Bibliography of King Arthur

6th century

• De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae by Gildas, mentions the Battle of Mons Badonicus, but famously neglects to mention Arthur

  9th century

• Historia Britonum attributed to Nennius

  10th century

Latin

• Annales Cambriae, Anonymous

  Welsh

• Preiddeu Annwfn attributed to Taliesin
• "Pa Gur yv y Porthaur" or "Who is the gatekeeper?" 10th century.
• Englynion y Beddau or Stanzas of the graves 9th or 10th century.

  11th century

Latin

• The Legend of St. Goeznovius c. 1019
• Vita Sancti Cadoc by Lifris of Llancarfan c. 1086

Welsh

• Trioedd Ynys Prydein 11th–14th century. and Drystan
• * Trioedd y meirch
• * Tri Thlws ar Ddeg Ynys Prydain 15th-16th century
• * Pedwar marchog ar hugain llys 15th-16th century Mentions the sword Caledfwlch and the spear Rhongomiant

  12th century

Welsh

• Culhwch and Olwen, Anonymous, c. 1100

  Latin

• Vita Sancti Carannog c. 1100
• Vita Sancti Euflami c. 1100
• Vita Sancti Paternus c. 1120s
• Gesta Regum Anglorum by William of Malmesbury 1125
• Historia Anglorum by Henry of Huntingdon 1129
• Vita Santi Gildae by Caradoc of Llancarfan c. 1120-1130
• Works of Geoffrey of Monmouth
• *Historia Regum Britanniae c. 1136-8
• *Vita Merlini c. 1140
• Life of Saint Kentigern by Jocelyn of Furness c. 1185
• Vita Sancti Illtud c. 1190s

  French and Anglo-Norman

• Roman de Brut by Wace c. 1155
• Tristan by Thomas of Britain c. 1170s
• Tristan by Béroul c. 1170s
• Folie Tristan d'Oxford, c. 1175–1200
• The Lais of Marie de France c. 1170s
• *Lanval
• * Chevrefoil c. 1170s
• 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
• * Merlin
• * Perceval
• Lai du Cor by Robert Biket.
• La Mantel Mautaillé.
• La Mule sans frein c. 1200

  German

• Tristan by Eilhart von Oberge c. 1170s
• Lanzelet by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven late 12th century
• The poems of Hartmann von Aue
• *Iwein, late 12th century
• *Erec, late 12th century

  13th century

French, Anglo-Norman or Provençal

• Roman de Fergus by Guillaume le Clerc 1190s/1200s
• Jaufré c. 1180 or 1225
• La Vengeance Raguidel c. 1200-1225 by Raoul
• Lancelot-Grail, Anonymous c. 1210s-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" and "Helie de Boron"
• Roman de Silence by Heldrius de Cornwall c. 1260s
• Post-Vulgate Cycle, Anonymous
• L'âtre périlleux, Anonymous
• Roman de Roi Artus aka Compilation by Rusticiano ; Franco-Italian, c. 1290s -1300
• * Gyron le courtois
• * Meliadus de Leonnoys

  German

• Tristan by Gottfried von Strassburg c. 1210s
• Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach c. 1210s
• Daniel von Blumenthal by Der Stricker c. 1220
• Diu Crône Heinrich von dem Türlin
• The poems of Der Pleier
• * Garel von dem blühenden Tal, c. 1230s or c. 1250-80
• * Tandareis und Flordibel c. 1250-80
• * Meleranz c. 1250-80
• Der Mantel, once attributed to Heinrich von dem Türlin.

  Norse

• Brother Robert's prose renditions
• *Tristrams saga ok Ísöndar 1226
• * Ivens Saga 1226
• * Erex Saga, perhaps originally by Robert.
• * Möttuls saga, adaptation of the "ill-fitting mantle" story.
• Strengleikar
• * "Geitarlauf"
• * "Januals ljóð"

  English

• Brut by Layamon
• Sir Tristrem c. 1300
• Arthour and Merlin c. 1300

  Dutch

• Walewein en het schaakbord, by Penninc and Pieter Vostaert
• Roman van Ferguut
• The Lancelot-Compilatie
• * Lanceloet
• * Perchevael
• * Morien
• * Queeste vanden Grale
• * 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, Welsh chronicle adaptation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae
• The Dream of Rhonabwy, Anonymous
• The Black Book of Carmarthen, Anonymous

  14th century

English

• 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
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by The Pearl Poet
• Sir Launfal by Thomas Chestre
• Sir Libeaus Desconus
• Yvain and Gawain
• Sir Perceval of Galles
• Lancelot of the Laik

  Welsh

• Mabinogion, Anonymous
• Culhwch and Olwen
• The Welsh Romances
• * Owain, or the Lady of the Fountain
• * Geraint and Enid
• * Peredur, son of Efrawg

  Italian

• Tavola Rottonda, Anonymous

  French

• Perceforest, Anonymous

  Catalan

• La Faula by Guillem de Torroella

  Greek

• Presbys Hippotes

  15th century

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
• Tavola Ritonda, Anonymous

