Bibliography of King Arthur

• Annales Cambriae, anonymous

• Preiddeu Annwfn attributed to Taliesin
• Pa Gur yv y Porthaur (transl. Who Is the Gatekeeper?), anonymous (a dialogue between Arthur and a gatekeeper, in which he boasts about Cei's battle with the Cath Palug)
• Englynion y Beddau (transl. Stanzas of the Graves), anonymous (Arthur's grave site is a mystery)

• The Legend of St. Goeznovius, anonymous c. 1019 (Saxon resurgence when Arthur is "recalled from the actions of the world" may be a reference to his immortality.;[2] Vortigern mentioned)
• Vita Sancti Cadoc by Lifris of Llancarfan c. 1086 (Arthur wants to ravish Gwladys whom Gundliauc elopes with, but aids them by Kay and Bedivere's counsel. St. Cadoc harbors a killer of Arthur's men and pays cattle as recompense, but they transform into bundles of ferns.[3])

• Trioedd Ynys Prydein (transl. Triads of the Isle of Britain) 11th–14th century. (Twelve triads referring to Arthur.[4] Others mention Mabon and Drystan,[5] etc.)
  • Trioedd y meirch (lit. 'The Triads of the Horses') (mentions the horse names of Cei (Sir Kay), Gwalchmai's horse Ceincaled.[6])
  • Tri Thlws ar Ddeg Ynys Prydain (transl. Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain) 15th–16th centuries[7]
  • Pedwar marchog ar hugain llys (transl. Twenty-Four Knights of Arthur's Court) 15th–16th centuries[7] (mentions the sword Caledfwlch and the spear Rhongomiant[8])

• Culhwch and Olwen, anonymous, c. 1100

• Vita Sancti Carannog c. 1100 (at Arthur's requests, Carantoc tames a dragon. Cato (=Kay) is depicted as feeding it.[9])
• Vita Sancti Euflami c. 1100 (Arthur cannot defeat dragon, but Efflam causes it to plunge from a rock through prayer[10][11])
• Vita Sancti Paternus c. 1120s (mentions Arthur and Caradoc)
• Gesta Regum Anglorum by William of Malmesbury 1125 (Arthur wears image of Mary; Discovery of Gawain's tomb.[12][13])
• Historia Anglorum by Henry of Huntingdon 1129 (mentions Arthur)
• Vita Santi Gildae by Caradoc of Llancarfan c. 1120 – c. 1130 (early version of Malegant-Guenivere abduction narrative.)
• Works of Geoffrey of Monmouth are the main source of information for those writing on the legend.
  • Historia Regum Britanniae c. 1136 – c. 8
  • Vita Merlini c. 1150
• Vera historia de morte Arthuri
• De miraculis sanctae Mariae Laudunensis by Herman of Tournai 1147 (early witness to the legend of Arthur's survival)
• Life of Saint Kentigern by Jocelyn of Furness c. 1185 (contains a version of the legend of Merlin, here called Lailoken[14])
• Vita Sancti Illtud c. 1190s (Illtud came across from Brittany to visit his cousin Arthur's court.[15] King Mark mentioned.)

• Roman de Brut by Wace c. 1155 (an Anglo-Norman verse reworking of Historia Regum Britanniae)
• Tristan by Thomas of Britain c. 1170s
• Tristan by Béroul c. 1170s
• Folie Tristan d'Oxford, c. 1175 – c. 1200
• The Lais of Marie de France c. 1170s
• *Lanval
  • Chevrefoil (an episode of the Tristan and Iseult story)
• The poems of Chrétien de Troyes
  • Erec and Enide c. 1170s
  • Cligés c. 1170s
  • Yvain, the Knight of the Lion c. 1180s
  • Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart c. 1180s
  • Perceval, le Conte du Graal c. 1190
  • Tristan mentioned but non-extant
• The poems of Robert de Boron
  • Joseph d'Arimathie (extant)
  • Merlin (partly extant in 300 lines)
  • Perceval
• The Didot Perceval c. 1190 – c. 1215 (a rendering of a lost poem titled Perceval by Robert de Boron)
• Le Bel Inconnu by Renaut de Beujeu c. 1191 – c. 1213
• Lai du Cor by Robert Biket (Caradoc succeeds in drinking from horn, proves wife's chastity) [16]
• La Mantel Mautaillé (Caradoc's wife passes the chastity test by wearing an ill-fitting mantel)
• La Mule sans frein c. 1200

