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I did!!! I made a gifset for every arthurian tv show that I am aware of! 

You can find them at this tag. (a couple are in the queue, Runaways, The Campaign for Camelot and some King Arthur anime)

Also, I am almost finished watching all arthurian shows! The ones in bold are the ones I watched or I am watching.

Each one of them is tagged to the tag I use in this blog

Arthur et les enfantes de la Table Ronde (2018-2019) watching Runaways (2017 -2019) Fate/Apocrypha (2017-2018) Trollhunters Tales of Arcadia (2016-2018) The Librarians (2014-2018) Nanatsu no Tazai (2014) watching Merlin (2012) Camelot (2011) House of Anubis (2010-2011) Once Upon a Time (2011-2018) Merlin (2008-2012) Merlin’s Apprentice (2006) Fate/Stay Night and Fate/Zero (2006-2012) King Arthur’s Disasters (2005-2006) Kaamelott (2005-2009) Stargate SG-1 S09-10 (2005-2007) Sir Gadabout: the worst knight in the land (2002-2003) Guinevere Jones (2002) The Mists of Avalon (2001) Merlin (1998) Il Cuore e la Spada (1998) Blazing Dragons (1996-1998) Gwenevere and the Jewel Rider (1995-1996) King Arhur and the Knights of Justice (1992-1993) The Legend of Prince Valiant (1991-1993) watching DW Battlefield 1989 Alias the Jester (1985-1986) Mr. Merlin (1981-1982) abandoned Merlin (1980) I watched it but I don’t know German! King Arthur: Prince on the White Horse King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table (1979-1980) watching The Boy Merlin (1979) The Legend of King Arthur (1979) Arthur of the Britons (1972-1973) Arthur and the Square Knights of the Round Table (1966-1968) watched the episodes that I managed to find The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956) The Adventures of Sir Galahad (1949)  WEBSERIES

I made a list of arthurian tv shows and webseries that I know about or I have watched, divided by main characters. I’ve been maybe a bit generous with characters in some tv shows where the characters were protagonists only in a part of the series (an episode or a season).

I added a * for shows that I DID NOT watch, so they are in the list because of imdb and which characters were mainly listed there, or because of the plot summary I found.

AGRAVAINE The Legend of King Arthur 1979 (sort of) Robin of Sherwood 1984 s03e04

ARTHUR The Adventures of Sir Lancelot 1956 Arthur! and the Square Knights of the Round Table 1966 Arthur of the Britons 1972 Carry on Laughing 1975 s02e01 and s02e04* The Legend of King Arthur 1979 King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (anime) 1979 King Arthur: Prince on White Horse (anime) 1980* MacGyver 1985 s07e07-e08 Bill & Ted Excellent Adventures (Live Action) 1992 s01e01* Prince Valiant 1993 Blazing Dragons 1996* Merlin 1998 The Mists of Avalon 2001 Sir Gadabout, the Worst Knight in the Land 2002* Kaamelott 2005 King Arthur’s Disasters 2005 Fate/Stay Night 2006 Merlin BBC 2008 Fate/Zero 2010 Once Upon a Time 2011 Camelot 2011 Merlin: L’enchanteur désenchanté" and “Le secret de Brocéliande” 2012 Nanatsu no Tazai 2014 Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works 2014* Rex 2015 (webseries) Legend 2017 (webseries) Arthur et les enfants de la Table Ronde 2018*

BAN (KING) Nanatsu no Tazai 2014

BEDIVERE Blazing Dragons 1996* The Campaign for Camelot (webseries) 2018

Women of Guinevere Jones: Guinevere Jones

MERLIN We all have many lifetimes. We first met when you were Arthur’s queen. Your destiny is magic, Guinevere. Your task is to fight evil. GUINEVERE I told you, my name is Gwen.

Gwen is a teenager living in Melbourne. She finds out she is the reincarnation of Guinevere, King Arthur’s wife and queen, and that now she has to accept Merlin’s help and learn magic to fight against the dark forces.

that book seems to be just like, gone?? like, it doesn't even have a legal deposit copy in the british library, let alone ANY listing anywhere else. but the thing that i did find when i googled it was this post of yours which mentions it (imagine how thrilled i was to find out you're still active on here!!!), so i was wondering if you or any arthuriana fans following you might know if this book still exists somewhere? bc ngl after spending a decade in both environments, i have more faith in tumblerinas than in academics when it comes to knowing where stuff is lmao

anyway thank you so much and i hope you have a wonderful day <3

Ohhh what I suspect is that "Merlin and the Sword of Avalon" has never been published! I think I mistakenly listed is as out and about, but from this link:

quote: Per introduction, "The following is an extract from [Merlin and the Sword of Avalon] which has been completely revised and expanded by Timlett to form a self-standing novella." Locus1 lists Merlin and the Sword of Avalon as an unpublished novel.

