List of Arthurian literature


This is a bibliography of works about King Arthur, his family, friends or enemies. This bibliography includes works that are notable or are by notable authors.

6th century

  • De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae by Gildas

    9th century

  • Historia Brittonum attributed to Nennius

    10th century

Latin

  • Annales Cambriae, anonymous

    Welsh

  • Preiddeu Annwfn attributed to Taliesin
  • Pa Gur yv y Porthaur, anonymous
  • Englynion y Beddau, anonymous

    11th century

Latin

  • The Legend of St. Goeznovius, anonymous
  • Vita Sancti Cadoc by Lifris of Llancarfan

    Welsh

  • Trioedd Ynys Prydein 11th–14th century.
  • * Trioedd y meirch
  • * Tri Thlws ar Ddeg Ynys Prydain 15th–16th centuries
  • * Pedwar marchog ar hugain llys 15th–16th centuries

    12th century

Welsh

French, Anglo-Norman or Provençal

  • Roman de Fergus by Guillaume le Clerc 1190s/1200s
  • Jaufré
  • La Vengeance Raguidel by Raoul
  • Lancelot-Grail, anonymous
  • * Estoire del Saint Grail
  • * Estoire de Merlin
  • * Lancelot propre
  • * Queste del Saint Graal
  • * Mort Artu
  • Perlesvaus, anonymous,
  • Prose Tristan by "Luce de Gat" and "Helie de Boron"
  • Post-Vulgate Cycle, anonymous begun 1230s, finished 1240s
  • Palamedes composed between 1235 and 1240
  • L'âtre périlleux, anonymous
  • ,
  • Roman de Silence by Heldrius de Cornwall
  • Roman de Roi Artus aka Compilation by Rusticiano ; Franco-Italian,
  • * Gyron le courtois
  • * ''Meliadus de Leonnoys''

    German

  • Tristan by Gottfried von Strassburg
  • Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach
  • Wigalois by Wirnt von Grafenberg
  • Daniel von Blumenthal by Der Stricker
  • Diu Crône by Heinrich von dem Türlin
  • The poems of Der Pleier
  • * Garel von dem blühenden Tal, or
  • * Tandareis und Flordibel
  • * Meleranz
  • Der Mantel, once attributed to Heinrich von dem Türlin

    Norse

  • Brother Robert's prose renditions
  • * Tristrams saga ok Ísöndar 1226
  • * Ívens saga 1226
  • * Erex saga, perhaps originally by Robert
  • * Parcevals saga
  • * Valvens þáttr
  • * Möttuls saga, adaptation of the "ill-fitting mantle" motif
  • Strengleikar
  • * "Geitarlauf"
  • * "Januals ljóð"

    English

  • Brut by Layamon
  • Sir Tristrem
  • ''Arthour and Merlin''

    Dutch

  • ' by Penninc and Pieter Vostaert
  • Roman van Ferguut
  • The Lancelot Compilation
  • * Lanceloet
  • * Perchevael
  • * Moriaen
  • * '
  • * Wrake van Ragisel
  • * Ridder metter mouwen
  • * Walewein ende Keye
  • * Lanceloet en het hert met de witte voet
  • * Torec by Jacob van Maerlant
  • * ''Arturs doet''

    Hebrew

  • Melech Artus, a 1279 Hebrew translation, and the first in that language, which was published in Italy. Contains several short parts of the Vulgate Cycle: the Pendragon's seduction of Igraine and Arthur's death. Total of 5 pages, at the end of a larger codex on calendar astronomy titled Sefer ha-I'bbur. Anonymous author.

