Le Morte d'Arthur/Volume I/Book I

by Thomas Malory

Chapters (not listed in original)

• Chapter I: How Uther Pendragon sent for the duke of Cornwall and Igraine his wife, and of their departing suddenly again
• Chapter II: How Uther Pendragon made war on the duke of Cornwall, and how by the mean of Merlin he lay by the duchess and gat Arthur
• Chapter III: Of the birth of King Arthur and of his nurture
• Chapter IV: And of the death of King Uther Pendragon
• Chapter V: And how Arthur was chosen king, and of wonders and marvels of a sword taken out of a stone by the said Arthur
• Chapter VI: How King Arthur pulled out the sword divers times
• Chapter VII: How King Arthur was crowned, and how he made officers
• Chapter VIII: How King Arthur held in Wales, at a Pentecost, a great feast, and what kings and lords came to his feast
• Chapter IX: Of the first war that King Arthur had, and how he won the field
• Chapter X: How Merlin counselled King Arthur to send for King Ban and King Bors, and of their counsel taken for the war
• Chapter XI: Of a great tourney made by King Arthur and the two kings Ban and Bors, and how they went over the sea
• Chapter XII: How eleven kings gathered a great host against King Arthur
• Chapter XIII: Of a dream of the King with the Hundred Knights
• Chapter XIV: How the eleven kings with their host fought against Arthur and his host, and many great feats of the war
• Chapter XV: Yet of the same battle
• Chapter XVI: Yet more of the same battle
• Chapter XVII: Yet more of the said battle, and how it was ended by Merlin
• Chapter XVIII: How King Arthur, King Ban, and King Bors rescued King Leodegrance, and other incidents
• Chapter XIX: How King Arthur rode to Carlion, and of his dream, and how he saw the Questing Beast
• Chapter XX: How King Pellinore took Arthur's horse and followed the Questing Beast, and how Merlin met with Arthur
• Chapter XXI: How Ulfius impeached Queen Igraine, Arthur's mother, of treason; and how a knight came and desired to have the death of his master revenged
• Chapter XXII: How Griflet was made knight, and jousted with a knight
• Chapter XXIII: How twelve knights came from Rome and asked truage for this land of Arthur, and how Arthur fought with a knight
• Chapter XXIV: How Merlin saved Arthur's life, and threw an enchantment on King Pellinore and made him to sleep
• Chapter XXV: How Arthur by the mean of Merlin gat Excalibur his sword of the Lady of the Lake
• Chapter XXVI: How tidings came to Arthur that King Rience had overcome eleven kings, and how he desired Arthur's beard to trim his mantle
• Chapter XXVII: How all the children were sent for that were born on May-day, and how Mordred was saved