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Siege of York--The Battles of Celidon Forest
and Badon Hill--King Arthur drives the Saxons from the Realm--The Embassy from
Rome--The King rescues Merlin--The Knight of the Fountain
CHAPTER IV
King Arthur conquers Ireland and Norway--Slays the Giant of St. Michael's Mount and
conquers Gaul--King Ryence's Insolent Message--The Damsel and the Sword--The Lady
of the Lake--The Adventures of Sir Balin
CHAPTER V
Sir Balin kills Sir Lancear--The Sullen Knight--The Knight Invisible is killed--Sir Balin
smites the Dolorous Stroke, and fights with his brother Sir Balan

CHAPTER VI
The Marriage of King Arthur and Guinevere--The Coronation of the Queen--The
Founding of the Round Table--The Quest of the White Hart--The Adventures of Sir
Gawain--The Quest of the White Hound--Sir Tor kills Abellius--The Adventures of Sir
Pellinore--The Death of Sir Hantzlake--Merlin saves King Arthur
CHAPTER VII
King Arthur and Sir Accolon of Gaul are entrapped by Sir Damas--They fight each other
through Enchantment of Queen Morgan le Fay--Sir Damas is compelled to surrender all
his Lands to Sir Outzlake his Brother their Rightful Owner--Queen Morgan essays to kill
King Arthur with a Magic Garment--Her Damsel is compelled to wear it and is thereby
burned to Cinders
CHAPTER VIII
A Second Embassy from Rome--King Arthur's Answer--The Emperor assembles his
Armies--King Arthur slays the Emperor--Sir Gawain and Sir Prianius--The Lombards are
defeated--King Arthur crowned at Rome
CHAPTER IX
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot--He and his Cousin Sir Lionel set forth--The Four
Witch-Queens--King Bagdemagus--Sir Lancelot slays Sir Turquine and delivers his
Captive Knights--The Foul Knight--Sir Gaunter attacks Sir Lancelot--The Four
Knights--Sir Lancelot comes to the Chapel Perilous--Ellawes the Sorceress--The Lady
and the Falcon--Sir Bedivere and the Dead Lady
CHAPTER X
Beaumains is made a Kitchen Page by Sir Key--He claims the Adventure of the Damsel
Linet--He fights with Sir Lancelot and is knighted by him in his True Name of Gareth--Is
flouted by the Damsel Linet--But overthrows all Knights he meets and sends them to
King Arthur's Court--He delivers the Lady Lyones from the Knight of the Redlands--The
Tournament before Castle Perilous--Marriage of Sir Gareth and the Lady Lyones
CHAPTER XI
The Adventures of Sir Tristram--His Stepmother--He is knighted--Fights with Sir
Marhaus--Sir Palomedes and La Belle Isault--Sir Bleoberis and Sir Segwarides--Sir
Tristram's Quest--His Return--The Castle Pluere--Sir Brewnor is slain--Sir Kay
Hedius--La Belle Isault's Hound--Sir Dinedan refuses to fight--Sir Pellinore follows Sir
Tristram--Sir Brewse-without-pity--The Tournament at the Maiden's Castle--Sir
Palomedes and Sir Tristram

CHAPTER XII
Merlin is bewitched by a Damsel of the Lady of the Lake--Galahad knighted by Sir
Lancelot--The Perilous Seat--The Marvellous Sword--Sir Galahad in the Perilous
Seat--The Sangreal--The Knights vow themselves to its Quest--The Shield of the White
Knight--The Fiend of the Tomb--Sir Galahad at the Maiden's Castle--The Sick Knight
and the Sangreal--Sir Lancelot declared unworthy to find the Holy Vessel--Sir Percival
seeks Sir Galahad--The Black Steed--Sir Bors and the Hermit--Sir Pridan le Noir--Sir
Lionel's Anger--He meets Sir Percival--The ship "Faith"--Sir Galahad and Earl
Hernox--The Leprous Lady--Sir Galahad discloses himself to Sir Lancelot--They
part--The Blind King Evelake--Sir Galahad finds the Sangreal--His Death
CHAPTER XIII
The Queen quarrels with Sir Lancelot--She is accused of Murder--Her Champion proves
her innocence--The Tourney at Camelot--Sir Lancelot in the Tourney--Sir Baldwin the
Knight-Hermit--Elaine, the Maid of Astolat, seeks for Sir Lancelot--She tends his
Wounds--Her Death--The Queen and Sir Lancelot are reconciled
CHAPTER XIV
Sir Lancelot attacked by Sir Agravaine, Sir Modred, and thirteen other Knights--He slays
them all but Sir Modred--He leaves the Court--Sir Modred accuses him to the King--The
Queen condemned to be burnt--Her rescue by Sir Lancelot and flight with him--The War
between Sir Lancelot and the King--The Enmity of Sir Gawain--The Usurpation of Sir
Modred--The Queen retires to a Nunnery--Sir Lancelot goes on Pilgrimage--The Battle of
Barham Downs--Sir Bedivere and the Sword Excalibur--The Death of King Arthur

ILLUSTRATOR'S NOTE
Of scenes from the Legends of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table many
lovely pictures have been painted, showing much diversity of figures and surroundings,
some being definitely sixth-century British or Saxon, as in Blair Leighton's fine painting
of the dead Elaine; others--for example, Watts' Sir Galahad--show knight and charger in
fifteenth-century armour; while the warriors of Burne Jones wear strangely impracticable
armour of some mystic period. Each of these painters was free to follow his own
conception, putting the figures into whatever period most appealed to his imagination; for
he was not illustrating the actual tales written by Sir Thomas Malory, otherwise he would
have found himself face to face with a difficulty.
King Arthur and his knights fought, endured, and toiled in the sixth century, when the
Saxons were overrunning Britain; but their achievements were not chronicled by Sir
Thomas Malory until late in the fifteenth century.
Sir Thomas, as Froissart has done before him, described the habits of life, the dresses,

weapons, and armour that his own eyes looked upon in the every-day scenes