Knights of the Round Table, the Glossary
The Knights of the Round Table (Marchogion y Ford Gron, Marghekyon an Moos Krenn, Marc'hegien an Daol Grenn) are the legendary knights of the fellowship of King Arthur that first appeared in the Matter of Britain literature in the mid-12th century.[1]
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257 relations: Accolon, Adetomiwa Edun, Agravain, Alliterative Morte Arthure, Anguish of Ireland, Annales Cambriae, Archbishop of Canterbury, Article (grammar), Astolat, Auvergne, Babylon, Battle of Badon, Battle of Camlann, Béroul, Bedegraine, Bedivere, Belinus, Blanchefleur, Bledri ap Cydifor, Bors, Brân the Blessed, Brocéliande, Brunor, Budic II of Brittany, Byzantine Empire, Cadoc, Cador, Caerleon, Caernarfon, Cameliard, Camelot, Caradoc, Celtic Christianity, Chivalric romance, Chrétien de Troyes, Claudas, Clemence Housman, Cligès, Clydno Eidyn, Constantine (Briton), Constantinople, Corbenic, Cornwall, County of Saintonge, Culhwch and Olwen, Cynon ap Clydno, Dagonet, Daniel von dem blühenden Tal, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dôn, ... Expand index (207 more) »
Accolon
Accolon is a character in Arthurian legends where he is a lover of Morgan le Fay who is killed by King Arthur in a duel during the plot involving the sword Excalibur. Knights of the Round Table and Accolon are fictional knights.
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Adetomiwa Edun
Babatunde Adetomiwa Stafford "Tomiwa" Edun, (born 1985)Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage 2003, vol.
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Agravain
Agravain is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, whose first known appearance is in the works of Chrétien de Troyes.
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Alliterative Morte Arthure
The Alliterative Morte Arthure is a 4346-line Middle English alliterative poem, retelling the latter part of the legend of King Arthur.
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Anguish of Ireland
King Anguish of Ireland (Ing o Iwerddon) is a mythological character in the stories of King Arthur.
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Annales Cambriae
The (Latin for Annals of Wales) is the title given to a complex of Latin chronicles compiled or derived from diverse sources at St David's in Dyfed, Wales.
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Archbishop of Canterbury
The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.
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Article (grammar)
In grammar, an article is any member of a class of dedicated words that are used with noun phrases to mark the identifiability of the referents of the noun phrases.
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Astolat
Astolat (French: Escalot) is a legendary castle and town of Great Britain named in Arthurian legends.
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Auvergne
Auvergne (Auvèrnhe or Auvèrnha) is a cultural region in central France.
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Babylon
Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad.
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Battle of Badon
The Battle of Badon, also known as the Battle of Mons Badonicus, was purportedly fought between Britons and Anglo-Saxons in Post-Roman Britain during the late 5th or early 6th century.
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Battle of Camlann
The Battle of Camlann (Gwaith Camlan or Brwydr Camlan) is the legendary final battle of King Arthur, in which Arthur either died or was fatally wounded while fighting either alongside or against Mordred, who also perished.
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Béroul
Béroul (or Beroul; Norman Berox) was a Norman or Breton poet of the mid-to-late 12th century.
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Bedegraine
Bedegraine is a location featured in some tellings of the Arthurian legend.
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Bedivere
Bedivere (or; Bedwyr; Beduerus; Bédoier, also Bedevere and other spellings) is one of the earliest characters to be featured in the legend of King Arthur, originally described in several Welsh texts as the one-handed great warrior named Bedwyr Bedrydant.
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Belinus
Belinus the Great was a legendary king of the Britons, as recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth.
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Blanchefleur
Blanchefleur ("white flower", also Blancheflor, Blancheflour, Blanziflor) is the name of a number of characters in literature of the High Middle Ages.
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Bledri ap Cydifor
Bledri ap Cydifor (fl. 1116–1130), sometimes written Bleddri, was a Welsh chieftain who ruled Dyfed.
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Bors
Bors (Bohort) is the name of two knights in Arthurian legend, an elder and a younger.
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Brân the Blessed
Brân the Blessed (Bendigeidfran or Brân Fendigaidd, literally "Blessed Crow") is a giant and king of Britain in Welsh mythology.
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Brocéliande
Brocéliande, earlier known as Brécheliant and Brécilien, is a legendary enchanted forest that had a reputation in the medieval European imagination as a place of magic and mystery.
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Brunor
Brunor, Breunor, Branor or Brunoro are various forms of a name given to several different characters in the works of the Tristan tradition of Arthurian legend.
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Budic II of Brittany
Budic II (Budicius; Budig or Buddig), formerly known as Budick, was a king of Cornouaille in Brittany in the late 5th and early 6th centuries.
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Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Cadoc
Saint Cadoc or Cadog (Cadocus; also Modern Welsh: Catawg or Catwg; born or before) was a 5th–6th-century Abbot of Llancarfan, near Cowbridge in Glamorgan, Wales, a monastery famous from the era of the British church as a centre of learning, where Illtud spent the first period of his religious life under Cadoc's tutelage.
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Cador
Cador (Cadorius) is a legendary Duke of Cornwall, known chiefly through Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudohistorical Historia Regum Britanniae and previous manuscript sources such as the Life of Carantoc.
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Caerleon
Caerleon (Caerllion) is a town and community in Newport, Wales.
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Caernarfon
Caernarfon is a royal town, community and port in Gwynedd, Wales.
