Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the Magic Arts

Patrick K. Ford is Margaret Brooks Robinson Professor Emeritus of Celtic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.  Jerry Hunter is Professor of Welsh and Celtic Studies at Bangor University in Wales.

"For anyone interested in unique stories of historical myth, this book is worth it for the introduction alone. . . . Fantastic work has been done to bring this astounding historical epic to a wider twenty-first-century audience."

• ContentsIntroduction: Elis Gruffydd and His ChronicleJerry HunterTranslator’s NotePatrick K. FordTHE TEXTSI. Earliest Times, Biblical and AncientThe Birth of HerculesThe Birth of AlexanderThe Story of the RoodThe Tower of BabelThe Origins of BritainII. Merlin and ArthurThe Birth of Merlin the ProphetMerlin and the Threefold DeathMerlin and the Dreams of GwenddyddMerlin’s Prophecy and the Reign of CaswalldanCustennin and the Rise of Gwrtheyrn/VortigernGwrtheyrn and Saint GermainGwrtheyrn and the Falling CastleGwrtheyrn’s Reign, Hengist, and HorsaMerlin and StonehengeMerlin Explains the Dragon ImageUthyr Defeats the Saxons, Arthur Is BornThe Death of Uthyr PendragonMerlin Helps Arthur in His Earliest BattlesArthur and the Sword in the StoneThe Death of MerlinHuail Son of Caw and ArthurArthur Dreams of the Loss of KingshipArthur and the Round TableThe Final Battle, Arthur DiesArthur’s Cave FoundCharlemagne and ArthurIII. Tales of Magic, Prophecy, and the SupernaturalMaelgwn Gwynedd, His Wife, and the RingThe Story of Gwion BachThe Epiphany of TaliesinAn Unfortunate WitchThe Ring and the NecromancerTwo Women and a Dead HusbandA Sorcerer Who Fared Less WellHenry II: Piggyback Follies and an Ugly PriestThe Prophesied Death of Edward I (the Confessor)Swearing on Bread in the Time of King Edward the ConfessorThe Reign of William II and His DeathThe Dream of Henry I and MatildaThe Earl of Anjou Who Married a She-DevilEdward III and the GarterThe Plague in the Time of Edward IIIHenry VI and His GlovesThe Death of Edward ILlywelyn, Prince of Wales, and the FoolRichard I, the Lion, and the HeartOwain Tudur and Catherine de Valois and the Rise of the TudorsHenry VII and NecromancyThomas More and the Garden of PainSir Thomas More and the NecromancerA Ghost Story for Henry VIIIRhobin DduCharles V and the AstronomerGlossary