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Arthur, the rightful king   It was a dark and stormy night at Tintagel , so the old tales tell, the night that Ygerne gave birth to Arthur and Merlin spirited him away......   read more

Atlantis, the Lost Land   A very convincing and original theory concerning the location of Atlantis.......read more

 Lundy, Isle of Avalon by Les Still  The Avalon of later Arthurian legends was known as Annwn to the earlier Celts. "Various hills and islands are access to Annwn. An Otherworld or underworld of Welsh legend, one of the many survivals from pagan Celtic Mythology. The most important hill is Glastonbury, the most important island is Lundy" .......read more

Stonehenge Around 2000 BC, when the priests in Babylon were conducting, and recording, their observations of the celestial bodies, the building of the first phase of Stonehenge was begun.  Over the next six hundred years a series of successive structures were erected and Stonehenge as we know it finally arose around 1400 BC. ...read more

The Knights Templar  by Les Still. Sometime between 1110 and 1120, in the aftermath of the First Crusade, a small group of knights  vowed to devote their lives to the protection of pilgrims in the Holy Land. They were called the 'Order of the Poor Knights of Christ.' The King of Jerusalem, Baldwin II, granted them the use of a captured mosque built on Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the site of the ancient Temple of Solomon. From this they became known as the Knights Templar. Under the patronage of St. Bernard of Clairvaux the Order received papal sanction and legitimacy. The Knights Templar were granted permission by the pope to wear a distinctive white robe with a red cross. ... read more

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Arthurian and other Texts   for your further reading

Alfred, Lord Tennyson - The Idylls of the King  The Victorian poet, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, based his twelve poem 'Idylls of the King' (1859-85) on the Morte D'Arthur ....read the full text here .....download in pdf eBook format

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Gildas De Excidio Britonum   This book is the only substantial source which survives from the time of the Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain and is the only contemporary Arthurian source that can be examined today ......read the full text here .....download in pdf eBook format

Le Morte D'Arthur - Thomas Malory    Edited and first published by William Caxton in 1485, Sir Thomas Malory's unique and splendid version of the Arthurian legend tells an immortal story of love, adventure, chivalry, treachery, and death......read the full text here .....download in pdf eBook format  Buy Le Morte D'Arthur Audiobook

The Internet Archive has a FREE, and very good, audio version here....Le Morte d'Arthur Volume One   Volume 2

The Mabinogion is a collection of Welsh folk tales, the earliest extant copy of which dates from the thirteenth century. However much of the material is considerably older with the four stories of the first group recording memories of ancient Celtic mythology ...read the full text here .....download in pdf eBook format

Nennius    The Historia Brittonum has been the centre of many controversies as to its date and origin. As set forth in Theodor Mommsen’s edition, it consists of the following tracts, which together form what has been called Volumen Britanniae, or the Book of Britain: .... read more

Perlesvaus    The anonymous 'Perlesvaus' (entitled ‘The High History of the Holy Grail’ by Sebastian Evans in his translation) is believed to have been composed on the continent of Europe, circa 1220-1230, as a continuation of Chretien DeTroyes' unfinished work "Perceval, or the Knight of the Grail".  This romance is rather more mystical in tone than its predecessors although the basic events remain the same. ...read the full text here  .....download in pdf eBook format

Sir Gawain and the Green knight - Jesse Weston  Brave, chivalrous, loyally faithful to his plighted word, scrupulously heedful of his own and others' honour, Gawain stands before us in this poem.  ....read the full text here .....download in pdf eBook format

Other

Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered by Norman Lockyer  With this pioneering work on Stonehenge in the late 19th century Sir Norman Lockyer brought this and other megalithic monuments under scrutiny.  read the full text here

The Twelve Labours of Hercules    Hercules was the son of Zeus, but he was born into the family of a mortal king. ....read the full text here

Timaeus by Plato - In which the author introduces the world to Atlantis, and more...read the full text here