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Mort is a word normally associated with death, and while Mort Street in Sydney’s Surry Hills is deadly, it was named after Thomas Sutcliffe Mort (1816-78) who arrived in 1838. He went on to become an auctioneer, woolbroker, and cheese maker.
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Come and join arthuriana after watching “Cursed”
You enjoyed “Cursed”?? You want to know more about King Arthur or jump in the King Arthur fandom and books and movies? And yet, the whole arthurian thing sort of looks like a mess because there are a tons of movies and books and THINGS??
Yes, there are a bunch of characters that are all different iteration than some vaguely (more or less vague) shaped character from some old more or less obscure text. Most arthurian books and movies take a lot of inspiration from Thomas Malory’s Morte d’Arthur, which is also based on previous texts. To look at a list of old texts (chronological order) where I put in bold the ones I consider the most engaging... click here on quick old texts downloads!
Also, for a WHO IS WHO?? here is a good resource.
The feeling of the show
If you enjoyed the feeling of the show I would absolutely recommend the BBC tv show Merlin (and you probably already know about it), and the miniseries The Mists of Avalon (it has the whole religious conflict thing). Other arthurian texts and movies usually don’t have this religious conflict unless inspired by Mists of Avalon, as most old texts have a mix of magic and Christianity which is not seen as conflict-inspiring.
And now for 3 novels/1 movie/ 1 tv shows I loved based on “Cursed”’s main characters:
Nimue’s focused
Here Lies Arthur (Philip Reeves): historical based, the lady of the lake and Percival are the protagonists (and I’d call them both non binary, but the novel never says it explicitly), evil Arthur. Merlin and Guinevere are also in it.
Avalon High (Meg Cabot): modern au, lady of the lake reincarnated, better than the movie
Mordred (William Campbell): Mordred and the lady of the lake are the protagonists, Merlin is a secondary character, Play/tragedy.
Movie: Merlin 1998 miniseries
Tv: Sadly, there is not a lot, but the last episode of The Boy Merlin has an interesting Nimue!
Arthur’s focused books
The Road to Avalon (Joan Wolf): historical based, Arthur is the protagonist alongside Morgana, Guinevere and Lancelot. Arthur/Morgana and Lancelot/Guinevere
The Once and Future King (White): this is one of the arthurian modern classics, with Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot as main characters.
Sword at Sunset (Sutcliff): Historial retellings of Arthur's conquest and ruling of Britain. Arthur and Guinevere are protagonists. LGBTQ themes (implied queer Arthur)
Movie: Camelot (1967) the musical, has an amazing Arthur (from The Once and Future King) finding ideas and inspiration to create a fair and just kingdom (it has also a great Guinevere and Lancelot)
Tv: Kaamelott, this French tv show starts as a parody, but the last three seasons are all about Arthur’s character development and will end up in a movie soon!
Morgana’s focused books
I am Morgan le Fay (Nancy Springer): The story of Morgana, her childhood and her path to becoming Arthur's main villain.
Morgana (Michel Rio): in French or Spanish or Italian. This novel has Morgana as a rational and complex enemy of Arthur, plus a bisexual Morgana with her lover Vivian
Idylls of the Queen (Phyllis Ann Karr): while this novel has Kay and Mordred as protagonists,
Movie: Mists of Avalon 2001 miniseries
Tv: The Legend of King Arthur (BBC), has an amazing Morgana as the sympathetic antagonist. Camelot Starz has also an amazing Morgana.
Lancelot’s focused books
Lancelot (Peter Vansittart): The story of the Roman Lancelot in a world which is becoming more and more distant from the Roman traditions. Lancelot is the main character, Gawain and Mordred as secondary characters, Welsh inspired, Lgbtq because of Lancelot and Mordred being attracted to each others.
The Once and Future King (White): this is one of the arthurian modern classics, with Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot as main characters.
Lancelot (Gwen Rowley): A Lancelot who is not in love with Guinevere??
Movie: Sword of Lancelot
Tv: The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
Gawain’s focused books
Gawain (Gwen Rowley): A fantasy novel based on Ragnelle and Gawain’s love story; Gawain starts as a bit of a jerk, but gets some character development!
