Le Morte d'Arthur, Volume 1

What it's about

The sword in the stone, Merlin, the Round Table, Lancelot's first adventures and the beginning of Tristram — the first nine books of Malory's great gathering of the Arthurian legends, as Caxton printed it in 1485.

Who it's for

- Anyone who knows Arthur from films and wants the source - Readers of Tolkien and Lewis, who both grew up on it - Good read aloud, a chapter at a time

What’s inside

1. Book I
   CHAPTER I. First, How Uther Pendragon sent for the duke of Cornwall and Igraine his wife, and of their departing suddenly again.

   3 min
2. CHAPTER II. How Uther Pendragon made war on the duke of Cornwall, and how by the mean of Merlin he lay by the duchess and gat Arthur.

   3 min
3. CHAPTER III. Of the birth of King Arthur and of his nurture.

   2 min
4. CHAPTER IV. Of the death of King Uther Pendragon.

   2 min
5. CHAPTER V. How Arthur was chosen king, and of wonders and marvels of a sword taken out of a stone by the said Arthur.

   4 min
6. CHAPTER VI. How King Arthur pulled out the sword divers times.

   3 min
7. CHAPTER VII. How King Arthur was crowned, and how he made officers.

   2 min
8. CHAPTER VIII. How King Arthur held in Wales, at a Pentecost, a great feast, and what kings and lords came to his feast.

   3 min
9. CHAPTER IX. Of the first war that King Arthur had, and how he won the field.

   2 min
10. CHAPTER X. How Merlin counselled King Arthur to send for King Ban and King Bors, and of their counsel taken for the war.

    5 min
11. CHAPTER XI. Of a great tourney made by King Arthur and the two kings Ban and Bors, and how they went over the sea.

    4 min
12. CHAPTER XII. How eleven kings gathered a great host against King Arthur.

    2 min
13. CHAPTER XIII. Of a dream of the King with the Hundred Knights.

    1 min
14. CHAPTER XIV. How the eleven kings with their host fought against Arthur and his host, and many great feats of the war.

    5 min
15. CHAPTER XV. Yet of the same battle.

    4 min
16. CHAPTER XVI. Yet more of the same battle.

    5 min
17. CHAPTER XVII. Yet more of the same battle, and how it was ended by Merlin.

    5 min
18. CHAPTER XVIII. How King Arthur, King Ban, and King Bors rescued King Leodegrance, and other incidents.

    3 min
19. CHAPTER XIX. How King Arthur rode to Carlion, and of his dream, and how he saw the questing beast.

    3 min
20. CHAPTER XX. How King Pellinore took Arthur’s horse and followed the Questing Beast, and how Merlin met with Arthur.

    3 min
21. CHAPTER XXI. How Ulfius impeached Queen Igraine, Arthur’s mother, of treason; and how a knight came and desired to have the death of his master revenged.

    2 min
22. CHAPTER XXII. How Griflet was made knight, and jousted with a knight.

    2 min
23. CHAPTER XXIII. How twelve knights came from Rome and asked truage for this land of Arthur, and how Arthur fought with a knight.

    5 min
24. CHAPTER XXIV. How Merlin saved Arthur’s life, and threw an enchantment on King Pellinore and made him to sleep.

    1 min

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