Adventures in Logres (original) (raw)

The Adventures of Arthur

2013

A translation, done as an undergraduate with Dr. Karen Mura of Susquehanna University, of The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne. Unpublished but available for anyone who wants to use or share it.

Discuss the character and function of the Welsh Arthurian texts

D3 The Arthurian Legend and Its Social Context - English III (Honours) Early English Literature and Language, 1983

The Arthurian legend has fascinated both scholars and the public alike for centuries, and has, in this age of mass production, become something of an industry. Novelists produce retelling of the stories, and scholars search for the "historical" Arthur, and write volumes on the relationships between the various texts, and Arthurs, which have survived the years Most of these treatments of the Arthurian legend are historical, but view the legend independently of its social context. This becomes a handicap when it is apparent that the subject matter of the legend, and its primary purpose, is political, and therefore inextricably bound up with the. working of the societies in which the multifarious Arthurian texts were produced.

Arthur: the Birth of the Anglo-Norman Legends

Geoffrey of Monmouth's claim that he had a source book, brought out of Brittany by his friend Walter, the Archdeacon of Oxford, has been doubted by many. In this paper, I suggest a possible route of transmission, which may lend credibility to the claim.