The Mystery of King Arthur

The story of King Arthur is one of the greatest legends in the world. Arthur was a Celtic chieftain who crushed the Saxons and came to be adopted as their hero. His myth still lives and works the same strange wonder in us as it has through the centuries in art, history and literature; in Sir Thomas Malory's splendid prose; in Tennyson's great poem Morte d' Arthur, written fifteen hundred years after the time that Arthur lived and in which resound those reassuring, splendid lines:

"The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways." Arthur's beginning and end are mystically associated with water. Magical names call out to us like an incantation through time:

Excalibur, Merlin, Camelot, the Round Table, the Star Temple of Glastonbury, the tragedy of Lancelot and Guinevere, the High History of the Holy Grail.

Elizabeth Jenkins brings her subject alive in this unique and glowing book, doing full justice through her loving and careful research to history and mystery alike. The pictures complete the story, highlight the details and capture again for us that lost and beautiful world whose heritage is ours and whose magic is King Arthur.