Down the Long Wind (Gillian Bradshaw): a trilogy that starts with a first book from Gawain’s pov, mostly about his difficult relationship with his family. The third book is Guinevere’s pov.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A CLASSIC!)
Movie: Green Knight 2020, this movie is not out so Sire Gauvain et le Chevalier Vert (2004)
Tv: Camelot (Starz) has an interesting Gawain!
GENERAL RESOURCES
Arthurian list of everything (an excel file with all the books, old texts, movies, tv shows, music etc. I know of. Very big! Download it to use filters) - Download links for old texts are in the list
Books I’ve read and tagged by ship, lgbtq, character and theme
Quick old texts downloads
Favorite arthurian tv shows (in order of preference + explanation)
List of arthurian tv shows (with pics)
List of arthurian movies (with pics)
List of lists
The News tag on the blog
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Hi! Since you are taking questions and recommendations requests, I have one that I hope makes sense. I have always been incredibly fascinated by the history and literature surrounding King Arthur, but don't quite know where to start to learn more about it. Do you have any sort of condensed reading list (non-fiction and fiction alike are both welcome) for a beginner like me? Thanks a lot :)
Hello!
Well, clearly... there’s a lot to choose from here. One of my first recommendations would be Arthurnet, a searchable listserv, so you can browse that to your heart’s content as you find more specific questions. Another great online resource is the Robbins Library’s Camelot Project.
For medieval Arthurian literature, I’d recommend:
The Mabinogion. This is a gorgeous collection of tales and gives you a good look at the Welsh traditions of Arthur. In a similar vein, @fuckyeaharthuriana is currently doing a Welsh triad a day.
Le Morte d’Arthur, Thomas Malory. I’d probably choose this as the locus classicus of what most modern audiences will recognize as The Arthurian Legend. It’s written by a single author at the end of the Middle Ages, and synthesizes French and British traditions (to use somewhat anachronistic terms.) If you find a version with modernized spelling, the original is quite readable by English speakers today (between Chaucer and Shakespeare.)
If you want the first time that Arthur is identified as a king, specifically, that’s in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae. Someone will probably jump on this post to complain that I haven’t mentioned Marie de France, or Chrétien de Troyes. Marie is great, and Chrétien’s romances deserve their fame, but I wouldn’t recommend either as a starting point.
Among modern adaptations I’d recommend those of Rosemary Sutcliff, Mary Stewart, and of course T.H. White. The first two are set in post-Roman Britain; White’s masterpiece takes on Arthur’s many post-medieval legacies and Malory and Englishness and it makes me cry every time.
As for non-fiction, to the endless chagrin of my five-year-old (and ten-year-old, and twelve-year-old...) self, Arthur probably didn’t exist. There’s a part of me, of course, that still wants to believe in the man who loved his land and his friends and the king who will come again, but you’re not going to find reputable scholarship on Arthur-as-historical-king. That said, there’s a lot of great work being done by historians and archaeologists on the period when he would have/might have lived, and a lot of great work being done by literature scholars on the medieval corpus of texts.
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so like. say I did wanna ease myself into arthurian legend. wheremst would you personally recommend dipping my toes in first?
Boy Howdy!
I’ve given this some thought and the path I’m going to recommend might seem…roundabout but I want to: entice, educate, and elaborate *rolls up sleeves*
First, I would have you read Sword at Sunset by Rosmary Sutcliff. But Rachel! You say. SaS is a complex historical novel written as if Arthur had been a real person and there is certainly arthur™ content that is going to go over someone’s head who is not familiar with the myth! Perhaps, I say, sipping my English Breakfast and looking at you firmly over the lip of my spectacles. But the important things remain: A. it’s a fucking fantastic book. B. It merges the more romanticized and well known arch (ie: lancelot, Gwen, Mordred) with the lens of it’s original welsh roots, AND sets you up for a deep abiding love of the world that this story takes place in (which imo is lacking in other tellings because the setting takes such a backseat to the drama)
Now that you’ve fallen in love with this little diddy we move on to some more academic lit. Next up we have Le Morte d’Arthur or The Death of Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory. This is what I fondly refer to as “The Arthurian Bible” Malory sets himself up as this Arthurian Expert and puts down every goddamn story he’s ever heard about Arthur, Lancelot, Gawain, Gareth, Tristan, Knighty McKnight pants. This is the text Monty Python was making fun of. This is the text everyone who writes Arthur has read. It’s got it’s moments but it’s a slog through repetitive (often conflicting lmao) stories. But I would be remiss if I didn’t say it was required reading because it is.
