Resources for Arthurian Legend

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General Sites and Portals

• The Camelot Project:  An excellent Arthurian site.  Has a wide selection of primary texts, including some not easily accessible elsewhere, as well as bibliographies and images.
• Arthuriana on the Web:  A brief guide to Arthurian sites.  Part of the ORB Bibliographies.  (ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies)
• Arthurian Resources on the Internet:  No longer currently maintained (updating stopped in 11/01), but still a valuable collection of links to online resources.  Includes scholarly resources and some non-scholarly ones.  (John J. Doherty)
• Arthurian Resources on the Internet:  A collection of links to critical and scholarly resources--articles, surveys, etc. Includes Arthurian links, a very useful portal page to other sites, online texts, etc. (Tom Green)
• The Quest:  Interesting site for background on a variety of aspects of Arthurian legend.  Attractively designed but not currently maintained; the last update was in 1999, and most of the resource links seem to date to 9/98.  (U. of Idaho)

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History and Chronology

• King Arthur and the Early British Kingdoms:  Excellent collection of historical materials.  Includes primary and secondary textual sources as well as a useful and very detailed historical timeline.  (Britannia)
• Arthuriana Chronology:  Very useful timeline of events associated with the Arthurian legends.  Includes historical events and literary works, as well as material from the visual arts and music.  (Affiliated with the journal Arthuriana)
• Llys Arthur:  Useful site on the historical background behind the legends.
• Historical King Arthur Web Site: More background on the historical figures and events behind the legends.
  

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People and Places

• A Gazetteer of Arthurian Sites :  Reference list of descriptions of places associated with the Arthurian legends.  (Affiliated with the journal Arthuriana)
• Arthurian A2Z Knowledge Bank:  Dictionary-style reference for looking up material on Arthurian characters, places, etc.  (Mystical WWW)
• Arthurian Characters:  An interesting scholarly guide to some of the important characters in the Arthurian cycle.  Also includes guides to Arthurian literature, places, etc.  (Note:  this site appears to be an earlier version of Tom Green's Arthurian Resources on the Internet; it is included separately here because I was unable to find some of the old site's materials at the new URL).

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Journals

• The Heroic Age:  A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe:  An online journal "dedicated to the study of Northwestern Europe from the Late Roman Empire to the advent of the Norman Empire."  Includes articles on Arthurian legend.  Full-text articles are publicly available online.
• Arthuriana:  An online journal on Arthurian studies.  Abstracts of articles are publicly available online; full-text articles require paid subscription.

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Bibliography

• Arthuriana/Camelot Project Bibliographies:  A group of online bibliographies covering a variety of aspects of Arthurian studies.  Extensive and very useful.  
• Basic Reading List for medieval Arthurian texts:  Describes itself as covering "recommended cheap (sort of), available (probably) translations of medieval Arthurian texts."  A useful starting point for additional reading.  (U. of Florida)

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Online Discussion

• A Page for Arthurnet:  Web page for the Arthurnet discussion group on Arthurian legend. Includes an extensive and useful links page.  For information on subscribing to Arthurnet, click on Arthurnet basics.

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Thomas Malory

• Mallory, Morte d'Arthur:  A modern-spelling version (published in 1903) of William Caxton's 1485 edition.  Includes useful introductory material (although the scholarship is obviously long out of date).  (U. of Virginia)

  • Books I-IX
  • Books X-XI

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The Mabinogion

• Y Mabinogion:  The earliest known literary versions of the Arthurian cycle.  Includes the text of the Mabinogion (in the Charlotte Guest translation), with some additional background material.  (Taffnet)
• Cymraeg:  A very brief page on the Welsh language; provides at least a little bit of help with pronunciation of names. (Taffnet)

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Additional Reading in the Arthurian Tradition

Selected works, mostly in the English tradition, which are available free online.

• The Camelot Project:  Menu of Authors:  An extensive collection of Arthurian texts, some impossible to obtain elsewhere online. (U. of Rochester)
• The Stanzaic Morte Arthur:  An anonymous fourteenth-century re-telling of the last years of King Arthur; one of the sources for Malory's Morte d'Arthur.  See also Benson and Foster's useful Introduction to the Stanzaic Morte Arthur and Alliterative Morte Arthure. (U. of Rochester--Camelot Project)
• The Alliterative Morte Arthure:  A slightly later anonymous fourteenth-century re-telling of the last years of King Arthur; one of the sources for Malory's Morte d'Arthur.  See also Benson and Foster's useful Introduction to the Stanzaic Morte Arthur and Alliterative Morte Arthure. (U. of Rochester -- Camelot Project)
• Chretien de Troyes:  Twelfth-century French poet; perhaps the greatest of the medieval French writers on Arthurian subjects.  Four of his works survive:
  • Lancelot, or the Knight of the Cart
  • Yvain, or the Knight with the Lion
  • Erec et Enide
  • Cliges
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King:  The classic nineteenth-century re-shaping of the Arthurian cycle. (U. of Rochester -- Camelot Project)
• See also Resources for the Gawain Poet.