  Icelandic

• Skikkju Rimur,

  16th century

English

• Arthur of Little Britain
• The Greene Knight, c. 1500
• 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

• Povest Trychane 1560s

  17th century

English

• Works of Richard Johnson
• * Tom a Lincoln
• * The History of Tom Thumbe, the Little, for his small stature surnamed, King Arthurs Dwarfe
• The Birth of Merlin, or, The Childe Hath Found His Father by William Rowley
• Works of Richard Blackmore
• * Prince Arthur: An Heroick Poem in Ten Books
• * King Arthur: An Heroick Poem in Twelve Books

  Yiddish

• Widwilt

  18th century

• Warton, Thomas
• * "The Grave of King Arthur"
• * "On King Arthur's Round-table at Winchester"
• Vortigern and Rowena by W. H. Ireland

  19th century

• The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by James Knowles
• The Boy's King Arthur by Sidney Lanier
• Tristram of Lyonesse by Algernon Charles Swinburne
• Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

  20th century

• 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"
• Kairo-kō by Natsume Sōseki
• 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 the 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.
• ' by Thomas Berger
• The Three Damosels and The Enchantresses by Vera Chapman
• The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• L'Enchanteur by René Barjavel
• The White Raven by Diana L. Paxson
• 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
• * '
• 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 and I am Morgan le Fay 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
• *
• 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
• By Anonymous
• * King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
• To the Chapel Perilous Naomi Mitchison
• Artorius by John Heath-Stubbs
• 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:
• * 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

  21st century

• In the series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott there are many mentions of artifacts and people in the legends of King Arthur.
• The Merlin Codex by Robert Holdstock
• *Celtika
• *The Iron Grail
• *The Broken Kings
• Tales of Guinevere series by Alice Borchardt.
• Corbenic by Catherine Fisher
• I am Morgan le Fay: A Tale from Camelot by Nancy Springer
• Tristan and Isolde series by Rosalind Miles
• Sword of the Rightful King by Jane Yolen
• The House of Pendragon by Debra A. Kemp
• *I: '
• *II: The Recruit
• The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp by Rick Yancey
• Douglas Clegg: Mordred, Bastard Son
• Fate/Zero by Gen Urobuchi
• Dracula vs. King Arthur By Adam Beranek, Christian Beranek and Chris Moreno
• Orion and King Arthur By Ben Bova
• Song of the Sparrow by Lisa Ann Sandell
• Camelot Lost by Jessica Bonito
• Avalon High by Meg Cabot
• The Sangreal Trilogy by Amanda Hemingway
• Sword of Darkness by Kinley MacGregor
• Knight of Darkness by Kinley MacGregor
• Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve
• The Book of Mordred by Vivian Vande Velde
• Sons of Avalon, Merlin's Prophecy by Dee Marie
• Sarah Zettel's four-part series about the brothers Gawain, Gareth, Agravain, and Geraint:
• * In Camelot's Shadow
• * For Camelot's Honor
• * Under Camelot's Banner
• * Camelot's Blood
• Merlin's Dragon Trilogy by T.A. Barron
• * '; originally issued as Merlin's Dragon
• * '
• * '
• The Great Tree of Avalon Trilogy
• * '; originally issued as Child of the Dark Prophecy
• * '
• * '
• The Book of Magic
• * ', companion to the Merlin Saga
• Gwenhwyfar by Mercedes Lackey.
• The Seven Deadly Sins, a manga loosely based on the Arthurian legend, by Nakaba Suzuki
• Sleepless Knights by Mark H. Williams
• The School for Good and Evil, a book series that contains many Arthurian figures, including King Arthur's son - a central character in the books.
• J.R.R. Tolkien - The Fall of Arthur
• Sir Thomas the Hesitant and the Table of the Less Valued Knights by Liam Perrin
• The Morgana Trilogy by Alessa Ellefson
• King Arthur and Her Knights Series, by K.M. Shea.
• The Devices Trilogy by Philip Purser-Hallard, starting with The Pendragon Protocol
• The Eighth Day series by Dianne K. Salerni
• Kazuo Ishiguro - The Buried Giant
• The Space Lore Series, by Chris Dietzel
• Garden of Avalon by Kinoko Nasu
• Harley Merlin by Bella Forrest
• Once & Future by Cori McCarthy and Amy Rose Capetta
• The Guinevere Deception by Kiersten White

  Nonfiction

• Arthur's Britain by Leslie Alcock
• The Quest for Arthur's Britain by Geoffrey Ashe
• The Medieval Quest for Arthur by Robert Rouse and Cory Rushton
• King Arthur: The True Story by Graham Phillips and Martin Keatman
• The Lost Tomb of King Arthur: The search for Camelot and the Isle of Avalon by Graham Phillips
• The Quest for Merlin by Nikolai Tolstoy
• Pendragon: The Origins of Arthur by Steve Blake and Scott Lloyd
• The Arthurian Tradition by John Matthews
• The Age of Arthur: A History of the British Isles from 350 to 650 John Morris
• Journey to Avalon: The Final Discovery of King Arthur by Chris Barber and David Pykitt