• Tristan by Eilhart von Oberge c. 1170s
• Lanzelet by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven late 12th century (a rendering of a lost French tale of Lancelot that likely predates Chrétien de Troyes's famous Lancelot or the Knight of the Cart. Ulrich von Zatzikhoven obtained a copy of the original book in 1194 and translated the work from French into German.)
• The poems of Hartmann von Aue
  • Iwein, late 12th century (German adaptation of Chrétien's Yvain, the Knight of the Lion)
  • Erec, late 12th century (expanded reworking of Chrétien's Erec and Enide)

• Roman de Fergus by Guillaume le Clerc 1190s/1200s
• Jaufré c. 1180 – c. 1225 (Occitan verse)
• La Vengeance Raguidel c. 1200 – c. 1225 by Raoul (sometimes identified as Raoul de Houdenc)[17]
• Lancelot-Grail (Vulgate Cycle), anonymous c. 1210s – c. 1230s
  • Estoire del Saint Grail
  • Estoire de Merlin
  • Lancelot propre
  • Queste del Saint Graal
  • Mort Artu
• Perlesvaus, anonymous, c. 1210s
• Prose Tristan by "Luce de Gat" (1230s) and "Helie de Boron" (c. 1240)
• Post-Vulgate Cycle, anonymous begun 1230s, finished 1240s
• Palamedes composed between 1235 and 1240
• L'âtre périlleux, anonymous c. 1250 [18]
• The Marvels of Rigomer, c. 1250
• Roman de Silence by Heldrius de Cornwall c. 1260s
• Roman de Roi Artus aka Compilation by Rusticiano (Rustichello da Pisa); Franco-Italian, c. 1290s – c. 1300
  • Gyron le courtois (published 1501?)
  • Meliadus de Leonnoys (published 1528 by Galliot du Pré, 1532 by Denys Janot)

• Tristan by Gottfried von Strassburg c. 1210s
• Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach c. 1210s
• Wigalois by Wirnt von Grafenberg c. 1210 – c. 1220
• Daniel von Blumenthal by Der Stricker c. 1220
• Diu Crône by Heinrich von dem Türlin
• The poems of Der Pleier
  • Garel von dem blühenden Tal, c. 1230s or c. 1250 – c. 80
  • Tandareis und Flordibel c. 1250 – c. 80
  • Meleranz c. 1250 – c. 80
• Der Mantel, once attributed to Heinrich von dem Türlin (the "ill-fitting mantle" chastity test theme)

• Brother Robert's prose renditions
  • Tristrams saga ok Ísöndar 1226 (Norse reworking Tristan by Thomas of Britain)
  • Ívens saga 1226 (Norse reworking of Chrétien's Yvain, the Knight of the Lion)
  • Erex saga, perhaps originally by Robert (text probably changed in MS. transmission; a Norse reworking of Chrétien's Erec and Enide)
  • Parcevals saga
  • Valvens þáttr
  • Möttuls saga, adaptation of the "ill-fitting mantle" motif
• Strengleikar (translations of lais mostly by Marie de France)
  • "Geitarlauf" (translation of Chevrefoil)
  • "Januals ljóð" (translation of Lanval)

• Brut by Layamon (English reworking of Historia Regum Britanniae)
• Sir Tristrem c. 1300 (English reworking of Tristan by Thomas of Britain)
• Arthour and Merlin c. 1300

• Roman van Walewein by Penninc and Pieter Vostaert
• Roman van Ferguut (translation and reworking of the Roman de Fergus)
• The Lancelot Compilation (an adaptation of the Lancelot-Grail and other romances, 10 in all:[19])
  • Lanceloet
  • Perchevael
  • Moriaen (Morien)
  • Queeste vanden Grale
  • Wrake van Ragisel (adaptation of Vengeance Raguidel)
  • Ridder metter mouwen ("The Knight with the Sleeve" )
  • Walewein ende Keye
  • Lanceloet en het hert met de witte voet ("Lancelot and the Stag with the White Foot")
  • Torec by Jacob van Maerlant
  • Arturs doet

• Melech Artus (transl. King 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 ("the book of making leap years"). Anonymous author.[20]

• Brut y Brenhinedd (Welsh chronicle adaptation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae)
• The Dream of Rhonabwy, anonymous
• The Black Book of Carmarthen, anonymous (mentions Arthur)

