This is a bibliography of works about King Arthur, his related world, family, friends or enemies. This bibliography includes works that are notable or are by notable authors.
De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae by Gildas, mentions Battle of Mons Badonicus, but famously neglects to mention Arthur
9th century
Historia Britonum attributed to Nennius
Latin
Annales Cambriae, Anonymous
Welsh
Preiddeu Annwfn attributed to Taliesin
"Pa Gur yv y Porthaur" or "Who is the gatekeeper?" 10th century. (Cei Sir Kay's battle with the Cath Palug is mentioned.)
Englynion y Beddau or Stanzas of the graves 9th or 10th century. (Arthur's grave site is a mystery)
Latin
The Legend of St. Goeznovius c. 1019
(Saxon resurgence when Arthur is "recalled from the actions of the world" may be reference to his immortality. Vortigern mentioned)
Welsh
Trioedd Ynys Prydein (Triads of the Isle of Britain) 11th–14th century. (Twelve triads referring to Arthur. Others mention (Mabon) and Drystan (Tristan), etc.)
Trioedd y meirch (The Triads of the Horses) (Mentions the horse names of Cei (Sir Kay), Gwalchmai's horse Ceincaled.)
Tri Thlws ar Ddeg Ynys Prydain (Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain) 15th-16th century
Pedwar marchog ar hugain llys (Twenty-four Knights of Arthur's Court) 15th-16th century) Mentions the sword Caledfwlch and the spear Rhongomiant
Welsh
Culhwch and Olwen, Anonymous, c. 1100
Latin
Vita Sancti Cadoc by Lifris of Llancarfan c. 1061-1104
(Arthur wants to ravish Gwladys whom Gundliauc elopes with, but aids them by Kay and Bedivere's counsel. St. Cadoc harbors a killer of Arthur's men and pays cattle as recompense, but they transform into bundles of ferns.)
Vita Sancti Carannog c. 1100 (At Arthur's requests, Carantoc tames a dragon. Cato (=Kay) is depicted as feeding it.)
Vita Sancti Euflami c. 1100 (Arthur cannot defeat dragon, but Efflam causes it to plunge from a rock through prayer)
Vita Sancti Paternus c. 1120s (Mentions Arthur and Caradoc)
Gesta Regnum Anglorum by William of Malmesbury 1125 (Arthur wears image of Mary; Discovery of Gawain's tomb.)
Historia Anglorum by Henry of Huntingdon 1129 (Mentions Arthur)
Vita Santi Gildae by Caradoc of Llancarfan c. 1120-1130 (early version of Malegant-Guenivere abduction narrative.)
Works of Geoffrey of Monmouth
Historia Regum Britanniae c. 1136-8
Vita Merlini c. 1140
Life of Saint Kentigern by Jocelyn of Furness c. 1185 (Contains a version of the legend of Merlin, here called Lailoken)
Vita Sancti Illtud c. 1190s (Illtud came across from Brittany to visit his cousin Arthur's court. King Mark mentioned.)
French and Anglo-Norman
Roman de Brut by Wace c. 1155 (an Anglo-Norman verse reworking of Historia Regum Britanniae)
Tristan by Thomas of Britain c. 1170s
Tristan by Béroul c. 1170s
Folie Tristan d'Oxford, c. 1175–1200
The Lais of Marie de France c. 1170s
Lanval
Chevrefoil c. 1170s (an episode of the Tristan and Iseult story)
The poems of Chrétien de Troyes
Erec and Enide c. 1170s
Cligés c. 1170s
Yvain, the Knight of the Lion c. 1180s
Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart c. 1180s
Perceval, le Conte du Graal c. 1190
Tristan mentioned but non-extant
The poems of Robert de Boron
Joseph d'Arimathie
Merlin
Perceval
Lai du Cor by Robert Biket. (Caradoc succeeds in drinking from horn, proves wife's chastity.)
La Mantel Mautaillé. (Caradoc's wife passes chastity test by wearing ill-fitting mantel.)
