List of Arthurian Media is an attempt to collate a list of all Arthurian Media, including literary works, Historical texts, archaeological evidence, artwork, films, TV shows etc.
About the List / Table Columns explained[]
- Year/Date: There are two columns for date. 'Year' is intended to be a sortable list of relative dates. However, for many older works, the date is disputed or vague and for modern works the date can be more specific. The 'Date' column is intended for more accurate date ranges and information.
- Title: Title of work/Name of person. Original Language (English translation and any alternate names)
- Contributor: Including, Authors; Scholars; Artists; Creators; Directors etc
- Media: Type of Source/ Media
- Language: Language/ Tradition. This column is usually the language that the media is in e.g. Middle Welsh, Old-Norman, Hebrew etc. However, the English language is split into America, Canadian, British, English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish etc.
- Genre: An attempt to group legends based on similar themes or sub-genres. E.g. Medieval Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Welsh mythology etc.
List/Table[]
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| Year | Date | Title | Contributor | Media | Language | Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 182 | 1st-2nd century | Lucius Artorius Castus | na | Person - Arthur | Latin, Roman Britain | Historical (The Sarmatian Theory) | |
| 470 | late 5th Century | Riothamus | na | Person/Title - Arthur | Romano-British | Historical: post-Roman Britain | |
| 480 | late 5th century | Ambrosius Aurelianus | na | Person - Arthur | Romano-British | Historical: post-Roman Britain | |
| 500 | 6th-10th Century. Preserved in the 14th Century Book of Taliesin | Preiddeu Annw(f)n (The Spoils of Annwfn) | Taliesin (attributed) | Folklore | Middle Welsh | Welsh mythology | |
| 600 | 7th-14th Century | Kat Godeu / Cad Goddeu (The Battle of the Forest) | Taliesin (attributed) | Folklore Poem | Middle Welsh | Welsh Mythology | |
| 500 | 6th Century | Cadbury hilfort | na | Archaeological Site | Romano-British | Historical: post-Roman Britain | |
| 510 | c. 510-540 | De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae (On the Ruin (and Conquest) of Britain) | Anonomous | Historical Text | Latin | Historical: post-Roman Britain | |
| 580 | 580-596 | Artuir mac Áedáin | na | Person - Arthur | Irish/Scottish | Historical: post-Roman Scotland | |
| 600 | 7th century - 11th century. Preserved in the 13th century Book of Anerin. | Y Gododdin | Aneirin (attributed) | Folklore Poem | Middle Welsh | Welsh mythology | |
| 645 | 7th century | Athrwys | na | Person - Arthur | Middle Welsh | Historical: post-Roman Wales | |
| 655 | Survives in a 1631 manuscript | Marwanad Cynddylan (The Death-song of Cynddylan) | Anonymous | Folklore | Middle Welsh | Welsh mythology | |
| 828 | c. 828 | Historia Brittonum (The History of the Britons) | Nennius (attributed) | Historical Text | Latin | Historical: post-Roman | |
| 960 | 10th Century | Annales Cambriae | Anonymous | Historical Text | Latin | Historical: post-Roman | |
| 1000 | 11th-14th Century. Preserved in a 14th Century text. | Trioedd Ynys Prydein (Triads of the Isle of Britain) aka the Welsh Triads | Anonymous | Folklore Poem | Middle Welsh | Welsh mythology | |
| 1086 | 11th Century | Vita Sancti Cadoci(The Life od Saint Caradoc) | Lifris of Llancarfan | Prose | Latin | Life of saints | |
| 1090 | 11th Century | Ymddidan Arthur a’r Eryr (The Dialogue of Arthur and the Eagle) | Anonommous | Folklore Poem | Middle Welsh | Welsh mythology | |
| 1090 | 11th Century | Pa Gur yv y porthaur? (What man is the gatekeeper?) or Ymddiddan Arthur a Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr (The dialogue of Arthur and Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr) | Anonymous | Folklore Poem | Middle Welsh | Welsh mythology | |
