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illustratus · 5 months

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"How Arthur drew his sword Excalibur for the first time."

by Arthur Rackham

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queer-ragnelle · 5 months

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Do you have a guide/a recommended reading list for getting into Arthurian legends? I’ve been really getting into it in the past few months but I feel like I’m missing out on a lot of the foundations of it. (If you don’t and this is too big of an ask totally feel free to ignore this lol)

hello, anon.

i don't currently although i have plans to add another page to my blog listing medieval texts as well as links to download pdfs of them. i have english translations of texts originating in belarussian, dutch, french, german, hebrew, italian, latin, middle english, and last but not least, welsh.

in the mean time, i've collected for you some key texts that are readily available to read for free online!

le morte d'arthur by sir thomas malory [part 1] [part 2]

the history of the britons by nennius [here]

the mabinogion translated by lady charlotte guest [here]

four romances by chrétien de troyes [here]

parzival by wolfram von eschenbach [part 1] [part 2]

the wedding of sir gawain and dame ragnelle translated by thomas hahn [here]

sir gawain and the green knight translated by j. r. r. tolkien [here]

better translations/formatting forthcoming! enjoy. :^)

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enchantedbook · 1 year

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Le Morte d'Arthur, Thomas Malory Artist : Aubrey Beardsley, 1893

#aubrey beardsley #Le Morte d'Arthur #sir thomas malory #Illustration

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lepetitdragonvert · 1 year

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The Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table

Abridged from Malory’s Morte d’Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard

MacMillan & Co

1917

Artist : Arthur Rackham

#arthur rackham #1917 #arthurian mythology #arthurian legend #arthurian literature #arthurian lore #sir thomas malory

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reyturnofbensolo · 1 year

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EXCALIBUR by Bob Peak!

#excalibur #king arthur #lady of the lake #john boorman #le morte d'arthur #sir thomas malory #bob peak

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dullyn · 13 days

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me, staring at my stack of arthurian myth books: i have to stay true to the source material 😔

me, writing that Hellawes has a dragon: so hear me out

#if malory can stare at the vulgate and post-vulgate and good ol GoM and then go: well actually #then i can do it too #writing #writer stuff #arthurian legend #arthuriana #hellawes #dragons #le morte d'arthur #sir thomas malory

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fallensapphires · 8 months

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Mythology: King Arthur

In the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand.

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we-are-knight · 2 years

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An early 20th century edition of Le Morte d'Arthur, first printed in 1910, reprinted in 1929, with notes by an owner from 1946.

Illustrated by Sir Russell Flint.

#books #knightcore #tomes #le morte d"arthur #arthurian #illustrations #Sir Thomas Malory #Sir Russell Flint

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wuuthering · 4 months

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haters gonna hate

#really #malorydaily #le morte d’arthur #sir thomas malory

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johnnyappleseede · 5 months

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A Paperback Comparison

Modern Penguin paperbacks

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Vintage Penguin paperbacks

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Oxford paperbacks

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As we can very well see, the vintage paperbacks (Le Morte D’Arthur included) put a greater emphasis on the artwork of the book—from the selected painting to represent the publication to the placement and choice and font type and where they placed their logo therein. The modern Penguin paperbacks places their logo now in an almost lace binding the book as if you are buying their brand rather than the work. Even the new Oxford paperback is nearly mirrouring a print-on demand Amazon sludge book. The craft of paperback died when the scourge of bookmaking came at the advent of the internet, and furtherances of the maligned, soul-sucking device like the eBook or Online Libraries. The system would like to take more power away from the Hand of Man. Thus making a cheaper product which advertises the brand over the work of art.

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Book listing:

“The 120 Days of Sodom” by The Marquis de Sade, 2016 print

“The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Œdipus the King, Œdipus at Colonus” by Sophocles, tr. Robert Fagles (1984), unkown print (but definitely 2010s)

“The Romance of Tristan” by Beroul, 1987 print by Penguin

“The Song of Roland” tr. Dorothy Sayers, 1984 print

“Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript” by Syr Thomas Malory, tr. Helen Cooper, 1998 print

“Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue” by The Marquis de Sade, tr. John Philips, 2012 print

#devolution of bookmaking #paperback comparisons #penguin classics #vintage #mediæval literature #American #marquis de sade #Sir Thomas Malory #Sophocles #Beroul

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illustratus · 1 year

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"How Beaumains defeated the Red Knight, and always the damosel spake many foul words unto him"

by Arthur Rackham

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queer-ragnelle · 4 months

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Feel like malory choose which characters he didnt like and which he did and then went through the motions of doing his retelling but that means stuff like Arthur doing the Mayday Massacre gets like a paragraph and has no influence on the narrative. Malory put a biblical exodus king/herod the great moment in there and then said “dont worry about it :]” meanwhile I literally cannot stop thinking about The Implications

he really did. the largest downside is malory was simplifying the post vulgate, which was already a simplification of the vulgate. so it’s like a horrendous game of telephone & all the depth & nuance is lost.

