A review by deborahmaryrose
King Arthur and His Knights by Frank Godwin, Thomas Malory, Elizabeth Lodor Merchant

4.0

I read this book when I was a pre-teen, and it certainly got me hooked on the legends of King Arthur. It is a fairly "sanitized" version, all knights and lovely ladies, with some magical creatures including the famous Merlin. Since then I have graduated to reading the darker tales, such as "the Mists of Avalon" by Marion Zimmer Bradley, which doEs much to fill in the details of the time including the worship of the Mother Goddess, the conflict between the so-called pagans of the time and the Christian Church. The love affair between Lancelot and Guinevere, far from being purely platonic as told by Lodor Merchant, was a true love affair which destroyed the lives of the three people there entwined. The lives of the priestesses, Morgaine Le Fey, her mother, and her three sisters, are more fully explored, as are their machinations which were to bring about the tragedies at the Court of Camelot.