• Alliterative Morte Arthure, anonymous
• Stanzaic Morte Arthur, anonymous
• The Avowyng of Arthur
• The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle, anonymous
• The Awntyrs off Arthure, anonymous
• Sir Cleges (not closely related to Chrestien's Cliges; set in Uther Pendragon's court)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by The Pearl Poet
• Sir Launfal by Thomas Chestre (a remaking of the lai of Lanval)
• Sir Libeaus Desconus
• Yvain and Gawain
• Sir Perceval of Galles
• Lancelot of the Laik

(All dates for the Welsh compositions are controversial)

• Mabinogion, anonymous
• Culhwch and Olwen (recorded)
• The Welsh Romances
  • Owain, or the Lady of the Fountain
  • Geraint and Enid
  • Peredur, son of Efrawg

• Tavola Rottonda, anonymous

• Perceforest, anonymous

• La Faula by Guillem de Torroella[21]

• O Presbus Ippotes (Ὁ Πρέσβυς Ἱππότης, transl. The Old Knight; a Greek reworking of part of Rustichello da Pisa's Compilations)

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

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

• Skikkjurímur, (a rendition of the "ill-fitting mantle" story)

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

• Arthur of Little Britain[22]
• The Greene Knight c. 1500
• The Boy and the Mantle (ballad in the Percy Folio, chastity test story of the "ill-fitting mantle" and the horn)
• 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

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

• Povest' o Tryshchane 1560s

• Viduvilt (Yiddish reworking of Wigalois)

• Works of Richard Johnson
  • Tom a Lincoln (1607)
  • The History of Tom Thumbe, the Little, for his small stature surnamed, King Arthurs Dwarfe (1621)
• The Birth of Merlin, or, The Childe Hath Found His Father by William Rowley (?1620; first published 1662)
• Works of Richard Blackmore
  • Prince Arthur: An Heroick Poem in Ten Books (1695)
  • King Arthur: An Heroick Poem in Twelve Books (1697)

