BIBLIOGRAPHY
[The following list comprises only a brief selection of books likely to be of most use and interest to the English reader. Welsh, French and German authorities are left entirely out of account.]
Six Old English Chronicles. Translated by J. A. Giles. Bohn’s Series. (Contains useful translations of Gildas, Nennius, and Geoffrey of Monmouth.)
Geoffrey of Monmouth. History of the Kings of Britain, translated by Dr Sebastian Evans. The Temple Classics (Dent).
The Four Ancient Books of Wales. Edited, with translations, by Dr W. F. Skene. Edinburgh, 1868.
The Mabinogion. Translated by Lady Charlotte Guest. The best popular edition is that of A. Nutt, and is especially valuable for his critical notes at the end.
Layamon’s Brut. Edited by Sir F. Madden. 3 vols. London, 1847.
Malory’s Morte Darthur. Edited, in 3 vols., by H. O. Sommer (Nutt).
—— With introduction by Sir J. Rhys (Dent).
—— Edited, with introduction, by Sir E. Strachey (Macmillan—Globe Series).
Dickinson, W. H. King Arthur in Cornwall.
Fletcher, R. H. The Arthurian Matter in the Chronicles (Harvard Studies and Notes, 1906).
Maccallum, M. W. Tennyson’s Idylls and Arthurian Story.
Newell, W. W. King Arthur and the Table Round. Boston, 1897. (Contains excellent summaries of Chrétien de Troyes poems.)
Nutt, Alfred. Celtic and Mediæval Romance. (Popular Studies in Mythology and Folklore.)
—— Legends of the Holy Grail. (Popular Studies, etc.)
—— Studies in the Legend of the Holy Grail (1888).
Rhys, Sir John. The Arthurian Legend (1891).
—— Celtic Folklore (1901).
Schofield, W. H. English Literature, from the Norman Conquest to Chaucer.
Squire, Charles. The Mythology of the British Islands.
Stephens, Thomas. The Literature of the Kymry (1872).
Weston, Jessie L. King Arthur and his Knights. (Popular Studies in Mythology and Folklore.)
—— The Legend of Sir Gawain (1897), and other works included in Nutt’s ‘Grimm Library’.