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Autore: | Malory Thomas |
Titolo: | Le Morte d'Arthur : Bestsellers and famous Books |
Pubblicazione: | Dinslaken : , : anboco, , 2016 |
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Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (999 pages) |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- LE MORTE D'ARTHUR -- King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table -- By Sir Thomas Malory -- IN TWO VOLS.-VOL. I -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE -- PREFACE OF WILLIAM CAXTON -- BOOK I -- CHAPTER I. How Uther Pendragon sent for the duke of Cornwall and Igraine his wife, and of their departing suddenly again. -- CHAPTER II. 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 III. Of the birth of King Arthur and of his nurture. -- CHAPTER IV. Of the death of King Uther Pendragon. -- CHAPTER V. How Arthur was chosen king, and of wonders and marvels of a sword taken out of a stone by the said Arthur. -- CHAPTER VI. How King Arthur pulled out the sword divers times. -- CHAPTER VII. How King Arthur was crowned, and how he made officers. -- CHAPTER VIII. How King Arthur held in Wales, at a Pentecost, a great feast, and what kings and lords came to his feast. -- CHAPTER IX. Of the first war that King Arthur had, and how he won the field. -- CHAPTER X. How Merlin counselled King Arthur to send for King Ban and King Bors, and of their counsel taken for the war. -- CHAPTER XI. Of a great tourney made by King Arthur and the two kings Ban and Bors, and how they went over the sea. -- CHAPTER XII. How eleven kings gathered a great host against King Arthur. -- CHAPTER XIII. Of a dream of the King with the Hundred Knights. -- CHAPTER XIV. How the eleven kings with their host fought against Arthur and his host, and many great feats of the war. -- CHAPTER XV. Yet of the same battle. -- CHAPTER XVI. Yet more of the same battle. -- CHAPTER XVII. Yet more of the same battle, and how it was ended by Merlin. -- CHAPTER XVIII. How King Arthur, King Ban, and King Bors rescued King Leodegrance, and other incidents. |
CHAPTER XIX. How King Arthur rode to Carlion, and of his dream, and how he saw the questing beast. -- CHAPTER XX. How King Pellinore took Arthur's horse and followed the Questing Beast, and how Merlin met with Arthur. -- CHAPTER XXI. How Ulfius impeached Queen Igraine, Arthur's mother, of treason -- and how a knight came and desired to have the death of his master -- CHAPTER XXII. How Griflet was made knight, and jousted with a knight -- CHAPTER XXIII. How twelve knights came from Rome and asked truage for this land of Arthur, and how Arthur fought with a knight. -- CHAPTER XXIV. How Merlin saved Arthur's life, and threw an enchantment on King Pellinore and made him to sleep. -- CHAPTER XXV. How Arthur by the mean of Merlin gat Excalibur his sword of the Lady of the Lake. -- CHAPTER XXVI. How tidings came to Arthur that King Rience had overcome eleven kings, and how he desired Arthur's beard to trim his mantle. -- CHAPTER XXVII. How all the children were sent for that were born on May-day, and how Mordred was saved. -- BOOK II. -- CHAPTER I. Of a damosel which came girt with a sword for to find a man of such virtue to draw it out of the scabbard. -- CHAPTER II. How Balin, arrayed like a poor knight, pulled out the sword, which afterward was the cause of his death. -- CHAPTER III. How the Lady of the Lake demanded the knight's head that had won the sword, or the maiden's head. -- CHAPTER IV. How Merlin told the adventure of this damosel. -- CHAPTER V. How Balin was pursued by Sir Lanceor, knight of Ireland, and how he jousted and slew him. -- CHAPTER VI. How a damosel, which was love to Lanceor, slew herself for love, and how Balin met with his brother Balan. -- CHAPTER VII. How a dwarf reproved Balin for the death of Lanceor, and how King Mark of Cornwall found them, and made a tomb over them. | |
CHAPTER VIII. How Merlin prophesied that two the best knights of the world should fight there, which were Sir Lancelot and Sir Tristram. -- CHAPTER IX. How Balin and his brother, by the counsel of Merlin, took King Rience and brought him to King Arthur. -- CHAPTER X. How King Arthur had a battle against Nero and King Lot of Orkney, and how King Lot was deceived by Merlin, and how twelve kings were slain. -- CHAPTER XI. Of the interment of twelve kings, and of the prophecy of Merlin, and how Balin should give the dolorous stroke. -- CHAPTER XII. How a sorrowful knight came before Arthur, and how Balin fetched him, and how that knight was slain by a knight invisible. -- CHAPTER XIII. How Balin and the damosel met with a knight which was in likewise slain, and how the damosel bled for the custom of a castle. -- CHAPTER XIV. How Balin met with that knight named Garlon at a feast, and there he slew him, to have his blood