Continental, English, and Other Texts
French Arthurian/"Celtic" Texts
FRENCH | ENGLISH | |
Anonymous | ||
Perlesvaus/Le Haut Livre du Graal (1190-1210) | Perlesvaus/The High History of the Holy Grail | |
Tyolet (1200) | The Lai of Tyolet | |
Meliot (1200) | The Lai of Meliot | |
Le Chevalier à l'Épée (1210) | The Knight of the Sword | |
Folie Tristan (Berne) (1200-1300) | The Madness of Tristan | |
Folie Tristan (Oxford) (1200-1300) | The Madness of Tristan | |
Les Enfances Gauvain (1200-1300) | The Birth of Gawain | |
Roman de Yder (1210) | The Story of Yder | |
Durmart le Gallois (1220) | Durmart of Wales | |
Vulgate Cycle: Queste del Saint Greal (1220) | The Quest for the Grail | |
Meriadeuc: Le Chevalier aux Deux Épées (1225) | The Knight of the Two Swords | |
Gliglois (1225) | ||
Jaufré (1225) | ||
Prose Tristan, aka "Le Roman de Tristan de Léonis" (1225-35) | ||
Roman du Graal "Pseudo-Boron" (1230-40) | ||
Livre D'Artus (1230-40) | The Life of Arthur | |
Sone de Nansai (1250-75) | The Dream of Nansai (1250+) | |
Hunbaut (1250-75) | ||
Floriant et Florete (1250-75) | ||
Claris et Laris (1268) | ||
Les Merveilles de Rigomer (1260) | ||
Le Chevalier du Papegau (1300) | The Knight of the Parrot | |
Geffroi Gaimar (ca. 1150) | ||
Estoire des Angles | History of the English | |
Robert Biketâs (1150-75) | ||
Lai du Cor | Lay of the Horn | |
Robert Wace (1155) | ||
Roman de Brut | Brut | |
Roman de Rou | Romance of the Kings | |
Marie de France (1160) | ||
Ysopets | Fables | |
L'Espurgatoire Seint Patriz | St Patrick's Purgatory | |
Lais (In French): | Lays (In English): | |
Lai de Guigemar | Guigemar | |
Lai d'Equitan | Equitan | |
Le Fresne | The Ash Tree | |
Lai de Bisclavret | The Werewolf | |
Lai de Lanval | Lanval | |
Les Deux Amanz | The Two Lovers | |
Lai d'Yonec | Yonec | |
Lai du Laüstic | The Nightingale | |
Milun | Milun | |
Chaitivel | The Four Sorrows | |
Chevrefoil | The Honeysuckle | |
Eliduc | Eliduc | |
Thomas of Ercledoun (1170) | ||
Tristain at Iseult | Tristan and Iseult | |
Chretien de Troyes (1165-1191) | ||
Cligès | Cliges | |
Érec et Énide | Erec and Enide | |
Lancelot ou le Chevalier à la charrette | Lancelot, or, the Knight of the Cart | |
Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion | Yvain, or, the Knight With the Lion | |
Perceval ou le Conte du Graal | Perceval, or, the Story of the Grail | |
Perceval Continuations (not by Chretien) | ||
Elucidation | The Elucidation: prologue | |
Bliocadran | Bliocadran: prologue | |
Sir Gawain and the Lady of Lys: from the Perceval Continuation One | ||
Sir Gawain at the Grail Castle: also from the Perceval Continuation One. | ||
Renart/Renaud de Beaujeu (1185-90) | ||
Le Bel Inconnu aka "Guinglain" | ||
Béroul (1191) | ||
Tristan et Iseult | Tristan and Iseult | |
Robert de Boron: Le Roman du Graal, translated by Dell Skeels (1202) | ||
Li Romanz de l'estoire dou Graal: Joseph de Arimathe | Joseph of Arimathea | |
Merlin | Merlin | |
Perceval | Perceval | |
Mort Artu | The Death of Arthur | |
Heldris de Cornualle (1200-1300) | ||
Le roman de Silence | ||
Raoul (1210-20) | ||
La Vengeance Raguidel | ||
Paiende Maisières (1210-30) | ||
La Mule sans Frein | ||
Raoul de Houdenc (1225) | ||
Meraugis de Portlesguez | ||
Guillaume le Clerc (1225) | ||
Fergus | Fergus | |
Jean Froissart (1388) | ||
Meliador | Meliador |
Germanic Arthurian Texts
German | English | |
Anonymous | ||
Tristan als Monch (1200-1300) | Tristan as a Monk | |
Wigamur (1250) | Wigamur | |
Eilhart von Oberge (1170) | ||
Tristan | Tristan | |
Heinrich von Veldeke (1175-86) | ||
Eneit | Erec and Enide | |
Hartmann von Aue (1190-2) | ||
Erec | Erec | |
Iwein | Iwein | |
Wirnt von Gravenberg (1204) | ||