| 1175 | 1175-1200 | Folie Tristan d'Oxford | Anonomous | Prose | Anglo-Norman | ||
| 1129 | 12th Century | Historia anglorum | Henry of Huntingdon | Text | Latin | ||
| 1138 | 12th Century | Historia Regum Britanniae (The History of the Kings of Britain) | Geoffrey of Monmouth | Prose; Psydo-Historical Text | Latin | Historical Fiction: post-Roman/ Galfredian | |
| 1140 | 12th Century (1140-1150) | Vita Merlini (The Life of Merlin) | Geoffrey of Monmouth | Prose | Latin | Historical Fiction: post-Roman/ Galfredian | |
| 1155 | 1155 | Roman de Brut | Wace | Prose | Norman French | Galfredian/French Romances | |
| 1155 | late 12th century, most likely between 1155-117 | Lais of Marie de France | Marie de France | Poem | Anglo-Norman | ||
| 1170 | 12th Century | Lanval | Marie de France | Poem | French (Francien) | French Romances | |
| 1170 | 12th Century | Erec and Enide | Chrétien de Troyes | Poem | Old French | French Romances | |
| 1170 | 12th Century | Le Roman de Tristan (The Romance of Tristan) | Béroul | Text | Norman French | Lancelot-Grail Cycle | |
| 1176 | c. 1176 | Cligès | Chretien de Troyes | Text | French | French Romances | |
| 1177 | 12th Century | Yvain the Knight of the Lion | Chretien de Troyes | Text | French | French Romances | |
| 1177 | 12th Century | Lancelot: The Knight of The Cart | Chretien de Troyes | Text | French | French Romances | |
| 1185 | 1180 ~ 1190 | Erec | Hartmann von Aue | Text | Middle High German | Medieval Fantasy | |
| 1190 | 12th Century | Perceval, the Story of the Grail | Chrétien de Troyes | Text | Old French | Grail Cycle | |
| 1190 | 12th Century? | Vita Sancti Gundleii | Text | Latin | Life of Saints | ||
| 1190 | c.1190-1215 | Didot-Perceval | Anonymous | Text | |||
| 1194 | 12th Century | Lanzelet | Ulrich von Zatzikhoven | Text | Middle High German | ||
| 1200 | 13th Century | Moriaen | Anonymous | Text | Middle Dutch | ||
| 1203 | ~1200 | Iwein | Hartmann von Aue | Text | Middle High German | Medieval Fantasy | |
| 1210 | c.1210s-1230s | Lancelot-Grail (The Vulgate Cycle) Etoire de Saint Grail, Estoire de Merlin, Lancelot propre, Queste del Saint Graal, Mort Artu | Anonymous | Text | Old French | Lancelot-Grail Cycle | |
| 1210 | c.1210-1250 | Prose Lancelot. Including Charrette, Galehot | Anonymous | Text | Old French | Lancelot-Grail Cycle | |
| 1210 | 1200 ~ 1210 | Parzival | Wolfram von Eschenbach | Text | Middle High German | ||
| 1210 | 13th Century | Perlesvaus (High History of the Holy Graal) | Anonymous | Text | Old French | ||
| 1220 | 13th Century | Diu Krône (The Crown) | Heinrich von dem Türlin | Novel | Middle High German | ||
| 1230 | 13th Century | Prose Tristan | Luce de Gat, Helie de Boron (attributed) | Text | Old French | ||
| 1235 | c.1235-1240 | Palamedes (romance) | Text | Helie de Boron (attributed) | Old French | ||
| 1240 | begun 1230s, finished 1240s | Post-Vulgate Cycle | Anonomous | Text | Old French | Lancelot-Grail Cycle | |
| 1240 | 1240 | Meleranz | Der Pleier | Text | German | ||
| 1240 | 1240 | Tandareis und Flordibel (Tandareis and Flordibel) | Der Pleier | Text | German | ||
| 1260 | 13th Century | Romance of Silence | Heldrius de Cornwall | Old French | |||
| 1280 | 13th Century | Tristano Riccardiano | Anonymous | ||||
| 1300 | late 13th or early 14th Century | A demanda do Santo Graal (Portuguese) | Text | Portugese | Grail-Cycle | ||
| 1300 | 13th Century | Stanzaic Morte Arthur | Anonymous | Poem | Middle-English | Lancelot-Grail Cycle | |
| 1300 | 14th Century | Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch White Book of Rhydderch | Manusctript | Welsh | Compilation | ||
| 1300 | 14th Century | Red Book of Hergest | Manuscript | Welsh | Compilation | ||
| 1300 | 14th Century | Geraint and Enid | Unknown | Text | Welsh | ||
| 1325 | Early 14th Century | Book of Taliesin | Taliesin (attributed) | Manuscript | Old Welsh | Compilation | |