    Welsh

  • Brut y Brenhinedd
  • The Dream of Rhonabwy, anonymous
  • The Black Book of Carmarthen, anonymous

    14th century

English

English

  • Arthur
  • Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
  • Prose Merlin
  • "King Arthur and King Cornwall"
  • ''Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle''

    Italian

  • Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo
  • La Tavola Ritonda, anonymous

    Icelandic

  • Skikkjurímur,

    Breton

  • An Dialog etre Arzur Roe d'an Bretounet ha Guynglaff, anonymous

    16th century

English

  • Arthur of Little Britain
  • The Greene Knight
  • The Boy and the Mantle
  • The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain 1508
  • The Jeaste of Sir Gawain
  • The Misfortunes of Arthur by Thomas Hughes, 1587
  • The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, 1590

    Welsh

  • Tristan Romance, preserved in fragmentary form in several MSS.

    Byelo-Russian

  • 1560s

    Yiddish

  • ''Viduvilt''

    17th century

English

Bulfinch, Thomas
Age of Chivalry; or, Legends of King Arthur
Boston: J.E. Tilton and Company, 1872.

20th century

English

  • Howard Pyle - In a four volume set including:
  • * "The Story of King Arthur and His Knights"
  • * "The Story of the Champions of the Round Table"
  • * "The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions"
  • * "The Story of the Grail and the Passing of King Arthur"
  • The Life of Sir Aglovale de Galis by Clemence Housman
  • War in Heaven by Charles W. S. Williams, a "modern-day" quest for the Holy Grail
  • The Little Wench by Philip Lindsay
  • Merlin's Godson by H. Warner Munn
  • * King of the World's Edge
  • * The Ship from Atlantis
  • * Merlin's Ring
  • Taliessin through Logres and The Region of the Summer Stars by Charles W. S. Williams
  • The Once and Future King by T. H. White including
  • * The Sword in the Stone
  • * The Queen of Air and Darkness
  • * The Ill-Made Knight
  • * The Candle in the Wind
  • * The Book of Merlyn
  • That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis
  • Porius by John Cowper Powys
  • King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green
  • The Great Captains by Henry Treece
  • Rosemary Sutcliff's Arthurian novels:
  • * The Lantern Bearers
  • * Sword at Sunset
  • * Tristan and Iseult
  • * The Shining Company, a retelling of Y Gododdin, which contains the earliest mention of Arthur's name
  • * The Arthurian Trilogy, re-issued in an omnibus edition in 2007 as The King Arthur Trilogy:
  • ** The Light Beyond the Forest
  • ** The Sword and the Circle
  • ** The Road to Camlann
  • A Trace of Memory by Keith Laumer
  • The Merlin series by Mary Stewart
  • * The Crystal Cave
  • * The Hollow Hills
  • * The Last Enchantment
  • * The Wicked Day
  • * The Prince and the Pilgrim
  • The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck
  • The Mabinogion Tetralogy by Evangeline Walton.
  • Arthur Rex: A Legendary Novel by Thomas Berger
  • The Three Damosels and The Enchantresses by Vera Chapman
  • The Old French Tristan Poems by David J. Shirt
  • The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • The White Raven by Diana L. Paxson
  • The Road to Avalon by Joan Wolf
  • The Pendragon Cycle by Stephen Lawhead
  • * Taliesin
  • * Merlin
  • * Arthur
  • * Pendragon
  • * Grail
  • * Avalon
  • The Guinevere trilogy by Persia Woolley
  • * Child of the Northern Spring
  • * Queen of the Summer Stars
  • * Guinevere: The Legend in Autumn
  • Knight Life, One Knight Only and Fall of Knight by Peter David
  • The Road to Avalon by Joan Wolf
  • The King by Donald Barthelme
  • The Arthor series by A. A. Attanasio
  • *The Dragon and the Unicorn
  • *The Eagle and the Sword
  • *The Wolf and the Crown
  • *The Serpent and the Grail
  • The Child Queen, The High Queen,, Prince of Dreams, and Grail Prince by Nancy McKenzie
  • I Am Mordred by Nancy Springer
