Category: King Arthur Legendarium
Avalon
Avalon
/ The sacred Isle
/ Separate from the mortal realm
/ Can be glimpsed by the entrancing spell
Spenser’s Faerie Queene and Its Holy Knight, Red Crosse
Spenser’s The Faerie Queene tells a tale on many levels, including an ode to Queen Elizabeth...
C.S. Lewis, Merlin, and Messy Apologetics
When people think about C.S. Lewis and fiction, they often think of the Chronicles of Narnia,...
Always Once and Future: Arthur as Archetype
“According to Jung there exists, in addition to the individual unconscious, a collective...
Gereint and Enid: A Tale of Fidelity and Trust
Gereint and Enid: A Tale of Fidelity and Trust Several of the legends recounted in The Mabinogion,...
Arthur in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land: The Search for Regeneration
T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922) is rich in Arthurian imagery as it explores the dimensions of...
The Sword in the Stone – A Triolet
The Triolet is a lesser-known French medieval poetic form that is a close cousin to the more...
Sir Galahad and the End of the Quest
This tale is presented as if it were a portion of a Medieval manuscript, suddenly found after all...
“No Truste For to Truste In”: Malory’s Apocalyptic Vision in Le Morte D’arthur
Introduction Heaven and earth seem divided by a thin line at times, never closer to one another...
The Myth of Arthur
O learned man who never learned to learn, Save to deduce, by timid steps and small, From towering...
Death and the Knight
Death sheathed his sword.
Its worn grip formed perfectly to his hand. Rainwater washed pools of dark blood and broken teeth across the stony ground, while crows picked flesh from fresh corpses.
The Virtuous Arthur: Resolving a Tension Between Lewis and Spenser
In Images of Life, C.S. Lewis rejects Spenser’s “Letter to Raleigh” as authoritative for...
The Coming of Galahad
His Childhood When Galahad was still a child They let him run full free And roam the castle holds...
Take Up The Tale
As I walked out one morning All in the soft fine rain It seemed as though a silver veil Was...
“To Help the Wrong’d”: Refuge and Sanctuary in the Idylls of the King
This article explores the portrayal of Camelot as a sanctuary in Alfred Tennyson’s Idylls of the...
The True History of the Holy Graal
THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE HOLY GRAAL Donald T. Williams, PhD King’s Poet King’s Man As it was...
Medieval Virtue: Arthur and Sir Gawain, Women and Men
The accounts of King Arthur, as recorded by Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace and Layamon, and the tale...
Return to the Timeless Legend
In the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword...