| 1325 | 15th | La Tavola Ritonda | Anonomous | Text | Tuscan / Italian | Lancelot-Grail Cycle | |
| 1350 | 14th Century | Mabinogion | Anonymous | Manuscript | Welsh | Compilation | |
| 1350 | 14th Century | Owain, or the Lady of the Fountain | Anonymous | Text | Welsh | Welsh Romance | |
| 1350 | 14th Century | Peredur | Anonymous | Text | Welsh | Welsh Romance | |
| 1387 | c. 14th century | The Wife of Bath's Tale (The Canterbury Tales) | Geoffrey Chaucer | Poem | Middle English | ||
| 1390 | Late 14th Century | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | The Pearl Poet (attributed) | Text | Middle English | ||
| 1400 | 14th-15th | Alliterative Morte Arthure | Anonymous / Huchoun | Text | Middle English (East Midlands dialect) | ||
| 1470 | published 1485 | Le Morte d’Arthur | Thomas Malory, Sir | Novel | Middle English | Lancelot-Grail Cycle | |
| 1490 | Late 15th Century | Le Chevalier du Papegau (The Knight of the Parrot) | Novel | French | French Romance | ||
| 1500 | 15th-16th Century | Araith Iolo Goch | Anonommous | Poem | Welsh | Folklore - Celtic | |
| 1515 | late 13th Century - 16th Century | A demanda do Santo Graal (Spanish) | Toledo, 1515; Seville 1535 | Text | Spanish | Grail-Cycle | |
| 1590 | 16th Century | The Faerie Queene | Edmund Spenser | Poem | English | ||
| 1662 | 17th Century | The Birth of Merlin, or, The Childe Hath Found His Father | William Rowley | Text | English | ||
| 1691 | 17th Century | King Arthur or the British Worthy | John Dryden, music by Henry Purcell | Opera | English | ||
| 1799 | 18th Century | Vortigern and Rowena | W. H. Ireland | Text | English | ||
| 1833 | 19th Century | The Lady of Shallott | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Poem | English | Tenyson Revival | |
| 1848 | 1848 or 1888 | Lohengrin | Richard Wagner | Opera | German | ||
| 1865 | 1865 | Tristan und Isolde | Richard Wagner | Opera | German | ||
| 1880 | 19th Century | The Boy's King Arthur | Sidney Lanier | Text | American English | Malory | |
| 1882 | 1882 | Parsifal | Richard Wagner | Opera | German | ||
| 1885 | 1859-1885 | Idylls of the King | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Poem | English | ||
| 1889 | 1889 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Mark Twain | Novel | American English | Twainian | |
| 1895 | 1895 | King Arthur: A Drama in a Prologue and Four Acts | J. Comyns Carr, Produced by Henry Irving | Theatre | English | Malory and Tennyson | |
| 1897 | 1897-1902 | Merlin | Isaac Albeniz | Opera | Spanish | ||
| 1903 | 20th Century (No Copyright) | The Story of King Arthur and His Knights | Howard Pyle | Novel - Illustrated | American English | ||
| 1903 | 1903 | Le Roi Arthus | Ernest Chausson | Opera | French | ||
| 1920 | 20th / 21st Century (published 2013, written circa 1920–30s but left unfinished) | The Fall of Arthur | J.R.R. Tolkien | Novel | English | ||
| 1922 | 1922 | The Waste Land | T.S. Elliot | Book | English | Grail-Cycle, Modern AU | |
| 1946 | 1946-1948 | Turangalîla | Olivier Messiaen, | Music - Orchestral | French | Tristan and Isolde Romance | |
| 1937 | 1937 | Prince Valiant | Foster and many others | Commic Book -Western comic | American English | ||
| 1938 | 20th Century | The Once and Future King series including,
|
T. H. White | Novel | |||
| 1949 | 1949 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949 film) | Film | American | Twainian | ||
| 1949 | 1949 | The Adventures of Sir Galahad | Columbia Pictures | Film Serial | American | ||
| 1953 | 1953 | Knights of the Round Table | Film | English | Malory | ||
| 1953 | 20th Century | King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table | Roger Lancelyn Green | Novel | English | ||
| 1954 | 1954 | Prince Valiant | Hal Foster | Film | English | ||
| 1954 | 1954 | The Black Knight | Film | English | |||
| 1955 | 1955 | The Long Sunset | R.C.Sherriff | Theatre & Audio | Historical Fiction (Romano-British) | ||