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Cameliard
In the chivalric romance prose works in the legend of King Arthur, Cameliard (various French and other spellings include Camelide, Camiliard, Carmalide, Carmelide, Carmelyde, Charmelide, Tamalide, Tamelide, and Tarmelide) is the kingdom of the young Princess Guinevere, ruled by her father, King Leodegrance.
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Camelot
Camelot is a legendary castle and court associated with King Arthur.
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Caradoc
Caradoc Vreichvras (Modern Caradog Freichfras) was a semi-legendary ancestor to the kings of Gwent.
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Celtic Christianity
Celtic Christianity is a form of Christianity that was common, or held to be common, across the Celtic-speaking world during the Early Middle Ages.
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Chivalric romance
As a literary genre, the chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the noble courts of high medieval and early modern Europe.
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Chrétien de Troyes
Chrétien de Troyes (Crestien de Troies; 1160–1191) was a French poet and trouvère known for his writing on Arthurian subjects such as Gawain, Lancelot, Perceval and the Holy Grail.
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Claudas
King Claudas is a fictional king who is an opponent to King Arthur, Lancelot, and Bors in Arthurian literature.
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Clemence Housman
Clemence Annie Housman (23 November 1861 – 6 December 1955) was an author, illustrator and activist in the women's suffrage movement.
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Cligès
Cligès (also Cligés) is a poem by the medieval French poet Chrétien de Troyes, dating from around 1176.
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Clydno Eidyn
Clydno Eidyn was a ruler of Eidyn, the district around modern Edinburgh, in the 6th century.
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Constantine (Briton)
Constantine (Cystennin, fl. 520–523) was a 6th-century king of Dumnonia in sub-Roman Britain, who was remembered in later British tradition as a legendary King of Britain.
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Constantinople
Constantinople (see other names) became the capital of the Roman Empire during the reign of Constantine the Great in 330.
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Corbenic
Corbenic (Carbonek, Corbin) is the name of the Grail castle, the edifice housing the Holy Grail in Arthurian legend.
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Cornwall
Cornwall (Kernow;; or) is a ceremonial county in South West England.
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County of Saintonge
The County of Saintonge, historically spelled Xaintonge and Xainctonge, is a former province of France located on the west central Atlantic coast.
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Culhwch and Olwen
Culhwch and Olwen (Culhwch ac Olwen) is a Welsh tale that survives in only two manuscripts about a hero connected with Arthur and his warriors: a complete version in the Red Book of Hergest,, and a fragmented version in the White Book of Rhydderch,.
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Cynon ap Clydno
Cynon ap Clydno or in some translations KynonIn her translation of The Mabinogion, Guest uses the spelling Kynon, but in the notes to her translation she acknowledges the character as Cynon ap Clydno or Cynan was an Arthurian hero from Welsh mythology. Knights of the Round Table and Cynon ap Clydno are Arthurian legend.
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Dagonet
Dagonet (also known as Daguenet, Daguenes, Daguenez, Danguenes, and other spellings) is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend.
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Daniel von dem blühenden Tal
Daniel von dem blühenden Tal (Daniel of the Flowering Valley) is an Arthurian romance composed around 1220 by the Middle High German poet Der Stricker,Gürttler, Karin R. (1991).
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was an English poet, illustrator, painter, translator, and member of the Rossetti family.
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Dôn
Dôn is an ancestor figure in Welsh legend and literature.
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Dinadan
Dinadan is a Cornish knight of the Round Table in the Arthurian legend's chivalric romance tradition of the Prose ''Tristan'' and its adaptations, including a part of Le Morte d'Arthur.
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Diu Crône
Diu Crône (The Crown) is a Middle High German poem of about 30,000 lines treating of King Arthur and the Matter of Britain, dating from around the 1220s and attributed to the epic poet Heinrich von dem Türlin.
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Domitius Alexander
Lucius Domitius Alexander (died 310), probably born in Phrygia, was vicarius of Africa when Emperor Maxentius ordered him to send his son as hostage to Rome.
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Duke of Clarence
Duke of Clarence was a substantive title created three times in the Peerage of England.
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Edern ap Nudd
Edern ap Nudd (Hiderus; Old Yder or Ydier) was a knight of the Round Table in Arthur's court in early Arthurian tradition.
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Edward Burne-Jones
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet, (28 August, 183317 June, 1898) was an English painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter.
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Edward III of England
Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377), also known as Edward of Windsor before his accession, was King of England from January 1327 until his death in 1377.
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Eilhart von Oberge
Eilhart von Oberge was a German poet of the late 12th century.
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Elaine (legend)
Elaine is a name shared by several female characters in Arthurian legend, where they can also appear under different names depending on the source.
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Elaine of Corbenic
Elaine (Helaine, Oisine) or Elizabeth (Eliabel, Elizabel, Elizabet, Heliabel, Helizabel), also known as Amite (Amide, Amides, Anite, Aude, Enite), and identified as the "Grail Maiden" or the "Grail Bearer",Arthurian Women.
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Elucidation
The Elucidation is an anonymous Old French poem of the early 13th century, which was written to serve as a prologue to Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, le Conte du Graal.
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Englynion y Beddau
The Englynion y Beddau (The Stanzas or Verses of the Graves) is a Middle Welsh verse catalogue listing the resting places (beddau) of legendary heroes.
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Enide
Enide (Enid) is a character in Arthurian romance.
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Erec (poem)
Erec (also Erek, Ereck) is a Middle High German poem written in rhyming couplets by Hartmann von Aue.
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Erec and Enide
Erec and Enide (Érec et Énide) is the first of Chrétien de Troyes' five romance poems, completed around 1170.
