NYC XYZ wrote:
> Is there a list somewhere of all the Knights of The Round Table?
> Particularly if it matches them with their associated attributes or
> "claim to fame" -- e.g., Galahad was "pure," Lancelot (sometimes the
> same as Galahad, other times his father) is "best," etc.
> So far, I've only found these links --
> http://arthurpendragon.ukonline.co.uk/artfaq.html#hommanyknights,
and
> http://www.bootlegbooks.com/Reference/PhraseAndFable/data/715.html
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> but they don't fit the bill. I really need to know who is known for
> what in the Arthurian Legends.
Do you really mean "Arthurian Legends" (i.e., obscure works written in
Old Irish, Old and Middle Welsh, and Old Breton)? Or do you mean
"Arthurian Literature" (for most of the Arthurian material that most of
us are familiar with is conscious literary art by professional writers).
There are as many lists as there are versions of the stories. Indeed,
medieval style being what it was, most versions include a list somewhere
in the text (and it is usually contradicted by the actual stories in the
text).
The most interesting one is probably in one of Charles Williams'
Arthurian poems (/not/ in the two main collections, but to be found in
Dodds' expanded edition).
--
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
-- Charles Williams. "Judgement at Chelmsford"
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