INDEX
Reading edition
(Mainly of persons and places)
Aberystwyth, relics near, 11
Akeman Street, 123
Almesbury (Amesbury), 175-80
Alnwick, 44
Ambrosius, 15
Aneurin, his testimony to Arthur, 9
Arderydd, 66, 71, 82
Arnold, Matthew, quoted, 30, 35, 80
Arthur (Artus, Arcturus), King—
his widespread fame, 2, 3;
Saxon opponents of, 4;
an allegorical figure, 6, 27, 61;
Caxton on his identity, 9;
bardic chroniclers, 9-18, 62;
Geoffrey’s history of, 18;
the elemental hero, 29, 33, 149;
his domain, 31, 38, 39, 46-59, 64;
Scotch references, 52, 68;
his birth, 90;
his coronation, 115;
his Round Table, 130-58;
as warrior, 149;
as national hero, 150, 151;
his battle at Badon, 155-6;
in Italy, 157;
his marriage, 160;
at Camelot, 159 et seq.;
battle at Slaughter Bridge, 200;
his death-wound, 205;
his tomb, 207-9;
in Avalon, 238-47;
supposed remains, 241, 249
Arviragus, King, 223
Astolat, 55
Aurelius Ambrosius, 71, 74
Avalon (Avilion), 43, 51;
described 216 et seq. See “Glastonbury”
Badbury Rings, 153
Badon (Mons Badonicus), 4, 13, 51, 152-6
Bagdemagus, Sir, 77
Balin, Sir, 84, 129, 167
Bamborough Castle, 44
Barham Down, 156, 204
Bath, 152
Battles, King Arthur’s, 4, 29, 62, 125, 151;
the last at Camelford, 198, 200-1, 204, 208;
with Melvas, 240
Belenus, 123
Blackmore, poet, 30
Blaise (Bleys), 83
Borron, Robert de, 188, 230
Bors, Sir, 188, 191
Boscastle, 101
Bossiney, 101, 183
Brecknock, 46, 49, 144
Brécéliande (Broceliand, Brocelinde), forest of, 79, 81
Brittany, 43, 68
Brue, river, 219
Brythons, the, 3, 4, 47
Bude, 101-2
Cadbury Camp, Somerset, 141, 160, 171-2
Cadwalla, 5
Caerleon, 39, 53;
described, 113-29
Caerwent, 125, 126, 168
Camden, quoted, 96, 244
Camel, river, 198-9
Camelford, 55-7, 101; described, 194 et seq.
Cameliard, 39, 46-9
Camelot, described, 159 et seq.
Caractacus, 129
Carbonek, 38
Carew, historian, 95
Carmarthen, Merlin’s Cave at, 67, 78
Carobaise, 46
Castle Denis, 49
Castle-an-Dinas, 111
Cattraeth, battle of, 9-10
Caxton, his testimony to Arthur, 8, 9, 26
Cefn Bryn, 48
Celts, the, and their influence on history and legend, 3, 23, 31, 35, 66, 176, 213, 230, 231
Cerdic, 4, 5, 48, 153, 155
Chalice Hill, 229
Clevedon, 172
Constantinople, 39
Cormac, 107
Craik, Mrs., 96
David, St., 63, 236
Dawstane, 10
Douarnenez, 46
Dozmare Pool, 211-14
Drayton, quoted, 144, 155, 171
Dryden, 30
Dubric (Dubritius), 115, 125, 129, 155
Dunchine, 93
Dunstan, 236, 237
Ector, Sir, 90, 180
Edinburgh, 52
Edward I, King, at Glastonbury, 249
Eildon Hills, 51
Emerson, quoted, 33
Ettarde, 164
Evelake, King, 235
Excalibur, 211
Freeman, Professor, quoted, 153, 218, 236
Frere, J. K., quoted, 136
Gaisnar, 21
Galahad, 23, 41, 145, 148, 187, 191, 233
Gawaine, 79, 81, 161;
his character, 161-3, 166, 204
Geoffrey of Monmouth, 18-21, 95, 115, 118, 131, 251
Geraint, 129
Gibbon, 27
Gildas the historian, 10, 12, 13-16, 153, 246
Giraldus Cambriensis, 20
Glastonbury, Gildas at, 15;
history and description of, 216-56
“Gleam, The,” 69
Goothe, 38
Gorlois, 90, 91
Grail, the. See “Holy Grail”
Gray, 30
Guenevere (Guinevere, Gwenhwyvar), Queen, 62, 114, 132, 175-82, 240
Guest, Lady Charlotte, 78, 153, 162, 238
Guildford, 55-7
Henry II, King, at Glastonbury, 241-4
Henry of Bloys, 241
Holy Grail, the, 23, 133, 145;
the quest of, 186;
