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Record Nr.

UNISA996393133703316

Autore

Malory Thomas, Sir, <15th cent.>

Titolo

[Le Morte Darthur] [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Imprynted at London, : In Fletestrete at [the] sygne of sonne, by Wynkyn de Worde, In the yere of our lord god. M. CCCCC. xxix. the .xviij. daye of Nouember] [1529]

ISBN

1-84870-489-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1206 p.)

Collana

Classics of World Literature

Altri autori (Persone)

GriffithTom

Disciplina

823.2

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction; The Writer and his Times; The Work; Notes to the Introduction; Suggestions for Further Reading; Note on the Text; Preface of William Caxton; Book 1; Chapter 1; How Uther Pendragon sent for the duke of Cornwall and Igraine his wife, and of their departing suddenly again; Chapter 2; How Uther Pendragon made war on the duke of Cornwall, and how by the mean of Merlin he lay by the duchess and gat Arthur; Chapter 3; Of the birth of King Arthur and of his nurture; Chapter 4; Of the death of King Uther Pendragon; Chapter 5

How Arthur was chosen king, and of wonders and marvels of a sword taken out of a stone by the said ArthurChapter 6; How King Arthur pulled out the sword divers times; Chapter 7; How King Arthur was crowned and how he made officers; Chapter 8; How King Arthur held in Wales, at a Pentecost, a great feast, and what kings and lords came to his feast; Chapter 9; Of the first war that King Arthur had, and how he won the field; Chapter 10; How Merlin counselled King Arthur to send for King Ban and King Bors, and of their counsel taken for the war; Chapter 11

Of a great tourney made by King Arthur and the two kings Ban and Bors, and how they went over the seaChapter 12; How eleven kings gathered a great host against King Arthur; Chapter 13; Of a dream of the King with the Hundred Knights; Chapter 14; How the eleven kings with their host fought against Arthur and his host, and many great



feats of the war; Chapter 15; Yet of the same battle; Chapter 16; Yet more of the same battle; Chapter 17; Yet more of the same battle, and how it was ended by Merlin; Chapter 18

How King Arthur, King Ban, and King Bors rescued King Leodegrance, and other incidentsChapter 19; How King Arthur rode to Carlion, and of his dream, and how he saw the questing beast; Chapter 20; How King Pellinore took Arthur's horse and followed the Questing Beast, and how Merlin met with Arthur; Chapter 21; How Ulfius impeached Queen Igraine, Arthur's mother, of treason;  and how a knight came and desired to have the death of his master revenged; Chapter 22; How Griflet was made knight, and jousted with a knight; Chapter 23

How twelve knights came from Rome and asked truage for this land of Arthur, and how Arthur fought with a knightChapter 24; How Merlin saved Arthur's life, and threw an enchantment on King Pellinore and made him to sleep; Chapter 25; How Arthur by the mean of Merlin gat Excalibur his sword of the Lady of the Lake; Chapter 26; How tidings came to Arthur that King Rience had overcome eleven kings, and how he desired Arthur's beard to trim his mantle; Chapter 27; How all the children were sent for that were born on May-day, and how Mordred was saved; Book 2; Chapter 1

Of a damosel which came girt with a sword for to find a man of such virtue to draw it out of the scabbard

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018