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Excalibur
Excalibur is the mythical sword of King Arthur that may possess magical powers or be associated with the rightful sovereignty of Britain. Knights of the Round Table and Excalibur are Arthurian legend.
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A background actor or extra is a performer in a film, television show, stage, musical, opera, or ballet production who appears in a nonspeaking or nonsinging (silent) capacity, usually in the background (for example, in an audience or busy street scene).
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Feirefiz
Feirefiz (also Feirefis, Feirafiz, Ferafiz, Firafiz) is a character in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Arthurian poem Parzival.
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Ferdinand Lot
Ferdinand Victor Henri Lot (Le Plessis Piquet, 20 September 1866 – Fontenay-aux-Roses, 20 July 1952) was a French historian and medievalist.
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Fisher King
The Fisher King is a figure in Arthurian legend, the last in a long line of British kings tasked with guarding the Holy Grail.
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Franks
Aristocratic Frankish burial items from the Merovingian dynasty The Franks (Franci or gens Francorum;; Francs.) were a western European people during the Roman Empire and Middle Ages.
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Gaheris
Gaheris (Old French: Gaheriet, Gaheriés, Guerrehes, etc.) is a Knight of the Round Table in the chivalric romance tradition of Arthurian legend. A nephew of King Arthur, Gaheris is the third son of Arthur's sister or half-sister Morgause and her husband Lot, King of Orkney and Lothian. He is the younger brother of Gawain and Agravain, the older brother of Gareth, and half-brother of Mordred.
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Galahad
Galahad, sometimes referred to as Galeas or Galath, among other versions of his name, is a knight of King Arthur's Round Table and one of the three achievers of the Holy Grail in Arthurian legend.
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Galehaut
Galehaut (or Galahat, Galehot, Gallehaut, Galhault, Galetto, et al.) is a half-giant knight and sovereign prince in Arthurian legend.
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Galilee
Galilee (hagGālīl; Galilaea; al-jalīl) is a region located in northern Israel and southern Lebanon.
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Gareth
Gareth (Old French: Guerehet, Guerrehet) is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend.
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Gaul
Gaul (Gallia) was a region of Western Europe first clearly described by the Romans, encompassing present-day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, and Northern Italy.
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Gawain
Gawain, also known in many other forms and spellings, is a character in Arthurian legend, in which he is King Arthur's nephew and one of the premier Knights of the Round Table.
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Geraint
Geraint is a character from Welsh folklore and Arthurian legend, a valiant warrior possibly related to the historical Geraint, an early 8th-century king of Dumnonia.
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Gesta Regum Anglorum
The (Latin for "Deeds of the Kings of the English"), originally titled ("On the Deeds of the Kings of the English") and also anglicized as or, is an early-12th-century history of the kings of England by William of Malmesbury.
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Gildas
Gildas (English pronunciation:, Breton: Gweltaz) — also known as Gildas Badonicus, Gildas fab Caw (in Middle Welsh texts and antiquarian works) and Gildas Sapiens (Gildas the Wise) — was a 6th-century British monk best known for his scathing religious polemic, which recounts the history of the Britons before and during the coming of the Saxons. Knights of the Round Table and Gildas are Arthurian legend.
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Gilfaethwy
In Welsh mythology, Gilfaethwy was a son of the goddess Dôn and brother of Gwydion and Arianrhod in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi.
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Gingalain
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Glastonbury Tor
Glastonbury Tor is a tor near Glastonbury in the English county of Somerset, topped by the roofless St Michael's Tower, a Grade I listed building.
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Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr
Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr ("Brave Grey Mighty Grasp") is a hero, warrior, and porter in tradition and Arthurian mythology, in which he appears as a knight in Arthur's retinue and chief gatekeeper of his court.
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Gottfried von Strassburg
Gottfried von Strassburg (died c. 1210) is the author of the Middle High German courtly romance Tristan, an adaptation of the 12th-century Tristan and Iseult legend.
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Great Britain
Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.
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Guinevere
Guinevere (Gwenhwyfar; Gwenivar, Gwynnever), also often written in Modern English as Guenevere or Guenever, was, according to Arthurian legend, an early-medieval queen of Great Britain and the wife of King Arthur.
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Gwynedd
Gwynedd is a county in the north-west of Wales.
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Hartmann von Aue
Hartmann von Aue, also known as Hartmann von Ouwe, (born c. 1160–70, died c. 1210–20) was a German knight and poet.
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Henry Lovelich
Henry Lovelich (fl. mid-15th c.), also known as Herry Lovelich, and Lovelich the Skinner, was an English poet of 15th-century London.
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High Middle Ages
The High Middle Ages, or High Medieval Period, was the period of European history that lasted from AD 1000 to 1300.
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Historia Brittonum
The History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum) is a purported history of early Britain written around 828 that survives in numerous recensions from after the 11th century.
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Historia Regum Britanniae
(The History of the Kings of Britain), originally called (On the Deeds of the Britons), is a pseudohistorical account of British history, written around 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth.
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Holy Grail
The Holy Grail (Saint Graal, Graal Santel, Greal Sanctaidd, Gral) is a treasure that serves as an important motif in Arthurian literature. Knights of the Round Table and Holy Grail are Arthurian legend.
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Holy Land
The Holy Land is an area roughly located between the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern bank of the Jordan River, traditionally synonymous both with the biblical Land of Israel and with the region of Palestine.
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Hywel the Great
King Hoel (Hoel I Mawr, "Hoel the Great"; Hoelus, Hovelus, Hœlus), also known as Sir Howel, Saint Hywel and Hywel the Great, was a late 5th- and early 6th-centuryFord, David Nash.