German
Tristan by Eilhart von Oberge c. 1170s
Lanzelet by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven late 12th century (a rendering of a lost French tale of Lancelot that likely predates Chrétien de Troyes's famous Lancelot or the Knight of the Cart. Ulrich von Zatzikhoven obtained a copy of the original book in 1194 and translated the work from French into German.)
The poems of Hartmann von Aue
Iwein, late 12th century (German adaptation of Chrétien's Erec and Enide)
Erec, late 12th century (expanded reworking of Chrétien's Erec and Enide)
French, Anglo-Norman or Provençal
Roman de Fergus by Guillaume le Clerc 1190s/1200s
Jaufré c. 1180 or 1225 (Occitan verse)
Vengeance Raguidel c. 1200-1225 by Raoul (sometimes identified as Raoul de Houdenc)
Lancelot-Grail, Anonymous c. 1210s-1230s
Estoire del Saint Grail
Estoire de Merlin
Lancelot propre
Queste del Saint Graal
Mort Artu
Perlesvaus, Anonymous, c. 1210s
Prose Tristan by "Luce de Gat" (1230s) and "Helie de Boron" (c. 1240)
Roman de Roi Artus aka Compilation by Rusticiano (Rustichello da Pisa); Franco-Italian, c. 1290s -1300
Gyron le courtois (A portion of the Compilation published 1501?)
Meliadus de Leonnoys (Another portion, published 1528 by Galliot du Pré, 1532 by Denys Janot)
German
Tristan by Gottfried von Strassburg c. 1210s
Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach c. 1210s
Daniel von Blumenthal by Der Stricker c. 1220
Diu Crône Heinrich von dem Türlin
The poems of Der Pleier
Garel von dem blühenden Tal, c. 1230s or c. 1250-80
Tandareis und Flordibel c. 1250-80
Meleranz c. 1250-80
Der Mantel, once attributed to Heinrich von dem Türlin. (The "ill-fitting mantle" chastity test theme)
Norse
Brother Robert's prose renditions
Tristrams saga ok Ísöndar 1226 (Norse reworking Tristan by Thomas of Britain)
Ivens Saga 1226 (Norse reworking of Chrétien de Troyes' Yvain, the Knight of the Lion)
Erex Saga, perhaps originally by Robert. (Text probably changed in MS. transmission. A Norse reworking of Chrétien's Erec and Enide)
Möttuls saga, adaptation of the "ill-fitting mantle" story.
Strengleikar (Translations of lais mostly by Marie de France)
"Geitarlauf" (Translation of Chevrefoil)
"Januals ljóð" (Translation of Lanval)
English
Brut by Layamon (English reworking of Historia Regum Britanniae)
Sir Tristrem c. 1300 (English reworking of Tristan by Thomas of Britain)
Arthur and Merlin c. 1300
Dutch
Walewein en het schaakbord, by Penninc and Pieter Vostaert
Roman van Ferguut (translation and reworking of the Roman de Fergus)
The Lancelot-Compilatie (an adaptation of the Lancelot-Grail and other romances, 10 in all:)
Lanceloet
Perchevael
Morien (Moriaen)
Queeste vanden Grale
Wrake van Ragisel (Adaptation of Vengeance Raguidel)
Ridder metter mouwen ("The Knight with the Sleeve" )
Walewein ende Keye
Lanceloet en het hert met de witte voet ("Lancelot and the Stag with the White Foot")
Torec, by Jacob van Maerlant
Arturs doet
Hebrew
Melech Artu A Hebrew reworking of the Historia Regum Brittanie
Welsh
Brut y Brenhinedd, Welsh chronicle adaptation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae
The Dream of Rhonabwy, Anonymous
The Black Book of Carmarthen, Anonymous (Mentions Arthur)
English
Alliterative Morte Arthure, Anonymous
Stanzaic Morte Arthur, Anonymous
The Avowyng of Arthur
The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle, Anonymous
The Awntyrs off Arthure, Anonymous
Sir Cleges (not closely related to Chrestien's Cliges; set in Uther Pendragon's court.)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by The Pearl Poet
