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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Arthurian Legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Arthurian Legend, group of tales in several languages that concern the legendary King Arthur of the Britons, his realm, and the knights of his inner circle.
		The Arthurian story is not only retold and reinterpreted, it is also regularly recast in science fiction and fantasy, in political tracts and social satire, and in light comedies and serious efforts to depict the sometimes dark realities of the medieval world.
		Arthurian art, like the literature devoted to the legend, became less popular after the Middle Ages ended in the 15th century, but, again like the literature, it experienced a dramatic rebirth in the 19th century and has flourished ever since.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Arthurian-Legend (499 words)

	Arthurian Legend - MSN Encarta
		Arthurian Legend, group of tales in several languages that concern the legendary King Arthur of the Britons, his realm, and the knights of his inner circle.
		The Arthurian story is not only retold and reinterpreted, it is also regularly recast in science fiction and fantasy, in political tracts and social satire, and in light comedies and serious efforts to depict the sometimes dark realities of the medieval world.
		Arthurian art, like the literature devoted to the legend, became less popular after the Middle Ages ended in the 15th century, but, again like the literature, it experienced a dramatic rebirth in the 19th century and has flourished ever since.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761559016/Arthurian_Legend.html (2818 words)

	ARTHURIAN LEGEND, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The legend is a complex weaving of ancient Celtic mythology with later traditions around a core of possible historical authenticity.
		The oldest of the French Arthurian romances is a series of 12th-century poems by Chrétien de Troyes.
		English Arthurian romances, dating from the 13th and 14th centuries, concerned individual knights—Percivale and Galahad, the Grail knights, and especially Gawain.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=201574 (1037 words)

	§8. The French Romances. XII. The Arthurian Legend. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The ...
		The full value of the Arthurian stories as poetic and romantic matter and, in particular, their possibilities of adaptation and expansion as ideal tales of chivalry, were first perceived in France, or, at any rate, by writers who used the French language.
		This was the literary form in which the Arthurian legend made its first appearance in English.
		The most celebrated name associated with the authorship of these prose works is that of Walter Map, who, calling, as he does, the Welsh his “fellow-countrymen,” 49 brings Wales and the Angevin court, once more, into touch with the development of the Arthurian legend.
	www.bartleby.com /211/1208.html (418 words)

	Arthurian/Legend-LB
		For her the value of the legends is in the captivating stories they tell, and her deck focuses on the storytelling aspects.
		Another choice I didn’t care for in Legend was that of using the story of the Red Knight, and his practice of hanging his defeated opponents from the trees outside his castle, to illustrate the Hanged Man. The picture shows a knight hanging by his neck from a noose, obviously dead.
		For example, Sovereignty is the goddess of the land, an important concept in the Arthurian myths; to quote the Matthews, "she is the epicentre about which the Arthurian legends revolve…[she] represents the inherent unity of the King and the land." In the Arthurian she is chosen for the Justice card.
	www.tarotpassages.com /arthurianlegendlb.htm (2247 words)

	Encyclopedia Mythica: Arthurian legend
		To many, it is the allure of the "brief, shining moment" when the timeless ideals of chivalry were upheld and embodied as literature in ofttimes strange and beautiful prose, poetry and music.
		Others are drawn to the mystical and magical elements of legends like the Sword in the Stone, characters like the Lady of the Lake and noble endeavours like the Quest for the Holy Grail.
		Finally, to some, it is the missing history shrouded in eternal mystery, the fact that we may never know the truth about the King and his Knights of the Table Round, that drives them to forge on in study.
	www.pantheon.org /areas/folklore/arthurian (342 words)

	Timeless Myths: Arthurian Legends
		Arthurian Legends contain tales and knightly romances from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Sir Thomas Malory.
		I have now included non-Arthurian subjects, such as the Frankish legend of Charlemagne and the Twelve Peers, in a new section, called the Songs of Deeds, which was translated from Old French chansons de geste.
		Arthurian Legends is a division of Timeless Myths.
	www.timelessmyths.com /arthurian/index.html (525 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Arthurian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		in Arthurian legend, magician, seer, and teacher at the court of King Vortigern and later at the court of King Arthur.
		In Arthurian legend he is famous as a magician and as the counselor of King Arthur.
		The real Sword in the Stone: the Sword in the Stone of St. Galgano, a twelfth-century Tuscan hermit, has been investigated, and the striking coincidences between his life and parts of the Arthurian legends are examined.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Arthurian (709 words)

	Arthurian Legend
		The Arthurian legends were based on the books written by the clerics of the Medieval era or the Middles Ages.
		These Arthurian legends and myths about "the one, true King of the Britons" were used by Kings of England to authenticate their claims to the both the Welsh and English thrones!
		The stories from Arthurian Legend was clearly used by the Medieval 'Spin Doctors' to strengthen the claims of Medieval Kings to both the English and Welsh thrones - they had a huge influence on the course of actual English and Welsh history.
	www.castles.me.uk /arthurian-legend.htm (743 words)