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Idylls of the King
Idylls of the King, published between 1859 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892; Poet Laureate from 1850) which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and her tragic betrayal of him, and the rise and fall of Arthur's kingdom.
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Iseult
Iseult, alternatively Isolde and other spellings, is the name of several characters in the legend of Tristan and Iseult.
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Jaufre
Jaufre (also called Jaufré or Jaufri) is the only surviving Arthurian romance written in Occitan.
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Jean d'Outremeuse
Jean d'Outremeuse or Jean des Preis (1338 in Liège – 1400) was a writer and historian who wrote two romanticised historical works and a lapidary.
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Jerusalem
Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.
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Jester
A jester, court jester, fool or joker was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain guests during royal court.
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John Henry Dearle
John Henry Dearle (22 August 1859 – 15 January 1932) was a British textile and stained-glass designer trained by the artist and craftsman William Morris who was much influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
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Johnny Brennan
Johnny Brennan (born December 1, 1961) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, and writer, known as the creator of The Jerky Boys, which released a series of prank phone call CDs, between 1993 and 1999.
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Joseph of Arimathea
Joseph of Arimathea (Ἰωσὴφ ὁ ἀπὸ Ἀριμαθαίας) is a Biblical figure who assumed responsibility for the burial of Jesus after his crucifixion.
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Joyous Gard
Joyous Gard (French Joyeuse Garde and other variants) is a castle featured in the Matter of Britain literature of the legend of King Arthur.
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Judas Maccabeus
Judah Maccabee (or Judas Maccabaeus, also spelled Maccabeus) was a Jewish priest (kohen) and a son of the priest Mattathias.
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Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman.
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Julius Caesar's invasions of Britain
In the course of his Gallic Wars, Julius Caesar invaded Britain twice: in 55 and 54 BC.
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Kay
The name Kay is found both as a surname and as a given name.
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King Arthur
King Arthur (Brenin Arthur, Arthur Gernow, Roue Arzhur, Roi Arthur), according to legends, was a king of Britain. Knights of the Round Table and king Arthur are Arthurian legend.
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King Arthur (2004 film)
King Arthur is a 2004 historical adventure film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Franzoni.
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King Arthur's family
King Arthur's family grew throughout the centuries with King Arthur's legend.
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King Arthur's messianic return
King Arthur's messianic return is a mythological motif in the legend of King Arthur, which claims that he will one day return in the role of a messiah to save his people. Knights of the Round Table and King Arthur's messianic return are Arthurian legend.
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King Bagdemagus
Bagdemagus (pronounced /ˈbægdɛˌmægəs/), also known as Bademagu, Bademagus, Bademaguz, Bagdemagu, Bagomedés, Baldemagu, Baldemagus, Bandemagu, Bandemagus, Bangdemagew, Baudemagu, Baudemagus, and other variants (such as the Italian Bando di Mago or the Hebrew Bano of Magoç), is a character in the Arthurian legend, usually depicted as king of the land of Gorre and a Knight of the Round Table.
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King Ban
Ban of Benoic (Old French: Ban de Bénoïc) is a character in Arthurian legend.
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King Leodegrance
King Leodegrance, sometimes Leondegrance, Leodogran, or variations thereof, is the father of Queen Guinevere in Arthurian legend.
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King Lot
King Lot, also spelled Loth or Lott (Lleu or Llew in Welsh), is a British monarch in Arthurian legend.
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King Pellinore
King Pellinore (alternatively Pellinor, Pellynore and other variants) is the king of Listenoise (possibly the Lake District) or of "the Isles" (possibly Anglesey, or perhaps the medieval kingdom of the same name) in Arthurian legend.
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King Rience
King Rience, also spelt Ryence, Ryons, and Rion(s), is a character from Arthurian legend, an enemy of King Arthur in the early years of his reign.
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Knight
A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity.
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Knight-errant
A knight-errant (or knight errant) is a figure of medieval chivalric romance literature. Knights of the Round Table and knight-errant are fictional knights.
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Knights of the Round Table
The Knights of the Round Table (Marchogion y Ford Gron, Marghekyon an Moos Krenn, Marc'hegien an Daol Grenn) are the legendary knights of the fellowship of King Arthur that first appeared in the Matter of Britain literature in the mid-12th century. Knights of the Round Table and knights of the Round Table are Arthurian legend, fictional knights and lists of knights and dames.
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La Tavola Ritonda
La Tavola Ritonda (The Round Table) is a 15th-century Italian Arthurian romance written in the medieval Tuscan language.
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La Vengeance Raguidel
La Vengeance Raguidel is a 13th-century, Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français.
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Lady of the Lake
The Lady of the Lake (Dame du Lac, Demoiselle du Lac, Arglwyddes y Llyn, Arloedhes an Lynn, Itron al Lenn, Dama del Lago) is a name or a title used by several either mermaid or mermaid-like but human enchantresses in the Matter of Britain, the body of medieval literature and mythology associated with the legend of King Arthur.
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Lamorak
Lamorak (or Lamerak, Lamorac(k), Lamorat, Lamerocke, and other spellings) is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend.
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Lancelot
Lancelot du Lac (French for Lancelot of the Lake), also written as Launcelot and other variants, is a character in some versions of Arthurian legend where he is typically depicted as King Arthur's close companion and one of the greatest Knights of the Round Table.
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Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart
Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart (Lancelot, le Chevalier de la charrette), is a 12th-century Old French poem by Chrétien de Troyes, although it is believed that Chrétien did not complete the text himself.