Ok, that was a journey, now you need a little pick me up? Non? Let us escape these French retellings and take a little trip over the Atlantic to the good ol’ US of A. Next stop The Once and Future King by T. H. White. This is another one that anyone who’s anyone in the athur community has read. You’ve seen Sword in the Stone? Yep it’s that. And yes Merlin really does turn Arthur into a squirrel. White was writing an Arthur for a country that had just gone through WWII and he plays heavily with the chivalric themes and ideas that might does not make right. You will appreciate more deeply how American this book is having read these others first and how the changes White makes reflect a desire to understand why we consider heroes…heroes.
Ok, back to some history for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. This is a fun little jaunt back in time (written around the time of the Canterbury Tales) and is a great peek at the humor and just general shenanigans this universe of literature can get up to. I have multiple translations of this but I recommend the Simon Armitage version because his modern english translation tried very hard to keep the tone and pace of the original text so that the experience isn’t some dry literal word for word mumbo jumbo (though admittedly it is fun to read the version I have where the Middle English is placed next to the translation so that you can see how ME just sounds like German spoken by someone with an incredibly awful Scottish accent).
Lastly in my Arthurian Lit Speed Run (patent pending) we have The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Caveat! Bradley did some shifty pedophilia stuff both in this book and real life and you *need* to know that going in. This book SCREAMS 70′s feminism and neo-paganism but it’s one of the few in the totally unofficial arthur canon that is told from the perspective of the women involved. She also fucks around with the myth in an interesting way in my opinion.
Overachiever extra credit:
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Mabinogion
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
The Story of King Arthur and his Knights by Howard Pyle
*looks up from clipboard* So tell me, have you heard the good word of our king once and king to be?
#wow ok info dump but you opened the can!!!#arthurian literature#sword at sunset#the once and future king#mists of avalon#the death of arthur#arthurian lit#booklr#king arthur#my arthur trash#thevajunglebook
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tagged by @harry-leroy in the 20 for 2020 book/goal list for the year - i really do need to come up with a tbr list for the year, so thank you!
rules, for those of you playing along at home: come up with 20 books to read, or 20 goals you want to accomplish, or a mix of both, for 2020. i’m going for a 15/5 split, personally. under a cut because this is going to be long and none of y’all deserve that.
books: (5 fluff’n’nonsense, 5 What The Fuck You Should Have Read These Long Ago, 5 “so you want to be a medievalist”)
the song of achilles (madeline miller) (supposed to be a staple of gay culture? clearly i have been missing out)
return of the thief (megan whalen turner; sixth and last of the queen’s thief series) (coming out in august; i already know i’m going to cry like a baby but it’s fiiine)
the shining company (rosemary sutcliff) (i had a copy as a kid and then, like an idiot, took it to a book exchange. the book i got in return was so shitty, you have no idea)
six of crows/crooked kingdom (leigh bardugo) (if i get to the end of the library ebook waitlist before the end of the year, anyway ://)
emma (jane austen) (for once in my life i will read an austen before i watch it)
the divine comedy (dante)
love’s labour’s lost (shakespeare)
picture of dorian gray (oscar wilde)
le morte d’arthur (thomas malory)
metamorphoses/golden ass (apuleius) (round two motherfucker)
the ulster cycle
the mabinogion (fuck yeah wales!)
origins and development of the english language (john algeo) and also introduction to old english (peter s. baker) (i’ll have to read sections for class but the whole thing will be good for me) (dm me if you want me to rant for like five hours about this goddamn class)
beowulf (trans. seamus heaney and also ideally in the original oe) (specifically heaney’s, for the same reasons as 13)
vespers at st. mark’s (james moore) (this was highly suggested for my med/ren music final paper last semester, and i never read it, and wrote a very bad paper. it should say something about my love for this course that i’m willing to tackle my mountains of guilt to read it now.)