| 1956 | 1956-1957 | The Adventures of Sir Lancelot | TV Show | English | |||
| 1963 | 1963 | The Sword in the Stone | Walt Disney | Animated Film | Disney animated film about Arthur's childhood, loosely adapted from T.H. White's novel of the same name. | Medieval Fantasy - T.H.White | |
| 1963 | 1963 | Sword of Lancelot | Film | English | |||
| 1967 | 1967 | Camelot | Film | English | |||
| 1970 | 1970 | The Crystal Cave | Mary Stewart | Novel | American English | ||
| 1972 | 1972–1973 | Arthur of the Britons | TV Show | British | Historical Fiction - post-Roman Britain | ||
| 1973 | 1973 | Gawain and the Green Knight | Film | English | |||
| 1973 | 1973 | The Hollow Hills | Mary Stewart | Novel | |||
| 1973 | 1973 | Excalibur | Sanders Anne Laubenthal | Novel | American English | ||
| 1974 | 1974 | Lancelot du Lac | Robert Bresson (director)]] | Film | French | ||
| 1975 | 1975 | King Arthur: Young Warlord | Film | Historical Fiction - post Roman (Malory) | |||
| 1975 | 1975 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | Film | English | Medieval Fantasy | ||
| 1975 | 20th Century | The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights | John Steinbeck | Novel | English | ||
| 1978 | 1978 | Perceval le Gallois | Film | French | |||
| 1979 | 1979 | Lovespell | Film | ||||
| 1979 | 1979 | Unidentified Flying Oddball | Film | ||||
| 1979 | 1979 | The Last Enchantment | Mary Stewart | Novel | |||
| 1979 | 1979 | Morlock Night | K.W. Jeter | Novel | Sci-Fi | ||
| 1979 | 1979 | King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table | TV Show | ||||
| 1979 | 1979 | The Legend of King Arthur | BBC | TV Mini Series | English | ||
| 1980 | 1980 | Excalibur! | Gil Kane | Novel | |||
| 1981 | 1981 | Excalibur | John Boorman | Film | English | Malory | |
| 1981 | 1981-1982 | Mr. Merlin | TV Show | American | |||
| 1982 | 20th Century | Camelot 3000 | Comic Book | American | Return of Arthur | ||
| 1982 | 20th Century | The Idylls of the Queen | Phyllis Ann Karr | Novel | English | ||
| 1983 | 1983 | The Mists of Avalon | Marion Zimmer Bradley | Novel | |||
| 1984 | 1984 | Sword of the Vailant | Film | English | |||
| 1984 | 1984 | Morte d'Arthur | Malory | ||||
| 1985 | 1985 | A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court | Animated Series | ||||
| 1985 | 1985 | Merlin and the Sword | Film | English | |||
| 1985 | 1985 | Excalibur | TV Episode | ||||
| 1985 | 1985 | Arthur the King | |||||
| 1987 | 1987 | Ghostbusters: Hard Knight's Day | TV Episode | Cameo | |||
| 1989 | 1989 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Film | American | Cameo | ||
| 1989 | 1989 | The Quest of Agravain | Game-platform | ||||
| 1990 | 1990 | Conquests of Camelot | Sierra Entertainment | Game-Videogame | |||
| 1990 | 1990 | Arthur- The King | Radio Series | ||||
| 1991 | 1991 | Good Knight MacGyver | TV Episode | American English | Cameo | ||
| 1991 | 1991 | The Fisher King | Film | ||||
| 1991 | 1991 | Vengeance of Excalibur | Game-RPG-videogame | Spanish | |||
| 1991 | 1991 | Merlin of the Crystal Cave | Mary Stewart | Novel | |||
| 1991 | 1991 | Gawain | Harrison Birtwistle | Opera | English | ||
| 1991 | 1991 | Merlin and the Dragons | TV | ||||
| 1991 | 1991 | Young Indiana Jones and the Ghostly Riders | Novel | ||||
| 1994 | 1994 | Gargoyles | TV | Cameo | |||
| 1994 | 1994 | Young Merlin | Game-Videogame | ||||
| 1994 | 1994 | Guinevere | |||||
| 1995 | 1995 | A Kid in King Arthur's Court | Film | American | Twainian | ||
| 1995 | 1995 | First Knight | Film | English | |||
| 1995 | 1995-1997 | The Warlord Chronicles Consist of three novels, The Winter King, Enemy of God, and Excalibur, and reintroduce many old characters into the tale. | Warlord Chronicles: | Bernard Cornwell | Novel | English | |
| 1996 | 1996 | Babylon 5 Episode: A Late Delivery from Avalon | TV Episode | American | Return of Arthur / Cameo | ||
| 1997 | 1997 | Camelot | |||||