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Lancelot-Grail
The Lancelot-Grail Cycle (a modern title invented by Ferdinand Lot), also known as the Vulgate Cycle (from the Latin editio vulgata, "common version", a modern title invented by H. Oskar Sommer) or the Pseudo-Map Cycle (named so after Walter Map, its pseudo-author), is an early 13th-century French Arthurian literary cycle consisting of interconnected prose episodes of chivalric romance originally written in Old French.
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Languedoc
The Province of Languedoc (Lengadòc) is a former province of France.
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Lanval
Lanval is one of the Lais of Marie de France.
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Lanzelet
Lanzelet is a medieval romance written by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven after 1194.
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Layamon
Layamon or Laghamon – spelled Laȝamon or Laȝamonn in his time, occasionally written Lawman – was an English poet of the late 12th/early 13th century and author of the Brut, a notable work that was the first to present the legends of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in English poetry (the first Arthurian poems were by Frenchman Chrétien de Troyes).
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Layamon's Brut
Layamon's Brut (ca. 1190 – 1215), also known as The Chronicle of Britain, is a Middle English alliterative verse poem compiled and recast by the English priest Layamon.
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Le Morte d'Arthur
Le Morte d'Arthur (originally written as le morte Darthur; Anglo-Norman French for "The Death of Arthur") is a 15th-century Middle English prose reworking by Sir Thomas Malory of tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table, along with their respective folklore.
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Libeaus Desconus
Libeaus Desconus is a 14th-century Middle English version of the popular "Fair Unknown" story, running to about around 2,200 lines, attributed to Thomas Chestre.
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List of Arthurian characters
The Arthurian legend features many characters, including the Knights of the Round Table and members of King Arthur's family.
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List of Byzantine emperors
The foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD marks the conventional start of the Eastern Roman Empire, which fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD.
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List of legendary kings of Britain
The following list of legendary kings of Britain derives predominantly from Geoffrey of Monmouth's circa 1136 work Historia Regum Britanniae ("the History of the Kings of Britain").
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Logres
Logres (among various other forms and spellings) is King Arthur's realm in the Matter of Britain.
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Lorraine
Lorraine, also,,; Lorrain: Louréne; Lorraine Franconian: Lottringe; Lothringen; Loutrengen; Lotharingen is a cultural and historical region in Northeastern France, now located in the administrative region of Grand Est.
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Lothian
Lothian (Lowden, Loudan, -en, -o(u)n; Lodainn) is a region of the Scottish Lowlands, lying between the southern shore of the Firth of Forth and the Lammermuir Hills and the Moorfoot Hills.
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Lucius Tiberius
Lucius Tiberius (sometimes Lucius Hiberius, or just simply Lucius; also Thereus in Claris et Laris) is a Western Roman procurator or emperor from Arthurian legend in which he is killed in a war against King Arthur.
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Lynette and Lyonesse
In some versions of Arthurian legend, Lynette (alternatively known as Linnet, Linette, Lynet, Lynette, Lyonet) is a haughty noble lady who travels to King Arthur's court seeking help for her beautiful sister Lyonesse (also Linesse, Lioness, Lionesse, Lyones, Lyonorr, Lyonors), whose lands are besieged by the Red Knight.
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Mabinogion
The Mabinogion are the earliest Welsh prose stories, and belong to the Matter of Britain.
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Mabon ap Modron
Mabon ap Modron is a prominent figure from Welsh and wider Brythonic literature and mythology, the son of Modron and a member of Arthur's war band.
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Maelgwn Gwynedd
Maelgwn Gwynedd (Maglocunus; died c. 547)Based on Phillimore's (1888) reconstruction of the dating of the Annales Cambriae (A Text).
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Maleagant
Maleagant (alternately Malagant, Meleagan, Meleagant, Meliagant, Meliagaunt, Meliagant, Meliaganz, Meliagrance, Meliagrant, Mellegrans, Mellyagraunce) is a villain from Arthurian legend.
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Marie de France
Marie de France (fl. 1160–1215) was a poet, possibly born in what is now France, who lived in England during the late 12th century.
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Mark of Cornwall
Mark of Cornwall (Marcus, Margh, March or Marchell, Marc'h) was a sixth-century King of Kernow (Cornwall), possibly identical with King Conomor.
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Marshal
Marshal is a term used in several official titles in various branches of society.
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Matter of Britain
The Matter of Britain (matière de Bretagne) is the body of medieval literature and legendary material associated with Great Britain and Brittany and the legendary kings and heroes associated with it, particularly King Arthur. Knights of the Round Table and Matter of Britain are Arthurian legend.
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Meliodas
Meliodas is a figure in Arthurian legend in the 12th-century Prose ''Tristan'' and subsequent accounts.
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Melion
Melion is an anonymous Breton lai that tells the story of a knight who transforms into a werewolf for the love of his wife who betrays him. Knights of the Round Table and Melion are Arthurian legend.
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Meraugis de Portlesguez
Meraugis de Portlesguez (Méraugis in some modern texts) is a late 12th-century or early 13th-century Gaston Paris, Romans en vers du cycle de la Table ronde, in Histoire littéraire de la France, 1888.
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Merlin
Merlin (Myrddin, Merdhyn, Merzhin) is a mythical figure prominently featured in the legend of King Arthur and best known as a magician, with several other main roles.
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Merlin (2008 TV series)
Merlin (also known as The Adventures of Merlin) is a British fantasy-adventure drama television programme, loosely based on the Arthurian legends regarding the close relations of Merlin and King Arthur.
