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Title: Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion

Author: Beatrice Clay

Release Date: April 5, 2005 [EBook #15551]

Language: English

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_The_ KINGS TREASURIES OF LITERATURE

GENERAL EDITOR
SIR A.T. QUILLER COUCH

[Illustration: THE LADY OF THE LAKE TELLETH ARTHUR
OF THE SWORD EXCALIBUR]

NEW YORK--E.P. DUTTON & COMPANY

[Illustration: FIRST AND CHIEF OF ALL THE
THREE BEST MOST CHRISTIAN
AND WORTHY, KING ARTHUR]

STORIES FROM LE MORTE D'ARTHUR
AND THE MABINOGION

RETOLD BY
BEATRICE CLAY

LONDON & TORONTO--J.M. DENT & SONS Ltd.

SOLE AGENT FOR SCOTLAND
THE GRANT EDUCATIONAL CO. LTD.
GLASGOW

FIRST EDITION, 1920
REPRINTED, 1922, 1924

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

BOOK I.--THE COMING OF ARTHUR

I. OF ARTHUR'S BIRTH; AND HOW HE BECAME KING
II. THE ROUND TABLE
III. OF THE FINDING OF EXCALIBUR
IV. OF THE TREACHERY OF QUEEN MORGAN LE FAY
V. HOW THE SCABBARD OF EXCALIBUR WAS LOST
VI. MERLIN
VII. BALIN AND BALAN

BOOK II.--SIR LAUNCELOT

VIII. SIR LAUNCELOT DU LAC
IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE CHAPEL PERILOUS
X. SIR LAUNCELOT AND THE FALCON

BOOK III.--SIR TRISTRAM

XI. OF THE BIRTH OF ST. TRISTRAM
XII. HOW TRISTRAM FOUGHT WITH SIR MARHAUS OF IRELAND
XIII. THE FAIR ISOLT
XIV. HOW KING MARK SENT SIR TRISTRAM TO FETCH HIM A WIFE
XV. HOW SIR TRISTRAM AND THE FAIR ISOLT DRANK OF THE MAGIC POTION
XVI. OF THE END OF SIR TRISTRAM

BOOK IV.--KING ARTHUR'S NEPHEWS

XVII. SIR GAWAIN AND THE LADY
XVIII. THE ADVENTURES OF SIR GARETH

BOOK V.--SIR GERAINT

XIX. THE ADVENTURES OF GERAINT
XX. GERAINT AND ENID

BOOK VI.--THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN

XXI. THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN

BOOK VII.--SIR PEREDUR

XXII. THE ADVENTURES OF SIR PEREDUR

BOOK VIII.--THE HOLY GRAIL

XXIII