| 1998 | 1998 | Quest for Camelot | Animated Film | English | |||
| 1998 | 1998 | Camelot: The Legend | |||||
| 1998 | 1998 | Camelot | |||||
| 1998 | 1998 | Merlin | |||||
| 1999 | 1999 | Excalibur | Alan Simon | Opera | French | Folklore | |
| 1999 | 1999 | Arthur's Quest | TV Show | ||||
| 2000 | 2000 | Merlin: The Return | Film | English | Modern AU | ||
| 2000 | 2000 | Myths and Legends of King Arthur | Music - Album | ||||
| 2001 | 2001 | Mists of Avalon | TV | Mists of Avalon | |||
| 2002 | 2002 | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Animated Film | English | |||
| 2003 | 2003 | Y Mabinogi | Animated Film | Welsh | Folklore? | ||
| 2004 | 2004 | King Arthur | Film | English | Historical Fiction: Roman | ||
| 2004 | 2005-2009 | Kaamelott | Film | ||||
| 2005 | 2005 | Avalon High | Meg Cabot | Novel | |||
| 2005 | 2005 | A Connecticut Fashionista in King Arthur's Court | Marianne Mancusi | Novel | American English | Twainian | |
| 2005 | 2005–2006 | King Arthur's Disasters | Animated Series | English | |||
| 2005 | 2005 | Shadows Over Camelot | Days of Wonder | Game-Boardgame | |||
| 2006 | 2006 | King Arthur: Excalibur Unsheathed | Jeff Limke and Tom Yeats | Comic Book | |||
| 2006 | 2006 | Tristan & Isolde | Film | English | |||
| 2006 | 2006 | Tomb Raider: Legend | Crystal Dynamics | Game-Videogame | |||
| 2006 | 2006 | Merlin's Apprentice | TV Miniseries | English | |||
| 2007 | 2007 | Shrek the Third | Pixar | Animated Film | English | Cameo | |
| 2007 | 2007 | The Last Legion | Film | Historical Fiction: Roman | |||
| 2007 | 2007 | Arthur & Lancelot: The Fight for Camelot | Jeff Limke and Tom Yeates | Comic Book | |||
| 2008 | 2008 | The Adventures of Merlin | Johnny Capps, Julian Murphy | TV Show | British | Medieval Fantasy | |
| 2008 | 2008 | Merlin and the War of the Dragons | Film | English | |||
| 2009 | 2009 | Sonic and the Black Knight | Game-Videogame | ||||
| 2009 | 21st Century | Gwenhwyfar, The White Spirit | Mercedes Lackey | Novel - Young Adult | |||
| 2010 | 2010 | Avalon High | Film | English | Avalon High | ||
| 2010 | 2010 | Calogrenant | Comic Book - Webcomic | ||||
| 2010 | 2010 | The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend | Peter Ackroyd | Novel | Malory | ||
| 2011 | 2011 | Once Upon a Time | ABC | TV Show | American English | Cameo | |
| 2011 | 2011 | Excalibur: The Legend of King Arthur | Tony Lee and Sam Hart | Comic Book | |||
| 2011 | 2011 | Dark Age of Camelot | Game | ||||
| 2011 | 2011 | Camelot | TV Show | English | |||
| 2013 | 2013 | Realm of Logres | Nesbit Hobbies | Game-Boardgame | American | Medieval Fantasy | |
| 2014 | November-December 2014 | The Once and Future King | Brian Sibley | Radio | T.H.White | ||
| 2014 | 2014 | Artus-Excalibur | Ivan Menchell and Frank Wildhorn | Musical | German | ||
| 2015 | 2015 | Arthur and Merlin | |||||
| 2017 | 2017 | Mordred | Film | Historical Fiction - Annales Cumbrae | |||
| 2017 | 2017 | King Arthur: Legend of the Sword | Film | English | |||
| 2017 | 2017 | Camelot/3000 | TV Show | ||||
| 2019 | 2019 | The Kid Who Would Be King | Film | English | |||
| 2019 | 2019 | Hellboy | Film | ||||
| 2020 | 2020 | Cursed | Netflix | TV Show | English | ||
| 2021 | 2021 | Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the Scoob | Animated Film | Cameo | |||
| 2021 | 2021 | Arthur & Merlin: Knights of Camelot | Film | English | |||
| 2021 | 2021 | Legends of Camelot | Jacqueline Rayner | Novel | |||
| 2021 | 2021 | The Green Knight |
See Also[]
External Sites
- List of Texts: https://mythbank.com/list-of-arthurian-texts-ancient-and-modern/
- List of Books https://mythbank.com/king-arthur-books/
- List of Resources: https://mythbank.com/list-of-the-best-arthurian-resources/
- Epic List of Media: http://camelotismy.home.blog on their Google spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Qy3x2etcF5pGd-W_fmBH4Hl3aYNtFQur/edit?gid=1441222671#gid=1441222671