shit i need to work on:
i’d like to finish a writing project once a month. even if i don’t publish it, i’m tired of having hundreds of wips and never finishing anything.
by the end of the 2020 fall semester, figure out if i want to continue on a physics track or switch all the way to medieval studies
learn to run through a tackle instead of freezing on contact, also learning to make better tackles myself so i’m not useless during the next fifteens season
setting boundaries and expressing opinions. (also, not eating meals with people i don’t like. why do i keep letting this happen?)
the banner project i’ve been wanting to start for months. right now i’m in the drafting stage; hopefully i can order materials and get through it over this semester now that i’m only taking 4 classes.
i don’t really like tagging people, but i do love reading through these when other people do them, so if you’ve already got half a list in your head, please do the rest and @ me so i can creep on it
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1847 Thomas Sutcliffe Mort & Wife Theresa C.
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Statue of Thomas Sutcliffe Mort, Macquarie Place, Sydney, c 1908.
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Mais uma vez a lenda de Arthur é adaptada para o cinema, agora pelo olhar de Guy Ritchie. Confesso que a única coisa que gosto do diretor é Jogos, Trapaças e Dois Canos Fumegantes e que fiquei muito decepcionada com o seu Sherlock Holmes, mas minha obsessão pela história não me deixará fora do cinema.
Abaixo, uma “lista básica” de livros sobre o tema. Uma lista mais completa pode ser encontrada no site Guine Lance.
A Demanda do Santo Graal - Heitor Megale (Org.)
A Demanda do Santo Graal - Augusto Magne, S. J.
Lendas do Rei Artur - James Riordan
O Rei Artur (Coleção Mitos - Deuses - Mistérios) - Geoffrey Ashe
O Rei Artur, e os Cavaleiros da Távola Redonda - Rosalind Kerven
A Espada Excalibur (O rei Artur e os Cavaleiros da Távola Redonda #1) - Rosemary Sutcliff
Em Busca do Santo Graal (O rei Artur e os Cavaleiros da Távola Redonda #2) - Rosemary Sutcliff
A Morte do Rei Artur (O rei Artur e os Cavaleiros da Távola Redonda #3) - Rosemary Sutcliff
As Brumas de Avalon - A Senhora da Magia - Marion Zimmer Bradley
As Brumas de Avalon - A Grande Rainha - Marion Zimmer Bradley
As Brumas de Avalon - O Gamo-Rei - Marion Zimmer Bradley
As Brumas de Avalon - O Prisioneiro da Árvore - Marion Zimmer Bradley
A Carverna de Cristal - Mary Stewart
As Colinas Ocas - Mary Stewart
O Último Encantamento - Mary Stewart
A Filha da Primavera - Persia Woolley
A Rainha do Verão - Persia Woolley
O Outono da Lenda - Persia Woolley
A Morte do Rei Artur - Anônimo
Romances da Távola Redonda - Chrétien de Troyes
Sir Gawain: Cavaleiro da Távola Redonda - Yumi Suzuki
A Morte de Artur (Volume 1) - Sir Thomas Malory
A Morte de Artur (Volume 2) - Sir Thomas Malory
Lancelote: O Cavaleiro da Carreta - Chrétien de Troyes
Tristão e Isolda - Maria do Anjo B. Figueiredo
O Reinado de Arthur: Da História à Lenda - Christopher Gidlow
Aventuras da Távola Redonda: Estórias Medievais do Rei Artur e seus Cavaleiros - Antonio L. Furtado
Os Mistérios do Rei Artur - Elizabeth Jenkins
As Crônicas de Artur: O Rei do Inverno - Bernard Cornwell
As Crônicas de Artur:O Inimigo de Deus - Bernard Cornwell
As Crônicas de Artur: Excalibur - Bernard Cornwell
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I went through your links and I couldn’t find it (though there’s a good chance I missed it) but do you have like a beginner’s guide to Arthurian legends? I have like a basic knowledge from like pop culture, a few movies, a wiki hole I went down at work a few weeks ago, but there’s just so much stuff I don’t know where to start.
