Resources for Arthurian Legend

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General Sites

• 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.
• Arthurian Resources on the Internet:  An excellent 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. (Tom Green)
• The Quest:  Interesting site for background on a variety of aspects of Arthurian legend.  Attractively designed but slow-loading site.  (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.  Very useful, although still under construction.  (Tom Green)

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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.  
• Arthur's Britain:  Bibliography intended to provide "initial guidance" in Arthurian studies for students in an upper-division undergraduate history course.  Useful collection of sources.  (U. of Kansas)

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Online Discussion

• A Page for Arthurnet:  Web page for the Arthurnet discussion group on Arthurian legend.

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The Mabinogion

• Y Mabinogion:  The text of the Mabinogion, 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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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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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.  (U. of Rochester--Camelot Project)
  • Introduction
  • Part I
  • Part II
  • Part III
• 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.  (U. of Virginia)  For a useful introduction to the work, see the Camelot Project's Introduction to the Alliterative and Stanzaic Morte Arthurs.
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:  An anonymous fourteenth-century tale from the Arthurian tradition.  Presents a very different picture of Sir Gawain, and is perhaps the greatest poem of the "Alliterative Revival" in England.  (U. of Virginia)  See also materials on the Middle English Pearl.
• 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.