A - Literature
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 April 2017
Summary
A-1 “a. µ.” [pseud.]. “Guinevere.”The World (London) no. 1074 (30 Jan. 1895): 26. A Petrarchan sonnet. Although Excalibur, Lancelot, Vivien, and Elaine are gone, Guinevere endures as long as women are desirable and treacherous: “We love to feel our necks beneath her feet / For only she has found the Grail of Love.”
A-2 Ab Hugh, Dafydd. Arthur War Lord. Arthur War Lord 1. New York: Avon Books, 1994.
An SAS major follows a terrorist back in time to stop her from changing history. The major becomes Lancelot, but he does not know which of the members of Arthur's court harbours the terrorist. He must find her while surviving the intricacies of Arthurian politics and Masonic plots. Malory is mentioned often, though the major finds the Arthurian world quite different from that of Malory's depiction.
A-3 Ab Hugh, Dafydd. Far Beyond the Wave. Arthur War Lord 2. New York: Avon Books, 1994.
The continuation of Arthur War Lord in which Peter / Lancelot leads an attack on Jutish invaders and finally discovers, among various major and minor plots and betrayals, who the terrorist is. Ab Hugh uses the idea of a royal line descended from Jesus and Mary Magdalene as a major plot thread.
A-4 Abbey, Lynn. Conquest. Illus. Robert Gould. Unicorn and Dragon 2. New York: Avon Books, 1988.
Rptd: The Green Man. London: Headline, 1989. The continuing story of Alison Hafwynder, the last High Priestess in Avalon, and her “half-sister,” Wildecent. After the death of Lady Ygurna, the two “sisters” share the duties of the lady of the manor. Soon, however, the two are forced to leave the manor and accompany Stephen to his Norman uncle's castle, where they find themselves hostages in the Norman-English struggle, and where the Norman uncle declares his intention to marry Alison.
A-5 Abbey, Lynn. Unicorn and Dragon. Illus. Robert Gould. Unicorn and Dragon 1. New York: Avon Books, 1987.
Alison Hafwynder is the last High Priestess in Avalon. This is a fantasy novel set in eleventh-century England, at the time of the death of King Edward and just before the Norman invasion, concerning three women (old Lady Ygurna and her two young “daughters” – one of whom is really her sister's daughter and the other a foster child), whose house (Hafwynder Manor) is the last bastion of ancient Celtic paganism and magic (the “Old Ways”) in Anglo-Saxon England.
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- A Bibliography of Modern Arthuriana (1500–2000) , pp. 1 - 488Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2006