Please feel free to post links to great stuff here. I will sum them up under the headers every now and then, when doing so I will always put news at the top so that frequent users can find new stuff easily by looking at 'modify' date and then checking the first links.
During my 'off' periods maybe someone who can edit posts can do the same?
Note that this is from several different posters so don't blame anyone in particular for a broken link.

Oh and if anyone wants to 'dress' their links but don't know how then do like this:

xxx (XX)
Put in the url instead of the 'XX' and your description instead of the 'xxx'.

- Arthurian & british myth -

Chretien de Troyes
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/831

le morte d'artur (http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/)

the camelot project (http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cphome.stm)

Culture, Myths and Legends of Cornwall (http://www.connexions.co.uk/culture/index.htm)

Mysterious Britain & Ireland (http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/)

Arthurian legend at Encyclopedia Mythica (http://www.pantheon.org/areas/folklore/arthurian/)

Arthurian source texts - only useful for background (http://www.britannia.com/history/arthur/artdocs.html)

Chevaliers de la table ronde - really heavy so only for broadband users (http://numerique.bibliotheque.bm-lille.fr/sdx/num/manuscrit_329/)

http://fred.wheatonma.edu/wordpressmu/mdrout
Readings of Anglo-Saxon literature, including, of course, Beowulf. My favorite is The Ruin http://fred.wheatonma.edu/wordpressmu/mdrout/category/ruin/

- Medieval -

Historia Francorum by Gregory of Tours
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/gregory-hist.html#book3
The link is to book three which is after 511 when the Franks start to affect Britain.

Wiltshire (Salisbury), extracted from Domesday book: to which is added a translation of the original Latin into English. With an index, in which are adapted the modern names to the antient; and with a preface, in which is included a plan for a general history of the county (1788)
http://www.archive.org/details/wiltshireextract00saliiala

List of medieval terms (http://the-orb.net/medieval_terms.html#m)

http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beastalphashort.htm
A medieval bestiary.

medievalists.net (http://medievalists.net) and deremilitari.org (http://deremilitari.org)
Websites with a whole lot of primary sources and academic journal articles that you ordinarily would not be able to read without access to an academic library or several very expensive subscriptions; the latter focuses heavily on medieval military history.

Early Medieval Kings and Lost Kingdoms (http://hefenfelth.wordpress.com/early-medieval-kings/)

List of medeival occupations (http://www.svincent.com/MagicJar/Economics/MedievalOccupations.html)

another list of medeival occupations (http://arcana.wikidot.com/list-of-medieval-european-professions)

the internet medeival sourcebook (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1n.html)

List of costs and prices from game-developers (http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article251.asp)

List of medieval weapons on wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medieval_weapons)

The geld draft of William the Conqueror in 1085 (http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/contents.html)

http://forums.swordforum.com/showthread.php?t=41041
Some information on medieval armor, debunking some of the more common and persistent myths out there. Can't vouch for the rest of the site, but this information here is very solid and very useful.

- Maps, Heraldry & Art -

Medieval woodcuts clipart collection
http://www.godecookery.com/clipart/clart.htm

free medieval web graphics site
http://retrokat.com/medieval/si.htm

For artwork check out the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Raphaelite_Brotherhood)
Google image on some arthurian inspired artists
Edmund Leighton (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us&um=1&sa=1&q=wiki++Edmund+blair+leighton&aq=f&oq =&aqi=&start=0)
George Frederic Watts (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=George+Frederic+Watts+&bt nG=Search+Images&gbv=2&aq=f&oq=&aqi=)
John Waterhouse (http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&sa=1&q=John+William+Waterhouse& aq=f&oq=&aqi=g2&start=0)
Dante Rossetti (http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&sa=3&q=dante+gabriel+rossetti)

Some heraldic shields at earlyBlazon (http://www.earlyblazon.com/)

Coat of arms Design Studio - a utility to create heraldic art (http://inkwellideas.com/coat_of_arms/)

http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/exhibOnlineThumbs.asp?id=OnlineKings
The Morgan Bible: also known as the Macjzk-something Bible, this was commissioned for the court of the great crusader king Louis IX (or VIIII if you want to be authentic about it). Positively gorgeous illuminations, including some awfully gory fight scenes.

http://diglit.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg848/
Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift (Codex Manesse)
another picture codex with medieval art

http://expositions.bnf.fr/arthur/
a french virtual exhibition with plenty of arthurian medieval art

IMAGES OF MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE from Uni of Pittsburgh (http://www.pitt.edu/~medart/menuengl/mainmaps.html)
Note the roman britain map (http://www.pitt.edu/~medart/image/england/england2/mapsengl/RomaBrit.jpg)

http://diglit.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg848/
The Manesse Codex--another medieval manuscript with lots of pretty knightly illuminations.

Ancient maps (http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/)

- Campains & player content-

Real world relics (http://www.kingarthurbanner.com/artifacts.htm) (The extremely detailed items listed have made great trinkets for PK family heirlooms.)