to heal therewith the son of his host. -- CHAPTER XV. How Balin fought with King Pellam, and how his sword brake, and how he gat a spear wherewith he smote the dolorous stroke. -- CHAPTER XVI. How Balin was delivered by Merlin, and saved a knight that would have slain himself for love. -- CHAPTER XVII. How that knight slew his love and a knight lying by her, and after, how he slew himself with his own sword, and how Balin rode toward a -- CHAPTER XVIII. How Balin met with his brother Balan, and how each of them slew other unknown, till they were wounded to death. -- CHAPTER XIX. How Merlin buried them both in one tomb, and of Balin's sword. -- BOOK III. -- CHAPTER I. How King Arthur took a wife, and wedded Guenever, daughter to Leodegrance, King of the Land of Cameliard, with whom he had the Round Table. -- CHAPTER II. How the Knights of the Round Table were ordained and their sieges blessed by the Bishop of Canterbury. | |
CHAPTER III. How a poor man riding upon a lean mare desired King Arthur to make his son knight. -- CHAPTER IV. How Sir Tor was known for son of King Pellinore, and how Gawaine was made knight. -- CHAPTER V. How at feast of the wedding of King Arthur to Guenever, a white hart came into the hall, and thirty couple hounds, and how a brachet -- CHAPTER VI. How Sir Gawaine rode for to fetch again the hart, and how two brethren fought each against other for the hart. -- CHAPTER VII How the hart was chased into a castle and there slain, and how Sir Gawaine slew a lady. -- CHAPTER VIII. How four knights fought against Gawaine and Gaheris, and how they were overcome, and their lives saved at request of four ladies. -- CHAPTER IX. How Sir Tor rode after the knight with the brachet, and of his adventure by the way. -- CHAPTER X. How Sir Tor found the brachet with a lady, and how a knight assailed him for the said brachet. -- CHAPTER XI. How Sir Tor overcame the knight, and how he lost his head at the request of a lady. -- CHAPTER XII. How King Pellinore rode after the lady and the knight that led her away, and how a lady desired help of him, and how he fought with two -- CHAPTER XIII. How King Pellinore gat the lady and brought her to Camelot to the court of King Arthur. -- CHAPTER XIV. How on the way he heard two knights, as he lay by night in a valley, and of their adventures. -- CHAPTER XV. How when he was come to Camelot he was sworn upon a book to tell the truth of his quest. -- BOOK IV. -- CHAPTER I. How Merlin was assotted and doted on one of the ladies of the lake, and how he was shut in a rock under a stone and there died. -- CHAPTER II. How five kings came into this land to war against King Arthur, and what counsel Arthur had against them. | |
CHAPTER III. How King Arthur had ado with them and overthrew them, and slew the five kings and made the remnant to flee. -- CHAPTER IV. How the battle was finished or he came, and how King Arthur founded an abbey where the battle was. -- CHAPTER V. How Sir Tor was made knight of the Round Table, and how Bagdemagus was displeased. -- CHAPTER VI. How King Arthur, King Uriens, and Sir Accolon of Gaul, chased an hart, and of their marvellous adventures. -- CHAPTER VII. How Arthur took upon him to fight to be delivered out of prison, and also for to deliver twenty knights that were in prison. -- CHAPTER VIII. How Accolon found himself by a well, and he took upon him to do battle against Arthur. -- CHAPTER IX. Of the battle between King Arthur and Accolon. -- CHAPTER X. How King Arthur's sword that he fought with brake, and how he recovered of Accolon his own sword Excalibur, and overcame his enemy. -- CHAPTER XI. How Accolon confessed the treason of Morgan le Fay, King Arthur's sister, and how she would have done slay him. -- CHAPTER XII. How Arthur accorded the two brethren, and delivered the twenty knights, and how Sir Accolon died. -- CHAPTER XIII. How Morgan would have slain Sir Uriens her husband, and how Sir Uwaine her son saved him. -- CHAPTER XIV. How Queen Morgan le Fay made great sorrow for the death of Accolon, and how she stole away the scabbard from Arthur. -- CHAPTER XV. How Morgan le Fay saved a knight that should have been drowned, and how King Arthur returned home again. -- CHAPTER XVI. How the Damosel of the Lake saved King Arthur from mantle that should have burnt him. -- CHAPTER XVII. How Sir Gawaine and Sir Uwaine met with twelve fair damosels, and how they complained on Sir Marhaus. -- CHAPTER XVIII. How Sir Marhaus jousted with Sir Gawaine and Sir Uwaine, and overthrew them both. | |
CHAPTER XIX. How Sir Marhaus, Sir Gawaine, and Sir Uwaine met three damosels, and each of them took one.[*1]. | |
Altri titoli varianti: | Morte d'Arthur |
Titolo autorizzato: | Morte Darthur |
ISBN: | 3-7364-1766-7 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910148991903321 |
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