Wigalois | Wigalois | |
Ulrich von Zatzikhoven (1200) | ||
Lanzelet | Lanzelet | |
Ulrich von Turheim | ||
Tristan | Tristan | |
Wolfram von Eschenbach (1204-12) | ||
Titurel | Titurel | |
Parzival | Parzival | |
Gottfried von Strassburg (1210) | ||
Tristan | Tristan | |
Heinrich von dem Türlin (1220) | ||
Diu Krône | The Crown (excerpt) | |
Claus Wisse and Philipp Colin (1331-6) | ||
Parzifal | Commentary on Wofram's Parzival | |
NORSE | ENGLISH | |
Anonymous | ||
Januals liódh (1200-1300) | ||
Geitarlauf (1200-1300) | ||
Breta sogur (1220) | The History of Britain (Geoffrey's HRB) | |
Erex saga (1230-40) | The Saga of Erec | |
Ivens saga Artuskappa (1230-40) | The Saga of Ywein, nephew of Arthur | |
Möttuls saga (1230-40) | The Saga of the Mantel | |
Parcevals saga (1250) | The Saga of Perceval | |
Valvers þáttr (1250) | The Tale of Gawain (?) | |
Herra Ivan (1300) | ||
Skikkju rímur (1400-1500) | ||
Gunnlaug Leifsson (1200-1218) | ||
Merlínusspá | The Prophecy of Merlin | |
Brother Robert (1226) | ||
Tristams saga | ||
DUTCH | ENGLISH | |
Anonymous | ||
Ferguut (1250-1300) | ||
De Ridder metter Mouwen (1300) | ||
Lancelot cycle (1300) | ||
De Wrake van Ragiesel (1300) | ||
Moriæn | Sir Morien (1340) | |
>Pennic; Pieter Vostaert (1250) | ||
Walewein | Gawain | |
Lodewijk van Velthelm (1250) | ||
Perchevael | Perceval | |
Livre d'Artus | ||
Jacob van Maerlant (1261) | ||
Historie van den Grale | The History of the Grail | |
Merlijns Boeck | The Book of Merlin (Merlin's Prophecies) |
English Arthurian Texts
Laȝamon (ca. 1190-1200?)
Arthurian portions of The Brut (translated)
Brut (Cotton Caligula version) (untranslated)
Brut (MS Cotton Otho version) (untranslated)
Geoffrey Chaucer (1392-4)
The Wife of Bath's Tale
Thomas Chestre (1320-40)
Sir Launfal
Libeaus Desconus
Thomas Hughes (fl. 1587)
The Misfortunes of Arthur
Thomas Malory (1470)
Le Morte d'Arthur
Anonymous Ballads from the Camelot Project Website
The Alliterative Morte Arthure (1360)
The Avowyng of Arthur (1425)
The Awntyrs off Arthur (1375-1400)
The Carle of Carlisle
The Greene Knight (1500)
The History of That Holy Disciple Joseph of Arimathea
The Jeaste of Sir Gawain (1450)
King Arthur and King Cornwall (1500-20)
The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain (1482-1500)
Lancelot of the Laik (1482-1500)
The Marriage of Sir Gawain (1450)
Prose Merlin (1450)
Sir Cleges
Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle (1400)
Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight (1390)
Sir Libeaus Desconus
Sir Percyvelle of Galles (1320-40)
Sir Tristrem (1300)
The Six Ballads of King Arthur
Stanzaic Morte Arthur (1400)
Tom Thumbe, His Life and Death (1630)
The Turke and Sir Gawain (1500)
The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle (1450)
Ywain and Gawain (1350)
Other Ballads
Arthour and Merlin (1250-75)
The Boy and the Mantle (1500-1600)
The History of the Holy Grail (1450)
Joseph of Arimathie: Otherwise Called The Romance of the Seint Graal, Or Holy Grail (1350)
Kempy Kay
Kemp Owyne
Childe Rowland (Jamieson version)
Arthurian Fairy Tales
Jack the Giant-Killer
The History of Tom Thumb
Childe Rowland (Jacobs version)
The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh (a variation on "Kemp Owyne")
Irish Arthurian Texts
IRISH | ENGLISH |
Eachtra an Mhadra Mhaoil | The Story of the Crop-Eared Dog |
Eachtra Mhacaoimh-an-Iolair | The Story of Eagle-Boy |
Eachtra Cloinne Rígh na h-Ioruaidhe | Adventures of the Children of the King of Norway |
Lorgaireacht an tSoidhigh Naomhtha | the Quest of the Holy Grail |
Eachtra Mhelóra agus Orlando | The story of Melóra and Orlando |
Céilidhe Iosgaide Léithe | The Visit of Grey-Thigh |