Arthurian legend links
Links to authoritative or interesting Arthurian websites
An extensive Arthurian legend resource (also about Classical, Norse, and Celtic mythology in general) can be found at Timeless Myths: "... a website containing a collection of myths and legends, from ancient Greece and Rome, and from frozen Norse lands and the magical Celtic realms. Or follow the adventures of Arthur and his unconquerable knights." The author, Jimmy Joe, covers a diverse range of Arthurian legend topics - the Vulgate Cycle, the War Against Rome, and many more. An excellent website.
'Legends' is Paula Kate Marmor's "personal journey through the worlds of Robin Hood, King Arthur, D'Artagnan, and other swashbuckling characters of balladry, fiction, and film, from the shores of Avalon to the dungeons of Zenda." The Arthurian section - King Arthur & the Matter of Britain - is a thoroughly annotated guide to Arthurian resources on the World Wide Web.
One of the best-researched on Sir Thomas Malory's 'Le Morte d'Arthur' is Lugodoc's Guide to Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. The brief and expanded summaries of Caxton's printed version of Le Morte d'Arthur on Arthurian Legend are largely derived from Lugodoc's comprehensive guide. I'm indebted to him not only for his excellent research and entertainingly cryptic presentation of Malory's book but also for his generosity in allowing parts of his work to be included here.
Jim Donaldson's Celtic Twilight includes an extensive repository of Arthurian and Celtic material, originally dedicated to the Arthurian legends, but growing to embrace the surrounding myths and stories and the vast range of Celtic culture.
Thomas Green's comprehensive Arthurian Resources site provides an Arthurian Links page which includes links to online bibliographies and reference works, also with sections devoted to the Pre-Galfridian Arthur and Myrddin/Merlin.
Found recently: Robert Vermaat's lively, informative, and up-to-date website at Vortigern Studies, dedicated to the study of the period between the Roman occupation of Britain and the Early Middle Ages, with a What's New in the Arthurian Collection page in the Faces of Arthur section.
For a different and interesting slant on King Arthur and Arthurian Legend in popular movies, try The Stuff of Future Memory. This website contains a résumé of a Masters Research Paper by Iman Keuchenius. Click 'Legends' to read specifically about the Vulgate Cycle and how it relates to Thomas Malory's 'Le Morte d'Arthur'. Iman's main Arthurian Legend hero appears to be Lancelot, who here looms larger than King Arthur himself.
King Arthur: a Man for the Ages (apparently voted Best of the Web by the BBC in October 2000) contains - or provides links to - collections of explorations on the history and legends of King Arthur, including people, places, books and other media, and e-commerce site selling swords, armour, and jewellery.
Dee Finney's excellent links page, King Arthur and the Holy Grail, lists hundreds of websites covering a wide range of King Arthur and Grail-related topics, books, places, and much more.
King Arthur Books is an extensively researched online source for books about King Arthur and medieval times. Founded by Bill Brauker, who has travelled extensively in England and has a great love for the Arthurian stories, King Arthur Books aims to be an entertaining and informative destination for lovers of Arthurian literature.
Paul Gadzikowski at Arthur, King of Time and Space publishes an Arthurian legend cartoon every day at or about midnight GMT (barring accidents). Amazing but true - go see for yourself for proof of the multi-dimensional nature of the Arthurian legend (see also Camelot In Four Colors).
A very attractive and intriguing website is Forrester Roberts, presenting Arthurian myths as parables that illustrate life's challenges. Forrester's interest is in symbolic motivation: "The legends that gathered around him [Arthur] filled a treasure house with poetry, music and artistic inspiration. Even today he continues to inspire..."
The Open Directory Project, DMOZ, is one of the most highly-regarded directories on the web and provides a category specific to Arthurian Legend. DMOZ is the most widely distributed database of Web content classified by humans - quote: "Just as the Oxford English Dictionary became the definitive word on words through the efforts of a volunteers, the Open Directory follows in its footsteps to become the definitive catalog of the Web."
A medieval version of Yahoo? NetSERF is "The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources" - a specialised search engine and online directory with 17 categories of resources for all things medieval (including a Medieval Glossary).
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