[norton]

Got a reading list??

Same for number 40.

Thanks

[Wombat101]

Okay, ran through my bookcases for ya and came up with the following:

Norma L. Goorich: The Holy Grail
King Arthur
Merlin
Geoffrey Ashe: The Discovery of King Arthur
Bromwich/Jarman/Roberts:
Arthur of the Welsh
Ifor Williams: Lectures on Early Welsh Poetry
P.K. Ford: The Mabinogi
J. Morris: Nennius: British History and the Welsh
Annals
Geofrrey of Monmouth:
History of the Kings of Britain
Bromwich/Evans: Cullwch and Olwen, A Study of the Earliest
Arthurian Tales
PFJ Turner: The Real King Arthur, Post Roman Brittania

And just for fun:
Bernard Cornwell: The WInter King
Excalibur
Enemy of God

As you can see, I've always been pretty much obsessed by this subject...lol

[Wombat101]

Okay, ran through my bookcases for ya and came up with the following:

Norma L. Goorich: The Holy Grail
King Arthur
Merlin
Geoffrey Ashe: The Discovery of King Arthur
Bromwich/Jarman/Roberts:
Arthur of the Welsh
Ifor Williams: Lectures on Early Welsh Poetry
P.K. Ford: The Mabinogi
J. Morris: Nennius: British History and the Welsh
Annals
Geofrrey of Monmouth:
History of the Kings of Britain
Bromwich/Evans: Cullwch and Olwen, A Study of the Earliest
Arthurian Tales
PFJ Turner: The Real King Arthur, Post Roman Brittania

And just for fun:
Bernard Cornwell: The WInter King
Excalibur
Enemy of God

As you can see, I've always been pretty much obsessed by this subject...lol

[Wombat101]

As for Robin Hood, I haven't actually gone as far as to research it. The only I can tell you for sure is that Maid Marian is an invention, and is based upon a tale told in the Low-Countries about a farm girl who gets sweet talked into going to the big city. She narrowly avoids rape, and manages to get home, where she never leaves her farm again.

Sometime during the 11th-13th century when the tale of Robin Hood was being told, it was apparently decided that Robin needed a love interest, up sprang Maid Marian in different guise. I can honetsly tell you that I forget just where I heard/read that.