The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
By Howard Pyle
A timeless retelling of the legends of King Arthur, Merlin, Excalibur, and the Knights of the Round Table.
Table of Contents
(in the shape of a long letter) in the _Spectator_ of January 1870 he asked to reprint it, and published it with the collected Idylls. "For years, while his boys were at school an...
The Finding of Merlin--The Fight of the Dragons--The Giants' Dance--The Prophecies of Merlin and the Birth of Arthur--Uther attacks the Saxons--The Death of Uther...
Merlin's Advice to the Archbishop--The Miracle of the Sword and Stone--The Coronation of King Arthur--The Opposition of the Six Kings--The Sword Excalibur--The Defeat of the Six Ki...
The Adventure of the Questing Beast--The Siege of York--The Battles of Celidon Forest and Badon Hill--King Arthur drives the Saxons from the Realm--The Embassy from Rome--The King ...
King Arthur conquers Ireland and Norway--Slays the Giant of St. Michael's Mount and conquers Gaul--King Ryence's Insolent Message--The Damsel and the Sword--The Lady of the Lake--T...
Sir Balin kills Sir Lancear--The Sullen Knight--The Knight Invisible is killed--Sir Balin smites the Dolorous Stroke, and fights with his brother Sir Balan...
The Marriage of King Arthur and Guinevere--The Coronation of the Queen--The Founding of the Round Table--The Quest of the White Hart--The Adventures of Sir Gawain--The Quest of the...
King Arthur and Sir Accolon of Gaul are entrapped by Sir Damas--They fight each other through Enchantment of Queen Morgan le Fay--Sir Damas is compelled to surrender all his Lands ...
A Second Embassy from Rome--King Arthur's Answer--The Emperor assembles his Armies--King Arthur slays the Emperor--Sir Gawain and Sir Prianius--The Lombards are defeated--King Arth...
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot--He and his Cousin Sir Lionel set forth--The Four Witch-Queens--King Bagdemagus--Sir Lancelot slays Sir Turquine and delivers his Captive Knights--Th...
Beaumains is made a Kitchen Page by Sir Key--He claims the Adventure of the Damsel Linet--He fights with Sir Lancelot and is knighted by him in his True Name of Gareth--Is flouted ...
The Adventures of Sir Tristram--His Stepmother--He is knighted--Fights with Sir Marhaus--Sir Palomedes and La Belle Isault--Sir Bleoberis and Sir Segwarides--Sir Tristram's Quest--...
Merlin is bewitched by a Damsel of the Lady of the Lake--Galahad knighted by Sir Lancelot--The Perilous Seat--The Marvellous Sword--Sir Galahad in the Perilous Seat--The Sangreal--...
The Queen quarrels with Sir Lancelot--She is accused of Murder--Her Champion proves her innocence--The Tourney at Camelot--Sir Lancelot in the Tourney--Sir Baldwin the Knight-Hermi...
Sir Lancelot attacked by Sir Agravaine, Sir Modred, and thirteen other Knights--He slays them all but Sir Modred--He leaves the Court--Sir Modred accuses him to the King--The Queen...
_The Prophecies of Merlin, and the Birth of Arthur_ King Vortigern the usurper sat upon his throne in London, when, suddenly, upon a certain day, ran in a breathless messenger, an...
_The Miracle of the Sword and Stone, and the Coronation of King Arthur--The Sword Excalilur--The War with the Eleven Kings_ Now Arthur the prince had all this time been nourished ...
_The Adventure of the Questing Beast--King Arthur drives the Saxons from the Realm--The Battles of Celidon Forest and Badon Hill_ Anon, thereafter, came word to King Arthur that R...
_King Arthur Conquers Ireland and Norway, Slays the Giant of St. Michael's Mount, and Conquers Gaul--The Adventures of Sir Balin_ The land of Britain being now in peace, and many ...
_Sir Balin Smites the Dolorous Stroke, and Fights with his Brother, Sir Balan_ Now there was a knight at the court more envious than the others of Sir Balin, for he counted himsel...
_The Marriage of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere, and the Founding of the Round Table--The Adventure of the Hart and Hound_ It befell upon a certain day, that King Arthur said to ...
_King Arthur and Sir Accolon of Gaul_ Being now happily married, King Arthur for a season took his pleasure, with great tournaments, and jousts, and huntings. So once upon a time ...
_King Arthur conquers Rome, and is crowned Emperor_ And now again the second time there came ambassadors from Lucius Tiberius, Emperor of Rome, demanding, under pain of war, tribu...
_The Adventures of Sir Lancelot du Lake_ Then, at the following Pentecost, was held a feast of the Round Table at Caerleon, with high splendour; and all the knights thereof resort...
_Adventures of Sir Beaumains or Sir Gareth_ Again King Arthur held the Feast of Pentecost, with all the Table Round, and after his custom sat in the banquet hall, before beginning...
_The Adventures of Sir Tristram of Lyonesse_ Again King Arthur held high festival at Caerleon, at Pentecost, and gathered round him all the fellowship of the Round Table, and so, ...
_The Quest of the Sangreal, and the Adventures of Sir Percival, Sir Bors, and Sir Galahad_ After these things, Merlin fell into a dotage of love for a damsel of the Lady of the La...
_Sir Lancelot and the Fair Maid of Astolat_ Now after the quest of the Sangreal was fulfilled and all the knights who were left alive were come again to the Round Table, there was...
_The War between King Arthur and Sir Lancelot and the Death of King Arthur_ Within a while thereafter was a jousting at the court, wherein Sir Lancelot won the prize. And two of t...