It looks like one of the short stories by Timlett (The rite of challenge) was an extract of this "Merlin and the Sword of Avalon" unpublished novel.

The date seems to be 1995.

While the book itself seems to be listed in 2002 it seems impossible to find:

In "A bibliography of modern arthuriana" by Ann Howey and S. Reimer the entry is the same (for the short story):

This bibliography only gets to 2000, so even if the novel was published it would not be there (and it is not).

Now... where I found that book to add... good question. The more likely answer is that someone added it on goodreads as at the time (to add books) I was checking sources like this mentioned bibliography and then I was searching arthurian keywords (ex. Avalon, Merlin) on goodreads.

i initially found his own website which according to the wayback machine used to be online in the 2000s and it had an order form for that book - it did cross my mind that maybe he never got to print it at all, but i kinda found that too tragic to be true (imagine if he was alive during the time of ebooks and online publishing... tbf he probably would've gotten less attention though)

If I read the wayback machine correctly, that still is from 2007? It also has "ISBN 0-9542638-2-0" associated with the book... so surely it must have been published and this is not just a case of someone selling a self printed book.

I am going to write my search step by step becasue i am writing while searching:

Tho when I search for ISBN 0-9542638-2-0 I don't find the Merlin book but "The Cauldron"... It looks like "The Cauldron" and Merlin have very similar ISBN:

ISBN 0-9542638-2-0 ISBN 0-9542638-1-2

Tho from this:

It looks like The Cauldron was published by "Imagination Forum" which only published four books between 2002 and 2003 all by Timlett:

So this was definitely a form of self-publishing.

When I go to the order form tho...

I still see four books but different one. The only different one is "The Seedbearers Saga" which is not present in this list where instead we have the "Merlin" book (and viceversa).

Not sure what this means because Seedbearers is an older saga (maybe this is a reprint with his own printing company).

I wonder if he was self publishing all these novels but no copies really circulated.

PART 2 of the list of arthurian novels (in the list there are at the moment 511 arthurian novels). PART 1 is here (1850- 1990) PART 3 is here (2006 - 2016) PART 4 is here (a tentative list of 2017 - 2020) the complete list is here (wordpress).

click to read the last update (22 april 2020) + (past updates)

Part 2 is the list of novels published between 1991 and 2005.   Novels in a series are separated from the others and numbered, placed in the chronological place of the year of publishing of the first book of the serie so it may happen that a novel published in 2010 but third in a serie started in 2000 will be placed here, in the second part of the list. More about the symbols I use can be found in the original post.

I’ve spent days and weeks (months, or, well, more than a year actually) to write the list so, please, if you want to use it link it from here (or with credits). Enjoy and feel free to reblog this post of the original post.

-THE LIST OF ARTHURIAN NOVELS PUBLISHED 1991-2005-

Pairing/s: Merlin x Britt Arthurs {King Arthur & Her Knights}

Genre/AU: AU!Reincarnation, Drama/Hurt, Romance

When I was younger I saw my daddy cry And curse at the wind He broke his own heart and I watched As he tried to reassemble it

It was the middle of the night when Britt found herself waking up to the noises of people screaming. She didn’t have to guess what was happening anymore, she knows it is her parents having a fight downstairs. Amidst the turmoil, Britt remained silent in her own bed and tried her best to block out sounds by putting her pillows over her ears.

The deafening sound of objects crashing against the walls could be heard and she found herself sitting up on the edge of her bed. Britt anxiously stared at the closed door, the sound of her own heartbeat banging against her ribcage ringing over her ears.

The fighting ceased. But the suffocating feeling in Britt’s heart remained. Unable to control herself any longer, she went out of her room and tried to go to her sister.

Her father was in the hallway, his face red with tears running down his face. In his hand was a large suitcase. He looked at her and opened his mouth as if he wants to say something to her.

Britt couldn’t remember what he said to her that night. She wasn’t even sure if he said anything to her at all. The only thing that she remembers is that night when he walked away from their family, he never once looked back.

