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Le Morte d'Arthur (originally written as le morte Darthur; Anglo-Norman French for "The Death of Arthur") [1] is a 15th-century Middle English prose reworking by Sir Thomas Malory of tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table, along with their respective folklore.
The author of the Morte Arthure is unknown. In his history of Scotland, Andrew of Wyntoun mentions a poet called Huchoun ("little Hugh"), who he says made a "gret Gest of Arthure, / And þe Awntyr of Gawane, / Þe Pistil als of Suet Susane" [great history of Arthur, / And the Adventure of Gawain, / The Epistle also of Sweet Susan].
Sir Thomas Malory was an English writer, the author of Le Morte d'Arthur, the classic English-language chronicle of the Arthurian legend, compiled and in most cases translated from French sources. The most popular version of Le Morte d'Arthur was published by the famed London printer William Caxton in 1485. Much of Malory's life history is ...
Le Morte d'Arthur names the first daughter Margawse, the second Elayne and the third Morgan. Lancelot is the son of Arthur's sister Clarine in Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet, Caradoc is Arthur's sister's son in the Prose Lancelot, Percival is son of Arthur's sister Acheflour in the English romance Syr Percyvelle. Arthurian tales are not ...
The Death of Arthur may refer to: La Mort le Roi Artu (c. 1225), an Old French prose romance, part of the Lancelot-Grail cycle. The alliterative Morte Arthure (c. 1400), a Middle English poem. Le Morte d'Arthur (1471), a Middle English prose romance by Thomas Malory.
The Pentecostal Oath is an oath which the Knights of King Arthur's Round Table swear in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. It embodies the secular code of chivalry as envisioned by Malory, reconceptualizing the religious, Grail-centered themes of the Round Table from his source, the Post-Vulgate Suite du Merlin. [1]
Draco Normannicus by Étienne de Rouen c. 1169 (an epic chronicle of Normandy, it is the first text to mention Morgan Le Fay as Arthur's sister) 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 ...
Critics typically require a novel to be wholly original and so exclude retellings such as Le Morte d'Arthur. Critics typically make a distinction between collections of short stories, even those sharing common themes and settings, and novels per se, which typically has a single protagonist and narrative throughout.