Class Texts and Notes
- Character Notes
- Excalibur
- Howard Pyle's "The Winning of Knighthood"
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight * Questions
- The Lady of Shalott
- T.H. White's Sword in the Stone
- The Thirteen Treasures of Britain
- Arthur Quizlet
- Arthur Blooket
The Movie Excalibur
Anáil nathrach, ortha bháis is beatha, do chéal déanaimh
Try and note these things while watching the movie:
* Why is Merlin willing to help Uther Pendragon in his quest to attain
Ygraine?
* How do we first know that Morgana (also known as Morgan le Fay) has
extranormal powers?
* Where does the sword come from? How does it get driven into the stone?
* Who is for Arthur when he pulls the sword from the stone?
NOTE - Merlin says, "You will be the land and the land will be you;
if you fail, the land will perish; as you thrive, the land will blossom."
This is heavy symbolism and foreshadowing for the movie. Take some time
to understand the king's relationship to nature and the actual land of
England.
* What is the dragon?
* Who knights Arthur?
* What is Arthur's weakness (found in the fight between Lancelot and him)?
* Of what does Merlin warn Arthur before he marries Guenevere?
* Who is the young man who follows Lancelot to Camelot?
* Of what crime is Lancelot and Guenevere are accused?
* Why doesn't Arthur champion Guenevere?
NOTE - to understand the sword going through Merlin, you need to know what the dragon is, since Merlin is becoming the dragon at the time.
* Why is the land withering?
* What does Arthur send the knights to get?
* Who is successful in that quest?
* What has become of Lancelot?
* What has become of Guenevere?
* Who is Mordred?
* What happens to Morgana?
* What happens after the Lady of the Lake gets the sword?
The Knights of the Round Table
There are so many stories and versions that the names of the knights grows and grows with each re-telling. Some are more famous than others. A drachma if you find one that is not on this list (careful, you may find an alternative spelling of one already on the list).
Ablamor of the Marsh
Accolon of Gaul
Aglovale
Agravaine (betrayer of Launcelot)
Aliduke
Alisander
Allardin of the Isles
Andred
Anguish, King of Ireland
Aristause
Arrok de Grevaunt
Astamor
Bagdemagus, King
Balin
Barant Les Apres (King of the Hundred Knights)
Baudwin
Bedivere
Bellangere le Beuse
Bellangere le Orgulous
Belleus of the Pavilion
Berel
Bernlad De Hautdesert (magical Green Knight)
Blamore
Bleoberis
Bohort (Son of King Arthur)
Bors de Ganis
Brandiles
Breunis Sans Pite
Brunor le Noir
Brian of the Forest
Cador of Cornwall
Cardok
Carados, King of Scotland
Chaleins of Clarance
Chestelaine
Clairemonde
Clarance of Northumberland
Clarrus of Cleremont
Clegis
Cloddis
Colgrevance
Curselaine
Dagonet (Arthur’s Court Jester)
Damas
Darras
Degrane Saunce Velany
Degrevaunt
Dinadan
Dinas
Dinas le Seneschal of Cornwall
Dodinas le Savage
Durnore
Driant
Ebel
Ector de Maris
Edward of Carnavon
Edward of Orkney
Edward the Knight Perilous
Elias
Epinogris
Erec
Erminide
Ewaine
Feldenak
Felot of Langdue
Fergus
Florence
Floridas
Gahalatine
Gaheris
Gainus
Galagers
Galahad
Galahad the Haut Prince
Galeshin
Galihodin
Galihud
Galleron of Galway
Gareth of Orkney (Knight of Many Colors)
Garlon (Invisible Knight)
Gaunter
Gawaine
Gilbert
Gillemere
Gingalin
Gouvernail (Tristram’s Squire)
Girflet
Gringamore
Gromere
Gromore Somir Joure
Guinglain the Fair Unkown
Guyart le Petite
Harry le Fise Lake
Hebes
Hebes le Renoumes
Hector
Helaine le Blank
Helior le Preuse
Helius
Herlen
Hervise de la Forest Savage
Hervise de Revel
Hoel
Hontzlake o’ Wentland
Hue the Knight Perilous
Ider
Ironside (Noble Red Knight of the Red Lands)
Kay (Arthur’s seneschal)
Kay de Stranges
Kehydius
King of the Lake
Lambaile
Lambegus
Lamiel of Cardiff
Lamorak
Lanceor
Ladinuas of the Forest Savage
Launcelot du lake
Lavaine
Lionel
Lovel
Lucan de Butler
Mador de la Porte
Managgen
Marhaus
Mark, King
Marrok
Meleagrance
Melias
Melion of the Mountain
Meliot de Logris
Melleaus de Lile
Menaduke
Miles of the Lands
Mordred
Morganore
Morholt
Morien
Naram
Nentres, King of Garloth
Nerovens
Ontzlake
Orzanna le Cure Hardy
Palomides the Saracen
Patrice of Ireland
Pelleas
King Pelles
King Pellimore (Knight of the Questing Beast)
Percard (Knight of the Black Lawns)
Percival (the Grail Knight)
Perimones (Red Knight)
Persante of Inde (Blue Knight)
Persides
Pertilope (Green Knight)
Petipase of Winchelsea
Phelot
Pinel le Savage
Plaine de Fors
Plenorius
Priamus the Saracen
Prince Valiant
Reynold
Sadok
Safere
Sagramour le Desirous
Sarlons
Segwarides
Selises of the Delorous Tower
Sentraile
Servause le Breuse
Suppinabilis
Tegyr the CupbearerS
Tor
Trantrist o’ the White
Tristram of Lyoness
Turquine
Ulbause
Ulfius
Uriens, King of Gore
Urre
Uwaine le Blanche Mains
Uwaine les Avoutres
Villiars the Valiant
Wisshard
Yvain
Yvain the Bastard
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The Knights of the Round Table Assignment
We are going to begin the process of detailing EVERY knight of the Round Table.
You will find directions and details here:
Knight of the Round Table Assignment
If the assignment is labled a different year or if there are no editing rights given, be the first to report it to Mr. Alford and get Drachma.
Arthurian Bestiary
A bestiary was a genre of literature in the Middle Ages that was a collection of animals and their descriptions. Usually the description included a moral lesson to be learned from the animal.
We are going to create our own (moral lessons and all) based on creatures that appear in various King Arthur stories (and stories with characters related to King Arthur).
If the assignment is labled a different year or if there are no editing rights given, be the first to report it to Mr. Alford and get Drachma.