(Stained glass window depicting Cadwaladr and his flag in Llandaff Cathedral, Charles Powell, 1919)

(King Arthur (top left), St Tewdrig, and St Cadwaladr, stained glass window in Llandaff Cathedral. Situated in the North Aisle, Charles Powell, 1919)

'The awen predicts they will make haste;

We shall have treasures, possessions, and peace

And broader leadership and lively leaders;

And after war, dwellings in every area;

Men fierce in fight-clamour, furious warriors,

Swift in attack, slow to leave defence-

Fighters that scatter foreigners as far as Caer Wair'

- the opening first lines of Armes Prydain

(Source: Vulgate Cycle - Story of Merlin)

So, The Mabinogion, also known as The Mabinogi (which is the more correct version), is a collection of eleven (sometimes 12 tales if you include The Tale of Taliesin but that was added later) mythological tales. The meaning of the title - Mabinogi - is beat translated into Boys' Tales, although it wasn't what they were named at the time they were written down, but by Lady Charlotte Guest when she first translated them. Two copies of the Mabinogi exist - The White Book of Rhydderch and The Red Book of Hergest - and the two are thought to descend from a common ancestor (now lost, sadly.)

Now, the main tales are The Four Branches of The Mabinogi. (Pedair Cainc y Mabinogi) They revolve around one character - Pryderi ap Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed - and tell of his birth (Branch 1), life (Branches 2 and 3), and eventual death (Branch 4). There are also three Arthurian Romances (Geraint ac Enid, Peredur, and Owain/The Lady of the Fountain), another Welsh Arthurian quest in the form of Culhwch ac Olwen, The Dream of Rhonabwy (which is the same self-insert fanfic of Dante's Inferno if it were Welsh and King Arthur adjacent), The Dream of Macsen Wledig (what happens if Tinder was through dreams), and Lludd and Llefelys (a brotherly caper feat. DRAGONS). The Tale of Taliesin - when it's included (for example the Thomas and Thomas edition has it, Sioned Davies' doesn't) - tells the story about Wales' most mythologised bard (and my mortal enemy).

And, uh, you might wanna read 'em so lemme yap about them.

Charlotte Guest's translation is the most accessible. You can find it here:

For me, it's okay. It's heavily Victorianised so there is that but I cannot slag it off. Without Lady Guest's work, The Mab would've probably never've been translated, which does sound incredibly reductive. But to an English-speaking audience, it's so important that Wales' myths exist. I can't tell you how fuckin important these tales are. They're our culture all written down in a book. A tiny fuckin book (The White and Red books are actually quite large but ehhh) contains these stories and I'm ehdjdjdj I GO CRAZY.

ANYWAYS, moving on: You got Thomas and Thomas translation which does include The Tale of Taliesin!!! Gwyn Thomas was the second National Poet of Wales and he, along with Thomas Jones, a scholar whose main interest lay in Middle Welsh prose, translated the Mab in the 1930's. This one was hugely fuckin popular! It's the one I grew up on before Sioned Davies slammed her fist into my face. It's also been illustrated TWICE (thrice, if u count Kevin Crossley Holland and Gwyn Jones' retelling). Once by Alan Lee and once by Margaret Jones. (Too many Joneses. But Jones is just a stupidly popular surname in Wales.)

Next up: SIONED DAVIES. My personal go-to, fuckin amazing. It's of handy dandy footnotes. This one doesn't contain The Tale of Taliesin but it does contain all the other 11 stories as well as a pronunciation guide and a map illustrating Wales at the time. Please don't buy the audiobook though. It's crap. If you prefer audiobooks might I suggest:

Jeffrey Gantz's translation read by Gwyneth Keyworth. This one is the newest translation as came out in 2013 whereas Davies' came out in 2007. Gwyneth has such a fuckin lovely voice and I genuinely can't stop listening. Matt Addis also has a superb voice although his audiobook uses Lady Charlotte Guest's version and consequently a lot of the names have been anglicised (Gwenhwyfar becomes Guinevere. Ugh.)

If you're after either the Jones and Jones version or the Davies version then @queer-ragnelle has them on her Arthurian Preservation Project website. You'll find them under the Welsh section!!!!

Launcelot at the Chapel of the Holy Grail

Artist: Edward Burne-Jones (English, 1833-1898)

Date: 1895-1896

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, United Kingdom

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