Sir Launfal by Thomas Chestre (a remaking of the lai of Lanval)
Sir Libeaus Desconus
Yvain and Gawain
Sir Perceval of Galles
Lancelot of the Laik
Welsh
(All dates for the Welsh compositions are controversial)
Mabinogion, Anonymous
Culhwch and Olwen (recorded)
The Welsh Romances
Owain, or the Lady of the Fountain
Geraint and Enid
Peredur, son of Efrawg
Italian
Tavola Rotonda, Anonymous
French
Perceforest, Anonymous
Catalan
La Faula by Guillem de Torroella
Greek
Presbys Hippotes (Greek reworking of part of Rustichello da Pisa's Compilations)
English
Arthur
Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
Prose Merlin
"King Arthur and King Cornwall"
Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle
Italian
Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo
Tavola ritonda, Anonymous
Icelandic
Skikkju Rimur, (a rendition of the "ill-fitting mantle" story)
English
Arthur of Little Britain
The Greene Knight c. 1500
The Boy and the Mantle (ballad in the Percy folio, chastity test story of the "ill-fitting mantle" and the horn)
The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain 1508
The Jeaste of Sir Gawain
The Misfortunes of Arthur by Thomas Hughes 1587
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser 1590
Welsh
Tristan Romance, preserved in fragmentary form in several MSS.
Byelo-Russian
Povest Trychane 1560s
English
Works of Richard Johnson
Tom a Lincoln (1607)
The History of Tom Thumbe, the Little, for his small stature surnamed, King Arthurs Dwarfe (1621)
The Birth of Merlin, or, The Childe Hath Found His Father by William Rowley (?1620; first published 1662)
Works of Richard Blackmore
Prince Arthur: An Heroick Poem in Ten Books (1695)
King Arthur: An Heroick Poem in Twelve Books (1697)
Yiddish
Widwilt (Yiddish reworking of Le Bel Inconnu)
18th century
Warton, Thomas (1728–1790)
"The Grave of King Arthur" (1777)
"On King Arthur's Round-table at Winchester" (1777)
Vortigern and Rowena by W. H. Ireland (1799) (A Shakespearian forgery)
19th century
The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1833)
The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by James Knowles (1862)
The Boy's King Arthur by Sidney Lanier (1880)
Tristram of Lyonesse by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1882)
Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1856–1885)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain (1889)
20th century
Howard Pyle - In a four volume set including:
"The Story of King Arthur and His Knights" (1903)
"The Story of the Champions of the Round Table" (1905)
"The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions" (1907)
"The Story of the Grail and the Passing of King Arthur" (1910)
Kairo-kō (1905) by Natsume Sōseki
The Life of Sir Aglovale de Galis (1905) by Clemence Housman
War in Heaven (1930) by Charles W. S. Williams, a "modern-day" (20th century) quest for the Holy Grail
The Little Wench (1935) by Philip Lindsay
Merlin's Godson by H. Warner Munn
King of the World's Edge (1936)
The Ship from Atlantis (1967)
Merlin's Ring (1974)
Taliessin through Logres (1938) and The Region of the Summer Stars (1944) by Charles W. S. Williams (poem cycles)
The Once and Future King by T. H. White including
The Sword in the Stone (1938)
The Queen of Air and Darkness (or The Witch in the Wood) (1939)
The Ill-Made Knight (1940)
The Candle in the Wind (1958)
The Book of Merlyn (1958)
That Hideous Strength (1945) by C. S. Lewis
