Arthurian Legends

[Anonymous No.16137565]

Which works are best to get into arthurian legends?

There are quite a few authors that worked with the material, but I'd like to read the stories that really spawned what we know as arthurian legends today.

I know that Chretien de Troyes wrote some stuff, but it seems like most of it is "complementary" material.

[Anonymous No.16137589]

>>16137565
Sir Gawain fanfic is pretty dope

[Anonymous No.16137614]

Le Morte d'Arthur

[Anonymous No.16137927]

>>16137565
Chretien de Troyes -- Erec and Enide, Lancelot, Perceval, and Yvain.

Thomas Malory -- Le Morte d'Arthur

Wolfram von Eschenbach -- Parzival

Gottfried von Strassburg -- Tristan

Hartmann von Aue -- Erec, Iwein

[Anonymous No.16138027]

>>16137927
These, plus

- The lais of Marie de France
- The Mabinogion
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Der arme Heinrich from Hartmann von Aue
- And if you're really hardcore, Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet

[Anonymous No.16138510]

>>16137565
The mystery of the grail by julius evola

[Anonymous No.16138524]

>>16137565
Start with Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach, some of the other medieval legends like Tristan und Isolde, then move on to the French and English legends.

But Parzival is the real esoteric core.

[Anonymous No.16138599]

>continental Arthurian "legends"

[Anonymous No.16139794]

>>16137565
The Lancelot-Grail aka Vulgate Cycle

[Anonymous No.16140285]

>>16138524
>ah yes! Time to finally start reading Eschenbach's Parzival
>open's book
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[Anonymous No.16141344]

Bun

[Anonymous No.16141557]

>>16137565
Try Merlin and The Grail. It's based on little bit older material(or at least so it seems) than Mallory's The Death of Arthur, and doesn't feature some of the elements that were added to it later, but it's readable and not excessively long, so if you'll find the whole topic uninteresting after all you won't waste much time. If you'll like it then go for Mallory.

Avoid more modern compilations like "Once and Future King", they're trash.

>>16138599
Welsh didn't even write down a complete Arthurian cycle, the few Arthurian stories that were preserved are of questionable relation to the cycle itself as well - Peredur son of Efrawg may have been influenced by continental stories, the dating isn't certain, Culhwch and Olwen is almost certainly a very old Celtic myth reframed into Arthurian terms and so on.

[Anonymous No.16141602]

>>16141557
>Avoid The Once and Future King

You shut your whore mouth.