Le Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory (ebook reader with android os TXT) 📕
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Thomas Malory did not invent the stories of Arthur, King of Britain, but it is fair to say that he reinvented them. Although the legends were already hundreds of years old by the fifteenth century, the contemporary stories of Arthur in Malory’s day were primarily French. The French had added many of the elements familiar to modern readers, among them Lancelot, and the search for the Holy Grail. Malory combined, edited, and added some of his own material to the stories available to him, and in the process created a uniquely British work. (It was his printer Caxton who gave it a French name.) Le Morte d’Arthur is the source material for almost all modern retellings of King Arthur and his knights, from Hollywood movies and musicals to Nobel-prize winning writers.
Malory’s identity is still in some dispute, as there are several men of various spellings of the name to choose from. Sir Thomas Malory from Newbold Revel in Warwickshire is the most popular choice, but his life of crime—he was a rapist and serial thief at the minimum—seems to be at odds with the acts of chivalry and moral code present in this book. It is known from the author’s own notes that he wrote the book while in prison; perhaps he was trying to make amends for his crimes. Regardless, the result was to give new life to King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
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Complete. ↩
Complete. ↩
Gift. ↩
Readiest. ↩
Lubber. ↩
Descent. ↩
Notes on a horn. ↩
Champions. ↩
Machicolated, with holes for defence. ↩
Drew back. ↩
Loaves baked at the same time. ↩
Sailor’s cry. ↩
Breastplate of a horse. ↩
Saddle girths. ↩
Hewn to pieces. ↩
Paid for. ↩
Pledges. ↩
Away. ↩
Expended, bestowed. ↩
Printed by Caxton as part of chap. XXII. ↩
Desolate. ↩
Handbreadth. ↩
Lumps. ↩
In Caxton’s edition this chapter is misnumbered XXVI, setting the numeration wrong to the end of the book. ↩
Messengers sent to prepare lodgings. ↩
So W. de Worde; Caxton “that by.” ↩
Watches. ↩
Path. ↩
So W. de Worde; Caxton “me.” ↩
Comforted, cheered. ↩
So W. de Worde; Caxton “bee.” ↩
Officer who set on dishes and tasted them. ↩
Printed by Caxton as part of chap. II. ↩
Possessed. ↩
Swung. ↩
Known. ↩
Casually. ↩
Pass. ↩
Earnest money. ↩
Printed by Caxton as part of chap. XXVI. ↩
Untwisted, unbound. ↩
Bolted. ↩
Leper house. ↩
Limb from limb. ↩
Deny. ↩
Broke up. ↩
Discomfort. ↩
The part of the helmet which shaded the eyes. ↩
Raging. ↩
Undertook. ↩
Over wide space. ↩
Make way. ↩
Pushed. ↩
Printed by Caxton as part of chap. IV. ↩
Like a gentleman. ↩
Sorely wound. ↩
Shorten. ↩
Ill-luck, mishap. ↩
Thicket of the wood. ↩
In watch for. ↩
Thoughtlessly. ↩
Sauntering. ↩
Cheeks. ↩
Reward. ↩
Devices, wiles. ↩
“The evening afore,” W. de Worde. ↩
Company. ↩
Nearly. ↩
Oil. ↩
Changed. ↩
Foolish. ↩
Jested. ↩
Stole. ↩
Describe. ↩
Mounted. ↩
Without a share. ↩
Barking, yelping. ↩
Day for settling disputes. ↩
Covered. ↩
Desire. ↩
Discomfort. ↩
Redeem. ↩
Practised. ↩
Cleverly. ↩
Betrothed. ↩
Testicles. ↩
Uncovered. ↩
Certainly. ↩
Afraid. ↩
Pennon, streamer. ↩
Note of recall. ↩
Barking. ↩
Foolish. ↩
“Y-wis” (certainly), Caxton; “ye-wis” (truly), W. de Worde. ↩
Breathing holes. ↩
Along. ↩
Deceitful. ↩
Reared. ↩
Sideways. ↩
Slantwise. ↩
Needs, on your own compulsion. ↩
With the head covered. ↩
Garments. ↩
Except. ↩
Except. ↩
Embraced. ↩
Faded. ↩
Fat deer. ↩
Without reward. ↩
Aiming. ↩
Arrowheads. ↩
Command. ↩
Revived. ↩
Skin. ↩
Ermine. ↩
Twisted. ↩
Back part of knee-joint. ↩
Overtake. ↩
Enclosed. ↩
Sparrowhawk. ↩
Float. ↩
Omitted by Caxton, supplied from W. de Worde. ↩
Omitted by Caxton, supplied from W. de Worde. ↩
Omitted by Caxton, supplied from W. de Worde. ↩
Rich and poor. ↩
Retract. ↩
Omitted by Caxton, supplied from W. de Worde. ↩
Omitted by Caxton, supplied from W. de Worde. ↩
Omitted by Caxton, supplied from W. de Worde. ↩
Omitted by Caxton, supplied from W. de Worde. ↩
Thrust. ↩
Caxton “Yf,” for which “Yea” seems the easiest emendation that will save the sense. ↩
Covetousness. ↩
Deceit. ↩
Plundering. ↩
Misfortune. ↩
Soft, tender. ↩
Partition. ↩
Spurring. ↩
Semblance. ↩
Drowned. ↩
Wedge or spike of iron. ↩
Because of. ↩
Beseech. ↩
So W. de Worde; Caxton “but.” ↩
Roots. ↩
Overcome. ↩
Hauberk with leggings attached. ↩
Uppermost. ↩
Pleased, content.
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