legend of, 187-93, 230
Holy Thorn, in Scotland, 52;
legend of, 223-28
Hueil (Howel), 15, 16, 50
Iceland, 64
Ider, 239
Igraine, 90
Inis vitrea (Ynyswytryn). See “Glastonbury”
Iseult (Isoud). See “Tristram and Iseult”
Jagent, 38
Joseph of Arimathæa, 186, 188, 193;
at Glastonbury, 221-33 passim
Joyous Gard, 43, 44, 45, 53, 179
Julian Way, the, 123, 168
Kay (Kaye), Sir, 91, 161
Knighton’s (Nectan’s) Kieve, St., 183-93
Knights, the, 37; their Round Table, 131 et seq.;
adventures at Camelot, 161, 166;
the last, 200
Kynon, 11
Lancelot, Sir, 44, 45, 55, 160, 166, 174, 178, 191
Landerneau, 45
Land’s End, 42
Layamon, 21, 22
Leland, quoted, 14, 94, 95, 126, 142, 168, 171, 182, 245
Leodegraunce, King, 132-3
Llanilterne, Guinevere’s tomb at, 179
Llywarch Hên, 9, 11, 34
Logris, 36
Lonazep, 38
Lot, King, 174
Lowell, J. R., 30
Lyonnesse, 40, 42, 43
“Mabinogion,” the, 117, 129
Mackinnon, Dr., quoted, 13
Malory, Sir Thomas, 25, 26, 27, 106, 191, 212
Map (Mapes), Walter, 22-5, 188
Mark (Marc’h), King, 41, 46, 104, 106
Melvas, King, 239
Merlin, 25, 43, 66, 132; his history, 67-71;
drama of, 72-5;
his doom, 75-8;
his influence, 83;
his prophecies, 246
Milton, 24, 30, 62
Moel Arthur, 49
Mons Badonicus. See “Badon”
Mordred, 129, 200-3
Morris, William, 30
Mount, St. Michael’s, 42
Myrdin Emrys, 67, 71
Nantanleod, King, 4
Nennius, 12, 16
Nimuë (Vivien), 72, 77
Norden, on Tintagel, 97
Nutt, David, 191
Odin, 64
Olaf, 64
Orkneys, 52
Patrick, St., 236
Pelleas, 163-5, 188-9
Pellinore, King, 146
Pendragon Castle, 51
Penrith, 141
Pen-y-Van, 144
Percivale (Parzifal, Perceval), 134, 186, 189
“Perilous, Siege,” 146, 165
Petersaint, 38
Quoits, Arthur’s, 48-9
Renan, 46, 80, 176
Ritson, Joseph, 46, 154, 156
Rocky Valley, Tintagel, 183
Rome, 65, 151, 157
Round Table, the, 119;
history of, 130-58;
supposed localities, 141 et seq.;
its symbolism, 145
Row Tor, 213
Sancgreal, the. See “Holy Grail”
Sandwich, 158
Sarras, 190, 192, 193
Scilly, 40
Scott, Sir Walter, quoted, 12, 26, 30, 68, 141, 142
Shalott, 163, 181
Silures, the, 24, 47, 126
Slaughter Bridge, 199, 205
Snowdon, 71, 76
Sommer, Dr., 26, 29
Southey, 29
Souvestre, Emile, 81
Spenser, 30, 77, 233
Steep Holm, 14
Stephen’s, St. (Steven’s), Camelot, 160, 174
Stonehenge, 3, 75, 154
Stow’s Chronicle, 215
Strachey, Sir E., quoted, 27, 64
Surluse (Surluce), 40, 41
Swinburne, quoted, 30
Talhairan, 129
Taliesin, 9, 11, 129
Ten Brink, quoted, 135
Tennyson, 30;
at Caerleon, 126-28, 155, 162;
description of Camelot, 170;
on Guinevere, 175;
the Grail legend, 193;
on Mordred, 203
Terabyl, 91, 92
Thierry, 34
Thomas the Rhymer, 104
Tintagel, 53;
described, 88-111 passim
Tor, the Glastonbury, 220, 236, 255
Tristram and Iseult, 44, 46, 89, 103-6, 174
Tweed, the, 68, 69, 70
Urien, 11
Usk, river, 67, 115, 119
Uther (Uter), King, 64, 71, 74, 75, 89, 90, 132
Uwaine, Sir, 72
Veitch, professor, 71
Vellan, 42
Vivien, 77, 79, 81
Wace, 21, 80, 131
Wagner, 107
Warton, 30, 139
Waste Lands, the, 38
Weary All (Wirral, Worall) Hill, 223
Wedmore, palace at, 247
Wells Abbey, 229
Wigan, battle at, 51
William of Newburgh, 20
Winchester, 55, 131, 143, 167, 139-41 passim
Wodensbury, battle at, 5
Wolfram von Ezchenbach, 189
Ynyswytryn. See “Glastonbury”
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