for example, in the post vulgate, arthur sleeps with morgause when he’s young, before he’s married, & she didn’t realize it was him (it was dark?? medieval logic.) point being that the adultery double standard isn’t a factor, she did not mean to cheat on lot, & arthur was single. that’s a narrative hiccup on malory’s part. furthermore the prophecy of a child born on may day come to destroy the kingdom was vague, so arthur’s intention was to round up the children born around that time, & raise them, until they were old enough to distinguish who was who. lot & morgause were sending baby mordred willingly, thinking this was a good opportunity for their son to be tutored in the high king’s household, only for the ship to crash, & for them to believe their son had died as a result of this summons. but he didn’t, & was raised alongside sagramore, eventually coming to court & learning of his real brothers, the other sons of morgause, that way.

i think the original stories & spins malory included were the best of it, especially gareth beaumains & his adventures with the damosel savage. but much of what he adapted he fumbled, all the motifs are forgotten, characters are inconsistent or hold beliefs which aren’t supported by the narrative itself (ie, mark sucks we hate him! what has he done? shhh don’t worry about that just hate him! team tristan!). kind of a mess!

i recommend the vulgate instead. it’s long. but skipping the history of the grail starting from the story of merlin it gives an in depth explanation of everything at play, all the characters rise to power, & their motivations. then the vulgate proper picks up with baby lancelot. norris j. lacy’s translation is a dream to read with really thorough footnotes to explain any references made or translation nuances.

the PDFs can be read here if you’re so inclined.

#arthurian legend #arthurian legends #arthuriana #arthurian mythology #le morte d'arthur #sir thomas malory #ask #liridi

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enchantedbook · 2 years

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La Belle Isolde from Morte D'Arthur by Aubrey Beardsley, 1893

#aubrey beardsley #Le Morte d'Arthur #Illustration #art nouveau #sir thomas malory

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thebeautifulbook · 1 year

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STORIES OF KING ARTHUR’S KNIGHTS Told to the Children by Sir Thomas Malory as retold by Mary MacGregor (London/New York: Dutton, 1905). Illustrated by Katharine Cameron

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#beautiful books #book blog #books books books #book cover #books #illustrated book #vintage books #children’s book #edwardian books #king arthur #knights #sir thomas malory

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mosaicofdreamsanddragons · 1 year

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Confessions of a medievalist: I have never read Mallory’s Morte Darthur cover to cover.

So I now present to you things I didn’t realize about Morte Darthur chapter 1:

Kay was still “nourishing” and was handed off to another woman so his mother could “nourish”baby Arthur. Meaning he was not old enough to get weened. So Kay and Arthur’s age difference is smaller then the three years (as I had always assumed) and probably no more then one.

Sir Ector (Kay’s dad, Arthur’s foster dad) knew the king was giving him this baby and got a lot of rewards for it. Yet when Arthur pulled the sword he was shocked and confesses Arthur’s blood was of a higher status then he’d assumed. This leads me to believe that he thought he was Igraine’s child by her first husband and the king was just getting rid of him like he did with all of Igraine’s daughters (marrying them of and then putting the youngest in a nunnery)

Morgan is sent to a nunnery and then married off. Which seems odd to me. But I guess Uther just didn’t want to raise her until she was ready to be married off.

Oh and Uther goes and gets himself into a war two years after arthur is born. It seems to be implying that’s why he never went to go get him. Which makes sense…but I still don’t like this guy, he killed a woman’s husband to sleep with her, raped her, didn’t tell her the baby was his and left her stressing about it for a good while, sent all her children away. If Merlin’s gonna manipulate him on his deathbed to secure Arthur’s throne I am not gonna shed a tear over it.

It didn’t say Arthur was 15. It’s left quite vague. All we know is he’s older then two. Which, I sure hope so

Kay knows what the sword is the second he sees it. It’s Arthur who doesn’t. Kay immediately goes “oh I guess I’m king now” and goes to tell his dad but is completely willing to explain that Arthur found it and seems not to care that Arthur gets the crown.

Arthur swore as long as he lived he’d never let anyone but Kay be steward. Like that’s an oath he takes. Explains a lot about the Dutch tradition and why he never gets fired.

The aristocracy kept trying to delay his coronation. It’s kinda funny.

#arthurian legend #king arthur #Morte Darthur #sir thomas malory #sir Kay #Kay #Sir Ector #king Uther #king Uther is the worst #morgan le fay #she gets mentioned!#Igraine deserves so much better

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silliestofbilliest · 19 days

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Time for some light bedtime reading 🥰🥰🥰

(I’m bout to pull out either a 38k slow burn or the entirety of Le morte d’Arthur, I’ll figure it out in a sec)

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