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Merlin (Robert de Boron poem)
Merlin is a partly lost French epic poem written by Robert de Boron in Old French and dating from either the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century.
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Modena Cathedral
Modena Cathedral (Cattedrale Metropolitana di Santa Maria Assunta e San Geminiano but colloquially known as simply Duomo di Modena) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Modena, Italy, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and Saint Geminianus.
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Moors
The term Moor is an exonym first used by Christian Europeans to designate the Muslim populations of the Maghreb, al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula), Sicily and Malta during the Middle Ages.
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Mordred
Mordred or Modred (or; Welsh: Medraut or Medrawt) is a figure in the legend of King Arthur.
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Morfydd
Morfydd ferch Urien (Middle Welsh orthographical variations include Morvydd verch Urien; "Morfydd daughter of Urien") is a figure of Welsh Arthurian legend.
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Morgan le Fay
Morgan le Fay (Morgên y Dylwythen Deg; Morgen an Spyrys; all meaning 'Morgan the Fairy'), alternatively known as Morgana, Morgain, Morgne, Morgant, Morgen, and Morgue among other names and spellings, is a powerful and ambiguous enchantress from the legend of King Arthur, in which most often she and he are siblings.
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Morgause
Morgause is a popular variant of the figure of the Queen of Orkney, an Arthurian legend character also known by various other names and appearing in different forms of her archetype.
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Moriaen
Moriaen (also spelled Moriaan, Morion, Morien) is a 13th-century Arthurian romance in Middle Dutch.
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Nantes
Nantes (Gallo: Naunnt or Nantt) is a city in Loire-Atlantique of France on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast.
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Norris J. Lacy
Norris J. Lacy (born March 8, 1940, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky) is an American scholar focusing on French medieval literature.
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North Wales
North Wales (Gogledd Cymru) is a region of Wales, encompassing its northernmost areas.
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Of Arthour and of Merlin
Of Arthour and of Merlin, also known as just Arthur and Merlin, is an anonymous Middle English verse romance giving an account of the reigns of Vortigern and Uther Pendragon and the early years of King Arthur's reign, in which the magician Merlin plays a large part.
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Orgeluse
The Haughty Maiden of Logres is a character from Arthurian legend, appearing in Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail and works based on it.
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Orkney
Orkney (Orkney; Orkneyjar; Orknøjar), also known as the Orkney Islands (archaically "The Orkneys"), is an archipelago off the north coast of Scotland.
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Owain mab Urien
Owain mab Urien (Middle Welsh Owein) (died c. 595) was the son of Urien, king of Rheged c. 590, and fought with his father against the Angles of Bernicia.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Paladin
The Paladins, also called the Twelve Peers, are twelve legendary knights, the foremost members of Charlemagne's court in the 8th century. Knights of the Round Table and Paladin are fictional knights.
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Palamedes (Arthurian legend)
Palamedes (also called Palomides, or some other variant such as the French Palamède; known as li Sarradins that is "the Saracen") is a Knight of the Round Table in the Arthurian legend.
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Palamedes (romance)
Palamedes is a 13th-century Old French Arthurian prose chivalric romance.
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Parsifal
Parsifal (WWV 111) is a music drama in three acts by the German composer Richard Wagner and his last composition.
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Parzival
Parzival is a medieval chivalric romance by the poet and knight Wolfram von Eschenbach in Middle High German.
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Périgord
Périgord (Peiregòrd or Perigòrd) is a natural region and former province of France, which corresponds roughly to the current Dordogne department, now forming the northern part of the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
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Pelleas
Pelleas, or Pellias, is an Arthurian Knight of the Round Table whose story first appears in the Post-Vulgate Cycle.
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Pentecostal Oath
The Pentecostal Oath was an oath which the Knights of King Arthur's Round Table swore, according to Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur.
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Perceforest
Perceforest or Le Roman de Perceforest is an anonymous prose chivalric romance, written in French probably around 1340 with lyrical interludes of poetry, that describes a fictional origin of Great Britain and provides an original genesis of the Arthurian world.
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Perceval, the Story of the Grail
Perceval, the Story of the Grail (Perceval ou le Conte du Graal) is the unfinished fifth verse romance by Chrétien de Troyes, written by him in Old French in the late 12th century.
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Percival
Percival (also written Perceval, Parzival, Parsifal), alternatively called Peredur, is a figure in the legend of King Arthur, often appearing as one of the Knights of the Round Table.
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Percival's sister
Percival's sister is a role of two similar but distinct characters in the Holy Grail stories within the Arthurian legend featuring the Grail hero Percival (Perceval).
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Peredur
Peredur (Old Welsh Peretur) is the name of a number of men from the boundaries of history and legend in sub-Roman Britain.
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Peredur son of Efrawg
Peredur son of Efrawg is one of the Three Welsh Romances associated with the Mabinogion.
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Perlesvaus
Perlesvaus, also called Li Hauz Livres du Graal (The High Book of the Grail), is an Old French Arthurian romance dating to the first decade of the 13th century.
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Phyllis Ann Karr
Phyllis Ann Karr (born July 25, 1944) is an American author of fantasy, romances, mysteries, and non-fiction.
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Poitiers
Poitiers (Poitevin: Poetàe) is a city on the River Clain in west-central France.
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Post-Vulgate Cycle
The Post-Vulgate Cycle, also known as the Post-Vulgate Arthuriad, the Post-Vulgate Roman du Graal (Romance of the Grail) or the Pseudo-Robert de Boron Cycle, is one of the major Old French prose cycles of Arthurian literature from the early 13th century.
