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Joseph Albert - Ludwig und Malwine Schnorr von Carolsfeld - Tristan und Isolde, 1865f
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- ... that 15th-century heralds attributed a coat of arms (pictured) to Jesus based on the instruments of the Passion?
- ... that Laura Ashe believes the Gawain Poet used the beheading game to criticize the emptiness of chivalry?
- ... that when the Cornish play Beunans Ke was discovered in 2000, it proved to be one of the most significant finds in the study of Cornish literature and language?
- ... that in Arthurian legend, Brangaine inadvertently sets the romance of Tristan and Iseult in motion by failing to protect the love potion entrusted to her?
- ... that Marie de France's poem "Chevrefoil", one of the 12 Lais of Marie de France, recounts an episode from the legend of Tristan and Iseult?
- ... that Constans II was a monk before he became a Roman emperor?
- ... that the head of Constantine III was presented to his co-emperor Honorius on the end of a pole?
- ... that Eilhart von Oberge's German poem Tristrant, dating to the late 12th century, is the earliest complete version of the Tristan and Iseult legend in any language?
- ... that Fire and Sword, a film about Tristan and Isolde, reused the stuntmen and horses from another Arthurian film, Excalibur?
- ... that the preface of a book written by Saint Goeznovius is an important document in establishing a historical basis for the mythical British king, King Arthur?
- ... that the Green Knight (pictured) of medieval literature is thought by many scholars to represent the Devil due to its strange colour?
- ... that the Holy Grail tapestries (detail pictured), depicting scenes from the legend of King Arthur, were designed by Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, and John Henry Dearle?
- ... that Natsume Sōseki's 1905 novel Kairo-kō is the earliest, and only major, prose treatment of the Arthurian legend in the Japanese language?
- ... that the in-production Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur is the first of a planned six-film series?
- ... that the only written version of the Arthurian ballad "King Arthur and King Cornwall" was torn up and used to start fires?
- ... that the opera King Arthur is unusual because the principal characters do not sing, rather they recite dialogue accompanied by music?
- ... that John William Waterhouse's 1888 painting The Lady of Shalott (pictured), based on Alfred Tennyson's 1832 poem, portrays the Lady sailing towards Camelot and certain death?
- ... that Arthurian author Nancy McKenzie wrote her novel Queen of Camelot to make Queen Guinevere "into someone a 20th-century person could understand"?
- ... that Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum in Scotland displays a collection of local incised Pictish stones dating to the 9th and 10th centuries AD (example pictured)?
- ... that the 1980 bibliography The Old French Tristan Poems was praised for indexing the fragments of Tristan, a 12th-century poem?
- ... that the 13th-century French romance Palamedes describes the adventures of the fathers of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table?
- ... that the 13th century romance Perlesvaus features a strikingly different portrayal of the Arthurian legend than most texts, including a scene in which Sir Kay murders King Arthur and Guinevere's son?
- ... that the meaning of "Der Pleier", the pseudonym of the 13th-century author of the romance Garel, is unknown, though it might refer metaphorically to glassblowing?
- ... that such characters of medieval romance as Palamedes, Dinadan, and Lamorak make their first appearance in the prose romance of Tristan?
- ... that an illuminated manuscript, the Rochefoucauld Grail, contains what is regarded as the oldest and most comprehensive version of the legend of King Arthur and the Holy Grail?
- ... that the Roman de Fergus is the earliest piece of non-Celtic vernacular literature to have survived from Scotland?
- ... that Tournament of Kings made its host the United States' biggest buyer of Cornish game hens in 2018?
- ... that Rogelio de Egusquiza's paintings of Tristan and Isolde (one pictured) arose from his decades-long fascination with the works of Richard Wagner?
- ... that six Pre-Raphaelite artists designed the set of stained glass panels (pictured) illustrating scenes from the story of Sir Tristram and la Belle Isoude as told in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur?
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Level 5 vital articles[edit]
- Book of Taliesin
- Camelot
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- Cornwall
- Excalibur
- The Faerie Queene
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Gawain Poet
- Gottfried von Strassburg
- Guinevere
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- Historia Regum Britanniae
- Lais of Marie de France
- Lancelot-Grail
- Lancelot
- Layamon's Brut
- Mabinogion
- Thomas Malory
- Marie de France
- Matter of Britain
- Merlin
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Morgan le Fay
- Le Morte d'Arthur
- Parsifal
- Parzival
- T. H. White
- Wolfram von Eschenbach