Porius (A Romance of the Dark Ages) (1951) by John Cowper Powys
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (1953) by Roger Lancelyn Green
The Great Captains (1956) by Henry Treece
Rosemary Sutcliff's Arthurian novels:
The Lantern Bearers (1959)
Sword at Sunset (1963)
Tristan and Iseult (1971)
The Shining Company (1990), a retelling of the Y Gododdin, which contains the earliest mention of Arthur's name
The Arthurian Trilogy (1979-1981), re-issued in an omnibus edition in 2007 as The King Arthur Trilogy:
The Light Beyond the Forest (1979)
The Sword and the Circle (1981)
The Road to Camlann (1981)
The Merlin series by Mary Stewart
The Crystal Cave (1970)
The Hollow Hills (1973)
The Last Enchantment (1979)
The Wicked Day (1983)
The Prince and the Pilgrim (1995)
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1975) by John Steinbeck
Arthur Rex: A Legendary Novel by Thomas Berger (1978)
The Three Damosels (1978) and The Enchantresses (1998) by Vera Chapman (the latter with Mike Ashley)
The Mists of Avalon (1983) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
L'Enchanteur (1984) by René Barjavel
The White Raven (1988) by Diana L. Paxson (Tristan and Isseult)
The Pendragon Cycle by Stephen Lawhead
Taliesin (1987)
Merlin (1988)
Arthur (1989)
Pendragon (1994)
Grail (1997)
Avalon (1999)
The Guinevere trilogy by Persia Woolley
Child of the Northern Spring (1987)
Queen of the Summer Stars (1991)
Guinevere: The Legend in Autumn (1993)
Knight Life (1987), One Knight Only (2004) and Fall of Knight (2007) by Peter David
The Road to Avalon (1988) by Joan Wolf
The Arthor series by A. A. Attanasio
The Dragon and the Unicorn (1994)
The Eagle and the Sword (1997)
The Wolf and the Crown (1998)
The Serpent and the Grail (1999)
The Child Queen (1994), The High Queen (1995), (collected in Queen of Camelot(2002)), Prince of Dreams (2004), and Grail Prince (2003) by Nancy McKenzie
I am Mordred (1998) and I am Morgan le Fay (2001) by Nancy Springer
Hallowed Isle by Diana L. Paxson: The Book of the Sword (1999), The Book of the Spear (1999), The Book of the Cauldron (1999), The Book of the Stone (2000).
The Guenevere novels by Rosalind Miles
Guenevere, Queen of the Summer Country (1999)
The Knight of the Sacred Lake (2000)
Child of the Holy Grail (2000)
The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell
The Winter King
Enemy of God
Excalibur
By Jane Yolen:
Sword of the Rightful King
The Young Merlin Trilogy
By Gerald Morris:
The Squire's Tale
The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady
The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf
Parsifal's Page
The Ballad of Sir Dinadan
The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung-Cart Knight
The Lioness and her Knight
The Quest of the Fair Unknown
Squire's Quest
The Legend of the King
The Adventures of Sir Givret the Short
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great
By Molly Cochran and Warren Murphy
The Forever King
The Broken Sword
The Third Magic
The Coming of the King: The First Book of Merlin by Nikolai Tolstoy (1988)
Stones of Power by David Gemmell
Ghost King (1988)
Last Sword of Power (1988)
By Anonymous
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (Illustrated Junior Library, Deluxe edition, September 1, 1950)
To the Chapel Perilous Naomi Mitchison (1955)
Artorius by John Heath-Stubbs
Our Man in Camelot by Anthony Price (1975) (The sixth book in the Dr David Audley series uses the Arthur myth as a MacGuffin in a modern spy thriller.)