My links are a bit of a mess, and I think I put some beginner guides around that I cannot even find myself, haha.
I remember that when I started reading arthuriana I focused only on one character. I think that was easier for me because I was really obsessed with him (Mordred, of course!), and I think there are different routes to approach arthuriana (also, be mindful that for me, approaching arthuriana = hobby =/= academic study!).
1) Option one is to follow a character of choice. In this case feel free to ask for more character specific recs, otherwise I have here a list of books I’ve read tagged by main characters and secondary characters. The Arthurian list of everything also has old texts (pre 1850) tagged by character! I think for me this was the easy route because I ended up absorbing a lot of other arthurian stuff in my desperate quest for Mordred content.
2) Option 2 is following the chronological order for old texts (main texts)! You can click on the arthurian list of everything where I added both characters, dates and download links for old texts, or you can check this post which has less texts but I put in bold my favorite ones (they also have download links)!
Personally, when I started I did a mix of option 1 and option 3, which is mixing up texts, just because I love novels and I really wanted to mix up my old texts with some modern novels and movies/tv shows.
3) Option 3 is mixing it up! Let me explain a bit better!
I have here the old “How to start arthuriana” post with mixed up old and new texts (here is another “How to start”). To summarize it, I do think that the main “old texts” that people cite and use as references are History of the Kings of Britain (Geoffrey of Monmouth), Four Romances (Chrétien de Troyes) and Le Morte d'Arthur Volume 1 + Volume 2 (Thomas Malory) (with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Wedding of sir Gawain and dame Ragnell if you are interested in Gawain).
Mixing them up with good novels for me was a plus, because I love seeing how stories are re-imagined. What helped me at the beginning was reading novels that encompass the whole of Arthur’s life, from his birth to his death, adding various re-interpretations within. This ended up putting in my mind a vague order of the main arthurian themes and elements that are used and re-used. Some examples are:
Sword at Sunset (Sutcliff), if you like historical novels
The Once and Future King (White)
Guinevere trilogy by Persia Woolley
Merlin trilogy by Mary Stewart + The Wicked Day (Mary Stewart)
The Pendragon (Catherine Christian)
Firelord (Godwin)
Warlord Chronicles (Bernard Cornwell), also historical
Any of Mike Ashley’s short stories collections
Some character specific good novels:
Arthur: Sword at Sunset (Sutcliff) or The Great Captains (Treece) which is Welsh inspired
Morgana: I am Morgan le Fay (Springer) or Morgana (Rio)
Guinevere: Persia Woolley’s trilogy or Queen of Camelot (McKenzie)
Bedivere: The Pendragon (Catherine Christian)
Kay: Exiled from Camelot (Baldry) and Idylls of the Queen (Karr)
Gawain: Down the Long Wind (Bradshaw)
Mordred: Idylls of the Queen (Karr) or The Winter Prince (Wein)
Lancelot: Guinevere novels tend to have good Lancelot, otherwise there’s Vansittart’s Lancelot or Lancelot by Gwen Rowley
Ragnelle: Gawain (Gwen Rowley)
Percival: Corbenic (Fisher)
Lady of the Lake: Here Lies Arthur (Reeves) or The Book of Mordred (Velde)
Merlin: Mary Stewart’s trilogy
Agravaine: Camelot’s Blood (Zettel)
Galahad: Blessed Bastard (Lehman) but it is hard to find!
Regarding tv shows and movies, I have written here a list of arthurian tv shows in order of my personal preference, with small explanation to why, but I do think for someone who is diving into arthuriana the classic tv shows and movies are:
The Legend of King Arthur (BBC) tv show
Camelot (musical, any version)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Excalibur (1981)
The Sword in the Stone (Disney)
The Knights of the Round Table (50s movie)
Merlin (1998) miniseries
The Mists of Avalon miniseries
Plus, here is a list of movies divided by character and a list of tv shows divided by character.
Other nice and fun arthurian things to start are:
This amazingly funny Legends summarized video
For any “Who is who???” Bruce’s dictionary is an amazing resource
I hope this helps! :D
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