Download arthurian texts
Arthurian texts from the oldest one (6th century) to the 16th century. The links are external links and only of free texts without copyright.
*I added the symbol * to my favourite ones and the ones I consider fundamental (and this is my personal opinion).
*I added the symbol * to my favourite ones and the ones I consider fundamental (and this is my personal opinion).
- (~6th-century) De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae (Gildas)
- (~9th-century) The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
- (~10th century) Annales Cambriae *
- (~828) Historia Brittonum (Nennius) *
- (~1136) History of the Kings of Britain (Geoffrey of Monmouth) *
- (~1150) Vita Merlini (Geoffrey of Monmouth) *
- (~1155) Roman de Brut (Wace) *
- (~1170) Lanval (Marie de France)
- (~1170/1190) Four Romances (Chrétien de Troyes) *
- (~1190) Brut (Layamon)
- (~13th century) Perlesvaus (The High History of the Grail) *
- (~13th century) Morien
- (13th century) Parzival (Wolfram von Eschenbach)
- (~1375) The Avowying of Arthur
- (~14th century) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight *
- (~14th century) Libeaus Desconus
- (~14th century) Ywain and Gawain
- (~14th century) Sir Launfal (Thomas Chestre)
- (~14th century) Stanzaic Morte d’Arthur
- (~1400) The Alliterative Morte d’Arthur
- (~1400) Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle
- (~1440) Sir Perceval of Galles
- (1485) Le Morte d’Arthur Volume 1 and Volume 2 (Thomas Malory) *
- (~15th century) The Awntyrs off Arthure
- (~15th century) The Wedding of sir Gawain and dame Ragnell *
- (~1500) The Greene Knight
- (~1500) The Knightly tale of Gologras and Gawain
- (1590/1596) The Faerie Queene (Edmind Spenser)
- (~16th-century) The Misfortunes of Arthur (Thomas Hughes)
- (~16th-century) Melora and Orlando suggested by marytennant
WELSH TEXTS with arthurian references
from the Red Book of Hengest
from the Black Book of Carmarthen
from the Book of Taliesin
Triads
- The triads of the horses *
- Welsh triads (Peniarth MS 54) *
- The twenty-four knights of the round table) *
- Arthur and the Kaledywlch
- King Urien and Modron
- The quarrel of Arthur and Huail
- Trystan and Esyllt
- The dialogue of Melwas and Gwenhyfer (and the second version)
LIFE OF THE SAINTS
- The Legend of St. Goeznovius
- The Life of St. Cadog
- The Life of St. Carannog version 1 - version 2
- The Life of St. Paternus
- The Life of Gildas
- The Life of St. Kentigern
- The Life of St. Illtud
THE BOOK OF ANEIRIN