Le Morte d'Arthur/Volume I/Book V

by Thomas Malory

Incipit Liber Quintus.

Chapters (not listed in original)

• Chapter I: How twelve aged ambassadors of Rome came to King Arthur to demand truage for Britain
• Chapter II: How the kings and lords promised to King Arthur aid and help against the Romans
• Chapter III: How King Arthur held a parliament at York, and how he ordained the realm should be governed in his absence
• Chapter IV: How King Arthur being shipped and lying in his cabin had a marvellous dream and of the exposition thereof
• Chapter V: How a man of the country told to him of a marvellous giant, and how he fought and conquered him
• Chapter VI: How King Arthur sent Sir Gawaine and other to Lucius, and how they were assailed and escaped with worship
• Chapter VII: How Lucius sent certain spies in a bushment for to have taken his knights being prisoners, and how they were letted
• Chapter VIII: How a senator told to Lucius of their discomfiture, and also of the great battle between Arthur and Lucius
• Chapter IX: How Arthur, after he had achieved the battle against the Romans, entered into Almaine, and so into Italy
• Chapter X: Of a battle done by Gawaine against a Saracen, which after was yielden and became Christian
• Chapter XI: How the Saracens came out of a wood for to rescue their beasts, and of a great battle
• Chapter XII: How Sir Gawaine returned to King Arthur with his prisoners, and how the King won a city, and how he was crowned Emperor