Stories of King Arthur and His Knights

Stories of King Arthur and His Knights, by U.

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Title: Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"
Author: U. Waldo Cutler

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STORIES OF KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS
Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"
by
U. WALDO CUTLER

[Frontispiece: King Arthur]

The goodliest fellowship of famous knights Whereof this world holds record. TENNYSON

George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. London ---- Bombay ---- Sydney
First published January 1905 by GEORGE G. HARRAP & COMPANY 39-41 Parker Street, Kingsway, London, W.C.,
Reprinted: December 1905; July 1906; May 1907; January 1909; September 1909; July 1910; July 1911; October 1912; October 1913; March 1915; February 1917; August 1917; May 1918; October 1919; June 1920; October 1921; October 1922; June 1923; January 1925; April 1936; September 1927; October 1928; January 1930; January 1931; April 1932

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER
I.
OF THE BIRTH OF KING ARTHUR II. UTHER'S SON, RIGHTWISE KING OF ALL ENGLAND III. HOW ARTHUR GAT HIS SWORD EXCALIBUR IV. BALIN AND BALAN V. THE NOBLE ORDER OF THE ROUND TABLE VI. THE LADIES' KNIGHT VII. WISE MERLIN'S FOOLISHNESS VIII. A STAG-HUNT AND WHAT CAME OF IT IX. THE TREACHERY OF MORGAN LE FAY X. SIR LAUNCELOT OF THE LAKE XI. A NIGHT-TIME ADVENTURE OF SIR LAUNCELOT XII. HOW SIR LAUNCELOT CAME INTO THE CHAPEL PERILOUS XIII. THE KNIGHT, THE LADY, AND THE FALCON XIV. HOW A KITCHEN-PAGE CAME TO HONOUR XV. HOW SIR GARETH FOUGHT FOR THE LADY OF CASTLE PERILOUS XVI. HOW SIR GARETH RETURNED TO THE COURT OF KING ARTHUR XVII. HOW YOUNG TRISTRAM SAVED THE LIFE OF THE QUEEN OF LYONESSE XVIII. SIR TRISTRAM'S FIRST BATTLE XIX. SIR TRISTRAM AND THE FAIR ISOUD XX. HOW SIR TRISTRAM DEMANDED THE FAIR ISOUD FOR KING MARK, AND HOW SIR TRISTRAM AND ISOUD DRANK THE LOVE POTION XXI. HOW SIR TRISTRAM DEPARTED FROM TINTAGIL, AND WAS LONG IN THE FOREST XXII. HOW KING MARK WAS SORRY FOR THE GOOD RENOWN OF SIR TRISTRAM XXIII. HOW SIR PERCIVALE OF GALIS SOUGHT AND FOUND SIR LAUNCELOT XXIV. OF THE COMING OF SIR GALAHAD XXV. HOW THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL WAS BEGUN XXVI. HOW GALAHAD GAT HIM A SHIELD XXVII. SIR GALAHAD AT THE CASTLE OF MAIDENS XXVIII. SIR LAUNCELOT'S REPENTANCE XXIX. SIR PERCIVALE'S TEMPTATION XXX. THE VICTORY OF SIR BORS OVER HIMSELF XXXI. HOW SIR LAUNCELOT FOUND THE HOLY GRAIL XXXII. THE END OF THE QUEST XXXIII. SIR LAUNCELOT AND THE FAIR MAID OF ASTOLAT XXXIV. OF THE GREAT TOURNAMENT ON CANDLEMAS DAY XXXV. QUEEN GUENEVER'S MAY-DAY RIDE AND WHAT CAME OF IT XXXVI. OF THE PLOT AGAINST SIR LAUNCELOT XXXVII. HOW SIR LAUNCELOT DEPARTED FROM THE KING AND FROM JOYOUS GARD XXXVIII. HOW KING ARTHUR AND SIR GAWAINE INVADED SIR LAUNCELOT'S REALM XXXIX. OF SIR MORDRED'S TREASON XL. OF ARTHUR'S LAST GREAT BATTLE IN THE WEST XLI. OF THE PASSING OF KING ARTHUR XLII. OF THE END OF THIS BOOK

ILLUSTRATIONS
KING ARTHUR . . . . . . . . . . . . (W. B. Margetson) Frontispiece
THE DEDICATION . . . . . . . . . . . (J. Pettie, R.A.)
MERLIN AND NIMUE . . . . . . . . . . (Burne-Jones)
SIR TRISTRAM AND THE FAIR ISOUD . . (D. G. Rosetti)
SIR GALAHAD . . . . . . . . . . . . (G. F. Watts)
SIR LAUNCELOT AT THE CROSS . . . . . (Stella Langdale)
ELAINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (J. M. Strudwick)
THE PASSING OF ARTHUR . . . . . . . (Stella Langdale)

"We have from the kind Creator a variety of mental powers, to which we must not neglect giving their proper culture in our earliest years, and which cannot be cultivated either by logic or metaphysics, Latin or Greek. We have an imagination, before which, since it should not seize upon the very first conceptions that chance to present themselves, we ought to place the fittest and most beautiful images, and thus accustom and practise the mind to recognise and love the beautiful everywhere."
Quoted from Wieland by Goethe in his Autobiography

Introduction
Among the best liked stories of five or six hundred years ago were those which told of chivalrous deeds--of joust and tourney and knightly adventure. To be sure,