	Arthurian legend. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Formerly, it was thought that the Arthurian legend was the work of several inventive poets and romancers of the Middle Ages.
		The resultant legend with its hero, Arthur, was transmitted to their Breton cousins on the Continent probably by the year 1000.
		To modern readers, Arthurian legend has become the mirror of the ideal of medieval knighthood and chivalry.
	www.bartelby.com /65/ar/Arthuria.html (962 words)

	The Arthurian Legend
		Arthurian legend and the chansons de geste furnished bases for many later romances and epics.
		Arthurian FAQ Provides a listing of questions broken down into subcategories detailing characters, locations, the Holy Grail, and books and film.
		Arthurian Legends Educational approach designed to span the disciplines and place the legend into perspective.
	www.ramsdale.org /legend.htm (2878 words)

	The Power of the Arthurian Legend
		This legend contains the maps of how to live an empowered human life and the information and energy needed to realise the dreams and visions we have carried deep within our hearts and minds for thousands of years.
		The legend never moves beyond being an intellectual experience and you do not realise the potential of the legend to change and enhance your life.
		Living legends cannot be limited to our physical world of time/space; they exist in both worlds and move between them.
	www.omplace.com /articles/Arthurian_Legend.html (771 words)

	Camelot In Four Colors: A Survey of the Arthurian Legend in Comics
		The legend of King Arthur has been told and retold in many forms over the past fourteen centuries.
		Because of both the malleable quality of the legend and the storytelling conventions of the comics medium, the boundaries between these categories are often blurred.
		I am aware that some users of this resource will be more familiar with the Arthurian legend than with comics and vice versa.
	www.camelot4colors.com (964 words)

	Arthurian Legends Web Sites - McHi
		Arthurian Legends [uiuc.edu] - a web-based, interdisciplinary approach for educators.
		Arthurian Research - offers research covering King Arthur I of the late fourth century and King Arthur II of the sixth century.
		Medieval Arthurian Legends - Near the end of this page (part of a master's thesis) is brief, general information about Malory's "Morte d'Arthur" and its three divisions.
	mws.mcallen.isd.tenet.edu /mchi/library/arthurian.html (666 words)

	Arthurian Booklist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fiction: novelizations of the Camelot legend, or novels that use significant elements of the legend.
		The first, by Williams, is a lengthy history of the development of the Arthurian legend, discussing the entry of the various great themes (i.e., courtly love, the Grail, etc.) and how it affected the legend that had existed to that point.
		Anonymous, Arthurian cycle: Lancelot of the Lake, The Quest of the Holy Grail, and The Death of Arthur.
	www.io.com /~tittle/books/arthurian.html (9231 words)

	Arthurian Legend
		The legend of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table is the most powerful and enduring in the western world.
		The Arthurian legend has existed for over a thousand years and is just as compelling today as it was in the faraway days of its early creators - Geoffrey of Monmouth, Robert de Boron, Chrétien de Troyes, and most majestically: Sir Thomas Malory in his epic work, Le Morte d'Arthur.
		His story of Le Morte d'Arthur, completed during the ninth year of the English King Edward IV's reign (4th March 1469 to 3rd March 1470), is the the definitive and inclusive Arthurian epic and the source of much of the Arthurian legend as we know it today.
	www.arthurian-legend.com (1290 words)

	Arthurian legend
		Arthurian legend or the Matter of Britain is a name given collectively to the legends that concern the Celtic and legendary history of the British Isles, especially those centering around King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table.
		Various Celtic deities have been identified with characters from Arthurian literature as well: Morgan le Fay was often thought to have originally been the Irish goddess Mrr¤gan.
		The Arthurian literary cycle is the best known part of the Matter of Britain.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Arthurian_legend.php (934 words)

	King Arthur Fact, semi-legend or myth introduction
		As the symbolism of Stonehenge, of the 'Stone Beliefs', and of the 'Earth Mother', began to be interwoven with the Cycle, early Arthurian legends can be seen to have been packed with Gods, or their descendants.
		One such Arthurian legend connection can be seen in ancient Egyptian mythology, when the qualities and duties of 'Osiris, God of the not-dead' reflect an Arthur that has become familiar to us (See Osiris).
		Whilst it will be seen that many of the Arthurian stories were, it seems, no more than legend, perhaps being based on composite ancient mythologies, what we do begin to see is the beginning of the revelation.
	www.mystical-www.co.uk /king_arthur (1114 words)

