Arthur, High King of Britain

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Academia up in arms over King Arthur's Glasgow roots". www.thenational.scot. 6 March 2015 . Retrieved 30 December 2015.

In this book I loved Lancelot… yeah I know he wasn’t the best and he did bad things in the book, but still I loved how his story was beautiful but still had a dark side, I really loved how we felt that he was a human, he did good things but also did bad choices just like us humans. And that’s why Lancelot is my favourite character. Bruce, Christopher W. (1999). The Arthurian Name Dictionary. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0815328656 . Retrieved 26 February 2014. It certainly however didn’t add anything new to the story, and despite being great for children, I thought the narrative was somewhat flat throughout the book in places and I was disappointed with Guinevere, instead much preferring the mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley which looks at the myths through the eyes of the female characters (which is essential reading). Kibler, William; Carroll, Carleton W., eds. (1991), Chrétien de Troyes: Arthurian Romances, London: Penguin, ISBN 978-0-14-044521-3 . The familiar literary persona of Arthur began with Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudo-historical Historia Regum Britanniae ( History of the Kings of Britain), written in the 1130s. The textual sources for Arthur are usually divided into those written before Geoffrey's Historia (known as pre-Galfridian texts, from the Latin form of Geoffrey, Galfridus) and those written afterwards, which could not avoid his influence (Galfridian, or post-Galfridian, texts).

For a discussion of the tale, see Bromwich & Evans 1992; see also Padel 1994, pp.2–4; Roberts 1991a; and Green 2007b, pp.67–72 and chapter three. Malone, Kemp (May 1925), "Artorius", Modern Philology, 22 (4): 367–374, doi: 10.1086/387553, JSTOR 433555, S2CID 224832996 . ( JSTOR subscription required.) David, Brian, Review of Nicholas J. Higham, King Arthur: The Making of the Legend in Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 50:221-222 (2019) doi: 10.1353/cjm.2019.0021 ProjectMUSE 734087 Bourgès, André-Yves, "Guillaume le Breton et l'hagiographie bretonne aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles", in: Annales de Bretagne et des pays de l'Ouest, 1995, 102–1, pp. 35–45.; See Ashe 1985 for an attempt to use this vita as a historical source. Rosenberg, John D. (1973), The Fall of Camelot: A Study of Tennyson's 'Idylls of the King' , Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-29175-1 .

Green, Thomas (October 2012). "John Dee, King Arthur, and the Conquest of the Arctic". The Heroic Age (15). . As King Arthur stories go, this was probably the worst I've ever read. The narrative framing was super weird- because we're hearing the story from Arthur, who's recounting the events thousands of years later to a kid in a cave, it's like we're held at arm's length from the events and can't feel as though we're really there. I was more invested in the Kid's story at the very beginning than in anything that came out of Arthur's mouth. Padel, O. J. (Fall 1995), "Recent Work on the Origins of the Arthurian Legend: A Comment", Arthuriana, 5 (3): 103–14, doi: 10.1353/art.1995.0040, S2CID 32369325 .Breeze, Andrew (September 2015). "The Historical Arthur and Sixth-Century Scotland". Northern History. LII (2): 158–181. doi: 10.1179/0078172x15z.00000000085. S2CID 161217897. Wright, Neil, ed. (1985), The Historia Regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth, 1: Bern, Burgerbibliothek, MS. 568, Cambridge: Brewer, ISBN 978-0-85991-211-2 . An enchanting take on the legend of King Arthur from Britain’s best-loved children’s author, Michael Morpurgo.

Littleton, C. Scott; Malcor, Linda A. (1994), From Scythia to Camelot: A Radical Reassessment of the Legends of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table and the Holy Grail, New York: Garland, ISBN 978-0-8153-1496-7 . I did enjoy it, but it was far from the author’s best book and also far from the best Arthur legends book I have read. Blaess, Madeleine (1956). "Arthur's Sisters". Bulletin Bibliographique de la Société Internationale Arthurienne. 8: 69–77. The other text that seems to support the case for Arthur's historical existence is the 10th-century Annales Cambriae, which also link Arthur with the Battle of Badon. The Annales date this battle to 516–518, and also mention the Battle of Camlann, in which Arthur and Medraut (Mordred) were both killed, dated to 537–539. These details have often been used to bolster confidence in the Historia 's account and to confirm that Arthur really did fight at Badon.Wasyliw, Patricia Healy (2008). Martyrdom, Murder, and Magic: Child Saints and Their Cults in Medieval Europe. Peter Lang. ISBN 9780820427645. Myres, J. N. L. (1986), The English Settlements, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-282235-2 . C. A. Coates, John Cowper Powys in Search of a Landscape. Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1982, p. 139. Simpson, Roger (1990), Camelot Regained: The Arthurian Revival and Tennyson, 1800–1849, Cambridge: Brewer, ISBN 978-0-85991-300-3 .