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Preiddeu Annwfn
Preiddeu Annwfn or Preiddeu Annwn (The Spoils of Annwfn) is a cryptic poem of sixty lines in Middle Welsh, found in the Book of Taliesin.
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Prose Tristan
The Prose Tristan (Tristan en prose) is an adaptation of the Tristan and Iseult story into a long prose romance, and the first to tie the subject entirely into the arc of the Arthurian legend.
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Provence
Provence is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the Italian border to the east; it is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the south.
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Questing Beast
The Questing Beast, or the Beast Glatisant, is a cross-animal monster appearing in many medieval texts of Arthurian legend and modern works inspired by them. Knights of the Round Table and Questing Beast are Arthurian legend.
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Red Knight
Red Knight (Marchog Coch, Marghek Rudh, Marc'heg Ruz) is a title borne by several characters in Arthurian legend. Knights of the Round Table and Red Knight are fictional knights.
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Rheged
Rheged was one of the kingdoms of the Hen Ogledd ("Old North"), the Brittonic-speaking region of what is now Northern England and southern Scotland, during the post-Roman era and Early Middle Ages.
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Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas").
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Rions
Rions is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.
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Robert de Boron
Robert de Boron (also spelled in the manuscripts "Roberz", "Borron", "Bouron", "Beron") was a French poet active around the late 12th and early 13th centuries, notable as the reputed author of the poems and Merlin.
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Roger Sherman Loomis
Roger Sherman Loomis (1887–1966) was an American scholar and one of the foremost authorities on medieval and Arthurian literature.
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Roman emperor
The Roman emperor was the ruler and monarchical head of state of the Roman Empire, starting with the granting of the title augustus to Octavian in 27 BC.
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Romanz du reis Yder
The Romanz du reis Yder is a medieval Anglo-Norman Arthurian romance, of which 6,769 octosyllablic verse lines survive.
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Rome
Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.
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Round Table
The Round Table (y Ford Gron; an Moos Krenn; an Daol Grenn; Mensa Rotunda) is King Arthur's famed table in the Arthurian legend, around which he and his knights congregate. Knights of the Round Table and Round Table are Arthurian legend.
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Sagramore
Sagramore, also known as Sagramor and other variations of this name (including Sacremor, Sacremors, Sagramour, Sagramoure, Sagremoir, Sagremor, Sagremore, Sagremoret, Sagrenoir, Saigremor, Saigremors, Saigremort, Segramor, Segramore, Segramors, Segramort, Segremor, Segremore, Seigramor, Seigramore, Sigamor, Sogremor and Sygramors), is a knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend.
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Salisbury
Salisbury is a cathedral city and civil parish in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder and Bourne.
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Samson of Dol
Samson of Dol (also Samsun; born late 5th century) was a Welsh saint, who is also counted among the seven founder saints of Brittany with Pol Aurelian, Tugdual or Tudwal, Brieuc, Malo, Patern (Paternus) and Corentin.
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Saracen
German woodcut depicting Saracens Saracen was a term used both in Greek and Latin writings between the 5th and 15th centuries to refer to the people who lived in and near what was designated by the Romans as Arabia Petraea and Arabia Deserta.
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Scent hound
Bernese Huntsmen Corps with his Berner Laufhund, painted by Jean Preudhomme in 1785 Scent hounds (or scenthounds) are a type of hound that primarily hunts by scent rather than sight.
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Sebile
Sebile, alternatively written as Sedile, Sebille, Sibilla, Sibyl, Sybilla, and other similar names, is a mythical medieval queen or princess who is frequently portrayed as a fairy or an enchantress in the Arthurian legend and Italian folklore.
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Seneschal
The word seneschal can have several different meanings, all of which reflect certain types of supervising or administering in a historic context.
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Siege Perilous
In Arthurian legend, the Siege Perilous (Gwarchae Peryglus, also known as The Perilous Seat, Sedd Peryglus) is a vacant seat at the Round Table reserved by Merlin for the knight who would one day be successful in the quest for the Holy Grail. Knights of the Round Table and Siege Perilous are Arthurian legend.
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Sir Balin
Balin the Savage, also known as the Knight with the Two Swords, is a character in the Arthurian legend. Knights of the Round Table and Sir Balin are fictional knights.
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Sir Cleges
Sir Cleges is a medieval English verse chivalric romanceLaura A. Hibbard, Medieval Romance in England p79 New York Burt Franklin,1963 written in tail-rhyme stanzas in the late 14th or early 15th century.
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Sir Ector
Ector, sometimes Hector, Antor, or Ectorius, is the father of Kay and the adoptive father of King Arthur in the Matter of Britain.
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Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle
Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle is a Middle English tail-rhyme romance of 660 lines, composed in about 1400.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century chivalric romance in Middle English alliterative verse.
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Sir Kay
In Arthurian legend, Kay (Cai, Middle Welsh Kei or Cei; Caius; French: Keu; Old French: Kès or Kex) is King Arthur's foster brother and later seneschal, as well as one of the first Knights of the Round Table.
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Sir Launfal
Sir Launfal is a 1045-line Middle English romance or Breton lay written by Thomas Chestre dating from the late 14th century.
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Sir Lionel
Lionel is a character in Arthurian legend.
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South Wales
South Wales (De Cymru) is a loosely defined region of Wales bordered by England to the east and mid Wales to the north.
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Squire
In the Middle Ages, a squire was the shield- or armour-bearer of a knight.
