Folklore and Arthurian Traditions: Virtual Special Issue 3, 2012
VSI'sVirtual Special Issues of Folklore are selections of articles on specific themes hand picked by our editor Patricia Lysaght, with a podcast introduction by our reviews editor Juliette Wood, and a reading list of featured articles. All the articles are free to download by members of The Folklore Society.
Featured articles from Folklore
King Arthur’s Enchanted Sleep: Early Nineteenth Century Legends, by J. R. Simpson, vol. 97/2, 1986
The Perils of Good Advice: The Effect of the Wise Counsellor upon the Conduct of Gawain, by Raymond H. Thompson, vol. 90/1, 1979
Snow and Mist in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Portents of the Otherworld? by Martin Puhvel, vol. 89/2, 1978
Tom Thumb and Jack the Giant Killer: Two Arthurian Folktales? by Thomas Green, vol. 118/2, 2007
King Arthur in History and Legend, by Mary Williams, vol. 73/2, 1962
The Cult of Arthurian Relics, by E. M. R. Ditmas, vol. 75/1, 1964
Further reading
Gawain Against Arthur. The Impact of a Mythological Pattern upon Arthurian Tradition in Accounts of the Birth of Gawain, by Raymond H. Thompson, vol. 85/2, 1974
‘Muse on þi Mirrour…’: The Challenge of the Outlandish Stranger in the English Arthurian Verse Romances, by Raymond H. Thompson, vol. 87/2, 1976
Review of Rodney Castleden, King Arthur: The Truth behind the Legend (London and New York: Routledge, 2000), by Brynley Roberts, vol. 112/2, 2001
More Arthurian Relics, by E. M. R. Ditmas, vol. 77/2, 1966
The Fairy Mythology of English Literature: Its Origin and Nature, by Alfred Nutt, vol. 8/1, 1897
Arthurian Tradition and Folklore, by Roger Sherman Loomis, vol. 69/1, 1958
Tradition and Sources: The Jackson—Loomis Controversy Re-Examined, by Raymond J. Cormier, vol. 83/2, 1972
Arthur and Gorlagon, by Frank A. Milne and A. Nutt, vol. 15/1, 1904
The Roman van Walewein (Gawain), by W. P. Ker, vol. 5/2, 1894
The History of the Destruction of the Round Table as Told in Hebrew in the Year 1279, by Moses Gaster, vol. 20/3, 1909