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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 ...
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.
Think Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes. ... he read Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Mallory. Unlike me, ... The Little Grey Men has just the right, pint-sized perspective on the world ...
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 Malory's version, this is the sword that had belonged to Balin.) Galahad accomplishes this test with ease, and Arthur swiftly proclaims him to be the greatest knight ever. Galahad is promptly invited to become a Knight of the Round Table, and soon afterwards, Arthur's court witnesses an ethereal vision of the Grail.
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