Arthur by and Cory Rushton

Robert Rouse

by Nikolai Tolstoy (1985)

The Quest for Merlin

The Age of Arthur: A History of the British Isles from 350 to 650

John Morris

King Arthur: The Making of the Legend by

Nicholas J. Higham

King Arthur: Myth-Making and History by

Nicholas J. Higham

The Development of Arthurian Romance by

Roger Sherman Loomis

Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages edited by

Roger Sherman Loomis

List of works based on Arthurian legends

Bromwich, Rachel (1961), (snippet) (1st ed.), Cardiff: University of Wales Press

Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Welsh Triads

Lacy, Norris J., ed. (1986), The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, Garland

White, Richard, ed. (1997), , London: Dent, ISBN 0460879154

King Arthur in Legend and History

Camelot Project

Bibliography of International Arthurian Society