• Howard Pyle - In a four volume set including:
  • "The Story of King Arthur and His Knights" (1903)
  • "The Story of the Champions of the Round Table" (1905)
  • "The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions" (1907)
  • "The Story of the Grail and the Passing of King Arthur" (1910)
• Kairo-kō (1905) by Natsume Sōseki
• The Life of Sir Aglovale de Galis (1905) by Clemence Housman[23]
• War in Heaven (1930) by Charles W. S. Williams, a "modern-day" (20th century) quest for the Holy Grail
• The Little Wench (1935) by Philip Lindsay
• Merlin's Godson by H. Warner Munn
  • King of the World's Edge (1936)
  • The Ship from Atlantis (1967)
  • Merlin's Ring (1974)
• Taliessin through Logres (1938) and The Region of the Summer Stars (1944) by Charles W. S. Williams (poem cycles)
• The Once and Future King by T. H. White including
  • The Sword in the Stone (1938)
  • The Queen of Air and Darkness (or The Witch in the Wood) (1939)
  • The Ill-Made Knight (1940)
  • The Candle in the Wind (1958)
  • The Book of Merlyn (1958)
• That Hideous Strength (1945) by C. S. Lewis
• Porius (A Romance of the Dark Ages) (1951) by John Cowper Powys
• King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (1953) by Roger Lancelyn Green
• The Great Captains (1956) by Henry Treece
• Rosemary Sutcliff's Arthurian novels:
  • The Lantern Bearers (1959)
  • Sword at Sunset (1963)
  • Tristan and Iseult (1971)
  • The Shining Company (1990), a retelling of the Y Gododdin, which contains the earliest mention of Arthur's name
  • The Arthurian Trilogy (1979–1981), re-issued in an omnibus edition in 2007 as The King Arthur Trilogy:
    • The Light Beyond the Forest (1979)
    • The Sword and the Circle (1981)
    • The Road to Camlann (1981)
• A Trace of Memory (1963) by Keith Laumer
• The Merlin series by Mary Stewart
  • The Crystal Cave (1970)
  • The Hollow Hills (1973)
  • The Last Enchantment (1979)
  • The Wicked Day (1983)
  • The Prince and the Pilgrim (1995)
• The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1975) by John Steinbeck
• The Mabinogion Tetralogy (1974) by Evangeline Walton.
• Arthur Rex: A Legendary Novel by Thomas Berger (1978)
• The Three Damosels (1978) and The Enchantresses (1998) by Vera Chapman (the latter with Mike Ashley)
• The Old French Tristan Poems (1980) by David J. Shirt
• The Mists of Avalon (1983) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• L'Enchanteur (1984) by René Barjavel
• The White Raven (1988) by Diana L. Paxson (Tristan and Isseult)
• The Pendragon Cycle by Stephen Lawhead
  • Taliesin (1987)
  • Merlin (1988)
  • Arthur (1989)
  • Pendragon (1994)
  • Grail (1997)
  • Avalon (1999)
• The Guinevere trilogy by Persia Woolley
  • Child of the Northern Spring (1987)
  • Queen of the Summer Stars (1991)
  • Guinevere: The Legend in Autumn (1993)
• Knight Life (1987), One Knight Only (2004) and Fall of Knight (2007) by Peter David
• The Road to Avalon (1988) by Joan Wolf
• The King (1990) by Donald Barthelme
• The Arthor series by A. A. Attanasio
  • The Dragon and the Unicorn (1994)
  • The Eagle and the Sword (1997)
  • The Wolf and the Crown (1998)
  • The Serpent and the Grail (1999)
• The Child Queen (1994), The High Queen (1995), (collected in Queen of Camelot (2002)), Prince of Dreams (2004), and Grail Prince (2003) by Nancy McKenzie
• I Am Mordred (1998) by Nancy Springer
• Hallowed Isle by Diana L. Paxson: The Book of the Sword (1999), The Book of the Spear (1999), The Book of the Cauldron (1999), The Book of the Stone (2000).
• The Guenevere novels by Rosalind Miles
  • Guenevere, Queen of the Summer Country (1999)
  • The Knight of the Sacred Lake (2000)
  • Child of the Holy Grail (2000)
• 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 (1988)
• Stones of Power by David Gemmell
  • Ghost King (1988)
  • Last Sword of Power (1988)
• Anonymous
  • King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (Illustrated Junior Library, Deluxe edition, September 1, 1950)
• To the Chapel Perilous Naomi Mitchison (1955)
• Artorius by John Heath-Stubbs
• Quirinius, Britannia's Last Roman by Erik Hildinger (2021)
• Our Man in Camelot by Anthony Price (1975) (The sixth book in the Dr. David Audley series uses the Arthur myth as a MacGuffin in a modern spy thriller.)
• By Parke Godwin
  • Firelord (1980)
  • Beloved Exile (1984)
  • The Last Rainbow (1985)
• The Pendragon's Banner Trilogy by Helen Hollick (re-published UK 2007 & USA 2009)
  • Book One: The Kingmaking (1994)
  • Book Two: Pendragon's Banner (1995)
  • Book Three: Shadow of the King (1997)
• The Tales of Arthur, books of The Keltiad, by Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
  • The Hawk's Grey Feather (1991)
  • The Oak Above the Kings (1994)
  • The Hedge of Mist (1996)
• A Dream of Eagles (Camulod Chronicles) by Jack Whyte
  • The Sky Stone (1992)
  • The Singing Sword (1993)
  • The Eagles' Brood (1994)
  • The Saxon Shore (1998)
  • The Sorcerer Part 1: The Fort at River's Bend (1997)
  • The Sorcerer Part 2: The Sorcerer: Metamorphosis (1999)
  • Uther (2001)
  • Clothar the Frank (titled The Lance Thrower outside of Canada) (2004)
  • The Eagle (2006)
• The Lost Years of Merlin Epic, by T.A. Barron
  • The Lost Years of Merlin (1996)
  • The Seven Songs of Merlin (1997)
  • The Fires of Merlin (1998)
  • The Mirror of Merlin (1999)
  • The Wings of Merlin (2000)
• Albion, a trilogy of historical novels by British author Patrick McCormack (1997, 2000, 2007)
• 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 (1975) by Andre Norton
• The Return of Merlin (1995) by Deepak Chopra
• Guinevere series (1996), by Sharan Newman.
• Black Horses for the King (1996) 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 (1980–82)
  • Hawk of May
  • Kingdom of Summer
  • In Winter's Shadow
• The Little Wench by Philip Lindsay
• Merlin (1978) by Robert Nye
• A Lady of King Arthur's Court (1907) by Sara Hawks Sterling

• Ymadawiad Arthur (1902) by Thomas Gwynn Jones