  • Hallowed Isle by Diana L. Paxson: The Book of the Sword, The Book of the Spear, The Book of the Cauldron, The Book of the Stone.
  • The Guenevere novels by Rosalind Miles
  • * Guenevere, Queen of the Summer Country
  • * The Knight of the Sacred Lake
  • * Child of the Holy Grail
  • The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell
  • * The Winter King
  • * Enemy of God
  • * Excalibur
  • By Jane Yolen:
  • * Sword of the Rightful King
  • * The Young Merlin Trilogy
  • By Gerald Morris:
  • * The Squire's Tale
  • * The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady
  • * The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf
  • * Parsifal's Page
  • * The Ballad of Sir Dinadan
  • * The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung-Cart Knight
  • * The Lioness and her Knight
  • * The Quest of the Fair Unknown
  • * Squire's Quest
  • * The Legend of the King
  • * The Adventures of Sir Givret the Short
  • * The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great
  • By Molly Cochran and Warren Murphy
  • * The Forever King
  • * The Broken Sword
  • * The Third Magic
  • The Coming of the King: The First Book of Merlin by Nikolai Tolstoy
  • Stones of Power by David Gemmell
  • * Ghost King
  • * Last Sword of Power
  • Anonymous
  • * King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
  • To the Chapel Perilous Naomi Mitchison
  • Artorius by John Heath-Stubbs
  • Quirinius, Britannia's Last Roman by Erik Hildinger
  • Our Man in Camelot by Anthony Price
  • By Parke Godwin
  • *Firelord
  • *Beloved Exile
  • *The Last Rainbow
  • The Pendragon's Banner Trilogy by Helen Hollick
  • *Book One: The Kingmaking
  • *Book Two: Pendragon's Banner
  • *Book Three: Shadow of the King
  • The Tales of Arthur, books of The Keltiad, by Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
  • * The Hawk's Grey Feather
  • * The Oak Above the Kings
  • * The Hedge of Mist
  • A Dream of Eagles by Jack Whyte
  • *The Sky Stone
  • *The Singing Sword
  • *The Eagles' Brood
  • *The Saxon Shore
  • *The Sorcerer Part 1: The Fort at River's Bend
  • *The Sorcerer Part 2: The Sorcerer: Metamorphosis
  • * Uther
  • * Clothar the Frank
  • * The Eagle
  • The Lost Years of Merlin Epic, by T.A. Barron
  • *The Lost Years of Merlin
  • *The Seven Songs of Merlin
  • *The Fires of Merlin
  • *The Mirror of Merlin
  • *The Wings of Merlin
  • Albion, a trilogy of historical novels by British author Patrick McCormack
  • The King Awakes and The Empty Throne by Janice Elliott, set in a Medieval-style society several generations after a nuclear war. Both novels deal with the return of King Arthur and his friendship with a youth from the post-holocaust world
  • Merlin's Bones by Fred Saberhagen
  • The Idylls of the Queen by Phyllis Ann Karr
  • Eagle in the Snow by Wallace Breem; the coming of Arthur is foreseen by the chief of Segontium in the last page of the book
  • The Winter Prince by Elizabeth Wein
  • The Dragon Lord by David Drake
  • Merlin's Mirror by Andre Norton
  • The Return of Merlin by Deepak Chopra
  • Guinevere series, by Sharan Newman.
  • Black Horses for the King by Anne McCaffrey.
  • Camelot 3000, a comic book series that reincarnates Arthur and his knights in the far future
  • The Dark Is Rising, a series written for older children and young adults, by Susan Cooper
  • The Fionavar Tapestry, a fantasy trilogy by Canadian author Guy Gavriel Kay
  • The Merlin Mystery, A puzzlehunt book which focused heavily on Merlin and Nimue having a love after Arthur has been entombed; it offered a cash prize as well as a gold, silver, bronze and crystal wand. However, the puzzle went unsolved and the prize unclaimed.
  • The Down the Long Wind series by Gillian Bradshaw
  • * Hawk of May
  • * Kingdom of Summer
  • * In Winter's Shadow
  • The Little Wench by Philip Lindsay
  • Merlin by Robert Nye
  • A Lady of King Arthur's Court by Sara Hawks Sterling
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail by Monty Python