MACMILLAN READERS INTERMEDIATE LEVEL STEPHEN COLBOURN King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table MACMILLAN
Contents A Note About These Stories A Picture Dictionary The People in These Stories The Coming of Arthur
A Note About These Stories
A Picture Dictionary
The Coming of Arthur Merlin promises a New King
'No one is using this sword,' Arthur thought. 'I will borrow it for my brother Kay.' Then the young man pulled the sword
Excalibur
Queen Guinevere
Queen Guinevere
Merlin and Nimu
their warhorses and fought with swords, shields and spears.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Christmas court I t was a time of peace in the Kingdom of Logres. King Arthur and Queen Guinevere ruled wisely and well. Many good and noble 33 knights visited Camelot and the Round Table.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Then Gawain stood up. 'I am Gawain, son of King Lot,' he said. 'I will strike you with your axe. I will cut off your head.' 'Do it,' said the Green Knight. 'Then, after this day, twelve months and one day will pass. At that time, you shall come to 'Who will strike me with my own axe?'
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Everyone was silent. The feast was ended. 'Gawain has made a terrible bargain,' thought the Knights of the Round Table. 'He has just agreed to his own death.'
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Chapel Perilous 'Sir Meliot came here,' answered the lady. 'He fought my husband and killed him. But Sir Meliot was wounded in the
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Tristram and Iseult
Tristram and Iseult
Tristram and Iseult If I see a white sail, I will live until Fair Iseult comes to heal me.' Iseult of the White Hands heard these words and there
Percivale and Lancelot Percivale goes to Caerleon Percivale grew up in the land west of Caerleon. It was a wild and empty land and few travellers went there. Percivale
Percivale and Lancelot
Percivale and Lancelot vision, the knights of Camelot will quest for the Holy Grail.' 'But why do we see the vision here and now?' asked Lancelot. 'It is a vision of the Holy Grail,' King Pelles said.
10 The Siege Perilous
The Siege Perilous joy. They paid no attention to the new squires Mordred and Galahad.
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12 The Breaking of the Round Table Mordred's knights at Camelot M any knights did not return to Camelot. They were lost in the Quest for the Holy Grail. Young knights came to Camelot and soon there was a division in the court. The old knights surrounded King Arthur, The young knights gathered
The Breaking of the Round Table
The Breaking of the Round Table the sword Excalibur. He will look for it in the West Country. I know where the sword came from. We will go to the place and wait. It is a place of power. I will be strong there. Arthur will come. We will fight him, and that will be Arthur's end.' Arthur gathered all his men and rode after Sir Mordred.
The Passing of Arthur The islands were lost in the darkness of night. But the boat gleamed in the last light of the frosty moon. Bedivere watched for a long time. The moon faded. Behind
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