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Stanzaic Morte Arthur
The Stanzaic Morte Arthur is an anonymous 14th-century Middle English poem in 3,969 lines, about the adulterous affair between Lancelot and Guinevere, and Lancelot's tragic dissension with King Arthur.
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Strathclyde
Strathclyde (Ystrad Clud in Northern Brittonic; Srath Chluaidh in Gaelic, meaning 'strath of the River Clyde') was one of nine former local government regions of Scotland created in 1975 by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and abolished in 1996 by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.
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Striguil
Striguil or Strigoil is the name that was used from the 11th century until the late 14th century for the port and Norman castle of Chepstow, on the Welsh side of the River Wye which forms the boundary with England.
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The Dream of Rhonabwy
The Dream of Rhonabwy (Breuddwyd Rhonabwy) is a Middle Welsh prose tale.
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The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain
The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain (also commonly spelt Golagros and Gawane) is a Middle Scots Arthurian romance written in alliterative verse of 1362 lines, known solely from a printed edition of 1508 in the possession of the National Library of Scotland.
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Thomas Malory
Sir Thomas Malory was an English writer, the author of Le Morte d'Arthur, the classic English-language chronicle of the Arthurian legend, compiled and in most cases translated from French sources.
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Thomas of Britain
Thomas of Britain (also known as Thomas of England) was a poet of the 12th century.
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Three Welsh Romances
The Three Welsh Romances (Welsh: Y Tair Rhamant) are three Middle Welsh tales associated with the Mabinogion.
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Trial by combat
Trial by combat (also wager of battle, trial by battle or judicial duel) was a method of Germanic law to settle accusations in the absence of witnesses or a confession in which two parties in dispute fought in single combat; the winner of the fight was proclaimed to be right.
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Tristan
Tristan (Latin/Brythonic: Drustanus; Trystan), also known as Tristram, Tristyn or Tristain and similar names, is the hero of the legend of Tristan and Iseult.
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Tristan and Iseult
Tristan and Iseult, also known as Tristan and Isolde and other names, is a medieval chivalric romance told in numerous variations since the 12th century.
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Tudwal
Saint Tudwal (died c. 564), also known as Tual, Tudgual, Tugdual, Tugual, Pabu, Papu, or Tugdualus (Latin), was a Breton monk, considered to be one of the seven founder saints of Brittany.
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Urien
Urien, often referred to as Urien Rheged or Uriens, was a late 6th-century king of Rheged, an early British kingdom of the Hen Ogledd (today's northern England and southern Scotland) of the House of Rheged.
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Uther Pendragon
Uther Pendragon (Brittonic) (Ythyr Ben Dragwn, Uthyr Pendragon, Uthyr Bendragon), also known as King Uther, was a legendary King of the Britons and father of King Arthur.
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Val sans retour
The Val sans retour (Vale of No Return or Valley Without Return), also known as the Val des faux amants (Vale of False Lovers) or the Val périlleux (Perilous Vale), is a mythical site from Arthurian legend, as well as a physical site located in central Brittany, in the Paimpont forest.
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Vannes
Vannes (Gwened) is a commune in the Morbihan department in Brittany in north-western France.
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Vassal
A vassal or liege subject is a person regarded as having a mutual obligation to a lord or monarch, in the context of the feudal system in medieval Europe.
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Vulgate
The Vulgate is a late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible.
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Wales in the Middle Ages
Wales in the Middle Ages covers the history of the country that is now called Wales, from the departure of the Romans in the early fifth century to the annexation of Wales into the Kingdom of England in the early sixteenth century.
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Wasteland (mythology)
The Wasteland is a Celtic motif that ties the barrenness of a land with a curse that must be lifted by a hero.
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Wauchier de Denain
Wauchier de Denain (also spelled "Gauchier de Donaing") was a French writer and translator in the langue d'oïl, active at the start of the 13th century.
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Welsh mythology
Welsh mythology consists of both folk traditions developed in Wales, and traditions developed by the Celtic Britons elsewhere before the end of the first millennium.
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Welsh Triads
The Welsh Triads (Trioedd Ynys Prydein, "Triads of the Island of Britain") are a group of related texts in medieval manuscripts which preserve fragments of Welsh folklore, mythology and traditional history in groups of three.
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Wendelin Förster
Wendelin Förster (often written as Foerster; 10 February 1844 – 18 May 1915) was an Austrian philologist and Romance scholar.
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William Morris
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement.
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Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire.
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Wirnt von Grafenberg
Wirnt von Grafenberg was a Middle High German poet of the thirteenth century.
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Wolfram von Eschenbach
Wolfram von Eschenbach (–) was a German knight, poet and composer, regarded as one of the greatest epic poets of medieval German literature.
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Y Gododdin
Y Gododdin is a medieval Welsh poem consisting of a series of elegies to the men of the Brittonic kingdom of Gododdin and its allies who, according to the conventional interpretation, died fighting the Angles of Deira and Bernicia at a place named Catraeth in about AD 600.
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Yvain, the Knight of the Lion
Yvain, the Knight of the Lion (Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion) is an Arthurian romance by French poet Chrétien de Troyes.
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Ywain
In Arthurian legend, Ywain, also known as Yvain and Owain among other spellings (Ewaine, Ivain, Ivan, Iwain, Iwein, Uwain, Uwaine, Ywan, etc.), is a Knight of the Round Table.
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Ywain and Gawain
Ywain and Gawain is an early-14th century Middle English Arthurian verse romance based quite closely upon the late-12th-century Old French romance The Knight of the Lion by Chrétien de Troyes.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_the_Round_Table
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