	Arthurian Legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The legend itself is a complicated blend of Celtic sources reaching back to the ninth century, assorted later British sources, and the French narratives of the twelfth century.
		The legend today represents the fifteenth-century reworking by Thomas Malory and revived in the nineteenth century by Tennyson.
		Arthurian material is introduced very slowly into the extended narratives.
	mason.gmu.edu /~rutledge/medfc/arth-frm.htm (1167 words)

	The Quest
		Arthurian Legends A to Z - A dictionary of characters and Arthurian terms.
		Arthurian Characters - An alphabetical guide to the various characters who play a part in the early Arthurian Legend and their nature
		Britannia Arthurian Character Bios - Brief biographies of the various characters in the Arthurian Legends.
	www.moraga.k12.ca.us /JM/Resources/ArthurWeb/Quest.htm (1983 words)

	Arthurian Film
		Delannoy's updating of the legend of Tristan and Isolde, with a screenplay by Jean Cocteau, is for all its brilliance nonetheless tainted by racist ideas that made it acceptable to the Nazi occupiers of wartime France.
		This made-for-cable-television retelling of the legend of Arthur as "her"-story is based on the series of popular novels written during the 1980s by Persia Woolley.
		Legend of Gawain and the Green Knight, The (1983).
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/acpbibs/harty.htm (11005 words)

	Arthurian Legend - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Arthurian Legend - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Arthurian Legend, group of tales in several languages that concern the legendary King Arthur of the Britons, his realm, and the knights of his inner...
		Arthurian Legend : pictures from the Arthurian legend
	encarta.msn.com /Arthurian_Legend.html (160 words)

	Amazon.com: Legend: The Arthurian Tarot: Books: Anna Marie Ferguson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Maybe it is the Legend itself, it is a nice myth, but should not be used for divination or spiritual seeking.
		From a young age I felt connected emotionally with the legends of King Arthur and have read and studied the legends for a decade.
		Ferguson takes information from all of the sources on Arthurian legend to give you a clearer and unbiased view of who these characters were.
	www.amazon.com /Legend-Arthurian-Anna-Marie-Ferguson/dp/1567182674 (1769 words)

	20000-NAMES.COM: Female Arthurian Legend Names, page 1 of 1--meaning, origin, etymology
		French form of Welsh Gwenhwyvar, meaning "white and smooth." This is the name of the queen consort of King Arthur.
		Triad 53 lists the slap that Gwenevak gave Guinevere as one of the "Three Harmful Blows of the Island of Britain." And Triad 54 describes how Mordred raided Arthur's court and threw Guinevere to the ground and beat her.
		: "Fair aspect." Arthurian legend name of the tragic Irish princess who was the mistress of Tristram.
	www.20000-names.com /female_arthurian_legend_names.htm (1533 words)

	Amazon.com: Arthurian Legends: An Illustrated Anthology: Books: Richard Barber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		From lost legends and scraps of history, from facts and folklore, has been fashioned one of the greatest epics in all literature, full of the world's splendours, heroic loves and spiritual quests.
		This anthology is a celebration of the magical and mysterious world founded on the figure of an obscure Welsh princeling, of Arthur's exploits in literature, of his far-famed knights and their ladies, of all the high trappings of romance.
		All the great Arthurian writers are represented,from France, Germany and England, and the text is complemented by a superb selection of full colour illustrations.
	www.amazon.com /Arthurian-Legends-Illustrated-Richard-Barber/dp/0851151108 (981 words)

	Arthurian Legend - Le Morte d'Arthur in pictures
		With their intense and enigmatic beauty and originality of style, Francoise Taylor's Arthurian engravings are unique.
		If you are interested in acquiring one or more superb giclée prints of the original engravings, please contact me through this website's feedback page, making sure you provide your contact details.
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	www.arthurian-legend.com /arthurian-legend-acquire-pictures.php (520 words)

	Arthurian Legends - Literature and Medieval Romance
		Arthurian legends have contributed immeasurably to our spiritual growth and cultural identity.
		Tennyson's epic poem breaths life into the Arthurian legend, transforming the old stories into a cohesive vision of destiny and character.
		For a short, yet capable, article on the development and evolution of Arthurian themes in medieval literature, see The Medieval Development of Arthurian Literature.
	www.heartoglory.com /medieval/arthurian-legends.php (562 words)

	EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
		The legends surrounding King Arthur probably grew out of the struggles of a Celtic chieftain and his warriors in southwestern England against invading Saxons during the 6th century.
		Use the resources of the Labyrinth website to introduce students to the vast historical period embraced by the King Arthur legend, stretching from the 5th century, when he may have lived, to the 15th century when Sir Thomas Malory gave the story its most influential form in Le Morte D’Arthur.
		As a supplemental activity, students might create additional works of art based on the Arthurian legends, which may be shared with the class as paintings, prints, comic books/graphic novels, posters, decorations for ceramic objects, jewelry or costumes.
	edsitement.neh.gov /view_lesson_plan.asp?id=235 (3527 words)

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