By Parke Godwin
Firelord (1980)
Beloved Exile (1984)
The Last Rainbow (1985)
The Pendragon's Banner Trilogy by Helen Hollick (re-published UK 2007 & USA 2009)
Book One: The Kingmaking (1994)
Book Two: Pendragon's Banner (1995)
Book Three: Shadow of the King (1997)
The Tales of Arthur, books of The Keltiad, by Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
The Hawk's Grey Feather (1991)
The Oak Above the Kings (1994)
The Hedge of Mist (1996)
A Dream of Eagles (Camulod Chronicles) by Jack Whyte
The Sky Stone (1992)
The Singing Sword (1993)
The Eagles' Brood (1994)
The Saxon Shore (1998)
The Sorcerer Part 1: The Fort at River's Bend (1997)
The Sorcerer Part 2: The Sorcerer: Metamorphosis (1999)
Uther (2001)
Clothar the Frank (titled The Lance Thrower outside of Canada) (2004)
The Eagle (2006)
The Lost Years of Merlin Epic, by T.A. Barron
The Lost Years of Merlin (1996)
The Seven Songs of Merlin (1997)
The Fires of Merlin (1998)
The Mirror of Merlin (1999)
The Wings of Merlin (2000)
Albion, a trilogy of historical novels by British author Patrick McCormack (1997, 2000, 2007)
The King Awakes and The Empty Throne by Janice Elliott, set in a Medieval-style society several generations after a nuclear war. Both novels deal with the return of King Arthur and his friendship with a youth from the post-holocaust world
Merlin's Bones by Fred Saberhagen
The Idylls of the Queen by Phyllis Ann Karr
Eagle in the Snow by Wallace Breem; the coming of Arthur is foreseen by the chief of Segontium in the last page of the book
The Winter Prince by Elizabeth Wein
The Dragon Lord by David Drake
Merlin's Mirror (1975) by Andre Norton
The Return of Merlin (1995) by Deepak Chopra
Camelot 3000, a comic book series that reincarnates Arthur and his knights in the far future
The Dark Is Rising, a series written for older children and young adults, by Susan Cooper
The Fionavar Tapestry, a fantasy trilogy by Canadian author Guy Gavriel Kay
The Merlin Mystery, A puzzlehunt book which focused heavily on Merlin and Nimue having a love after Arthur has been entombed; it offered a cash prize as well as a gold, silver, bronze and crystal wand. However, the puzzle went unsolved and the prize unclaimed.
The Down the Long Wind series by Gillian Bradshaw (1980–82)
Hawk of May
Kingdom of Summer
In Winter's Shadow
The Little Wench by Philip Lindsay
Merlin (1978) by Robert Nye
21st century
In the series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott there are many mentions of artifacts and people in the legends of King Arthur.
The Merlin Codex by Robert Holdstock
Celtika (2001)
The Iron Grail (2002)
The Broken Kings (2007)
Corbenic by Catherine Fisher (2002)
I am Morgan le Fay: A Tale from Camelot by Nancy Springer (2002)
Sword of the Rightful King by Jane Yolen (2003)
The House of Pendragon by Debra A. Kemp
I: The Firebrand (2003)
II: The Recruit (2007)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp by Rick Yancey (2005)
Douglas Clegg: Mordred, Bastard Son (2006)
Fate/Zero by Gen Urobuchi (2006-2007)
Dracula vs. King Arthur By Adam Beranek, Christian Beranek and Chris Moreno (2007)
Orion and King Arthur By Ben Bova (2011)
Song of the Sparrow by Lisa Ann Sandell (2007)
Camelot Lost by Jessica Bonito (Jessica McHugh) (2008)
Avalon High by Meg Cabot
The Sangreal Trilogy by Amanda Hemingway
Sword of Darkness by Kinley MacGregor
Knight of Darkness by Kinley MacGregor
Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve
The Book of Mordred by Vivian Vande Velde
Sons of Avalon, Merlin's Prophecy by Dee Marie (2008)
Sarah Zettel's four-part series about the brothers Gawain, Gareth, Agravain, and Geraint:
In Camelot's Shadow (2004)
For Camelot's Honor (2005)
Under Camelot's Banner (2006)
Camelot's Blood (2008)
The Seven Deadly Sins, a manga loosely based on the Arthurian legend, by Nakaba Suzuki (2012–present)
The Devices Trilogy by Philip Purser-Hallard, starting with The Pendragon Protocol (2014)
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Fall of Arthur (2013, written in the 1920s-30s)
Kazuo Ishiguro - The Buried Giant (2015)
Garden of Avalon by Kinoko Nasu
Nonfiction
Arthur's Britain by Leslie Alcock
The Quest for Arthur's Britain by Geoffrey Ashe
The Medieval Quest for Arthur by Robert Rouse and Cory Rushton
King Arthur: The True Story by Graham Phillips and Martin Keatman
The Quest for Merlin by Nikolai Tolstoy (1985)
Pendragon: The Origins of Arthur by Steve Blake and Scott Lloyd
The Arthurian Tradition by John Matthews
The Age of Arthur: A History of the British Isles from 350 to 650 John Morris
