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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. In order to tell a ...
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 ...
Samuel Burdett Hemingway (ed.) Le Morte Arthur: A Middle English Metrical Romance. Boston/New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1912. L. A. Paton (ed.) Morte Arthur: Two Early English Romances. London: Everyman, 1912. Larry Dean Benson (ed.) King Arthur's Death: The Middle English Stanzaic Morte Arthur and Alliterative Morte Arthure. Indianapolis: Bobbs ...
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.
In Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, Accolon is referred to as Sir Accolon of Gaul. [1] He is the object of desire for Morgan le Fay, King Arthur's half-sister. (As described in Accolon's original story in the Post-Vulgate Suite de Merlin that was Malory's source: "She loved him so madly that she desired to kill her husband [King Urien] and her brother [King Arthur], for she thought she could ...
This account of Arthur's last battle was adapted into many subsequent works of the period from 13th to 15th century, including the Old French Post-Vulgate Cycle (in which Arthur refuses to make peace with Mordred), the Middle English Stanzaic Morte Arthur, [32] and Thomas Malory's influential Middle English work Le Mort d'Arthur. [33]
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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]
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