Perkin's campain stuff (http://www.angelfire.com/rpg2/dnd3e/pendragon.htm)

Dr. J.M. Krijger's Pendragon stuff - with some improved manorial site maps (http://gspendragon.wordpress.com/)

- Blogs -

http://gotmedieval.blogspot.com/
The blog of a Princeton grad student, focusing mostly on silly things in medieval manuscripts (this week's feature: medieval penis trees)

http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/MUHLBERGER/blog.htm
The blog of a professor at Nipissing University, who does a fair amount with chivalry.

http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/muhlberger/froissart/tales.htm
From the same guy, a bunch of excerpts from the Chronicles of Froissart, focusing on the more swashbuckling episodes.

http://willscommonplacebook.blogspot.com/
The blog of a historical reenactor and amateur historian who does a lot of great work with chivalric subjects, including data on weapons and tons of translations of primary sources. I know some people are skeptical of the SCA, but this guy really knows his stuff.

http://medievalnews.blogspot.com/
Medieval news--the latest on whatever medieval ruins are being dug up, what's making big waves in the exciting world of medieval academia (England's paleography program may be discontinued! This is really really bad, not kidding), etc.

http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/
A blog run by several academic medievalists, including J.J. Cohen, a former student of the writer on chivalry Richard Kaeuper; it often goes off the deep end of academia, probably unusable for the purpose of running a Pendragon game, but I'm sure there are things in there that would be useful.

http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/
The blog of Geoffrey Chaucer--I WILL CONTINUE SPAMMING THIS LINK UNTIL THE INTERNET GOES COLD AND DEAD SO HELP ME GOD

http://chantblog.blogspot.com/ and http://hymnosdebitoscanamus.blogspot.com/
Stuff about Latin hymns; if you're lucky, there will be included links to recordings of the hymns in Latin. Interesting, and maybe good for setting the mood.

- Misc -

http://www.mystyldyne.com/wiki2/index.php?title=Home
Domesday is a suite of Referee's tools written for the Pendragon role-playing game. The software is Windows-based and is developed and supported by fans of the Pendragon game.

The Historic Tale Construction Kit: http://www.adgame-wonderland.de/type/bayeux.php

Name generator (http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pound/)

Name site - with origins and explanations (http://www.behindthename.com/)

King Arthur in movies and TV
http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0002000/

Great idea and presentation.

I love the medieval penis tree. (That's not something I ever expected to say.)

If anyone has some time to spare, then there are lots of links in this forum which has not made it into this link. So just quoting the posts and putting them here would be appreciated.

I love the medieval penis tree. (That's not something I ever expected to say.)


Those aren't even the only ones he has.
http://gotmedieval.blogspot.com/2008/10/negative-campaigning-medieval-style.html
You have to admit, as an artistic motif it gets the point across quickly.

Anyway:

http://forums.swordforum.com/showthread.php?t=41041
Some information on medieval armor, debunking some of the more common and persistent myths out there. Can't vouch for the rest of the site, but this information here is very solid and very useful.

http://fred.wheatonma.edu/wordpressmu/mdrout
Readings of Anglo-Saxon literature, including, of course, Beowulf. My favorite is The Ruin http://fred.wheatonma.edu/wordpressmu/mdrout/category/ruin/

http://chantblog.blogspot.com/ and http://hymnosdebitoscanamus.blogspot.com/
Stuff about Latin hymns; if you're lucky, there will be included links to recordings of the hymns in Latin. Interesting, and maybe good for setting the mood.

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Spoonist, the penis tree made my day. Thank you for that link. Oh thank you! ;D

Spoonist, the penis tree made my day. Thank you for that link. Oh thank you! ;D


Not mine, that was doorknobdeity's link. I'm just trying to collect everyone's link into one thread...

Chretien de Troyes
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/831

Wiltshire, extracted from Domesday book: to which is added a translation of the original Latin into English. With an index, in which are adapted the modern names to the antient; and with a preface, in which is included a plan for a general history of the county (1788)
http://www.archive.org/details/wiltshireextract00saliiala

Which could be very handy - for those who don't know, Wiltshire is the Salisbury area of Pendragon.

Added

Historia Francorum by Gregory of Tours
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/gregory-hist.html#book3
The link is to book three which is after 511 when the Franks start to affect Britain.

Through Prof. Muhlberger's blog: Tips for Amateur Historians

http://medievalhistorygeek.blogspot.com/2010/04/another-tip-for-amateurs-library.html

This collection of photographs sparked some good story ideas:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hornbeam/sets/72157601566517961/

http://www.domesdaybook.net/


Web site to purchase program for mapping data from the Domesday Book. Looks really cool.

OMG: £6.12 - that's a few hundred quid cheaper than last time I checked!

Hmm actually comes out to just under £10 with VAT and postage. Still a very tempting offer.

A review by a domesday historian (https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/5414/03.12.11.html?sequence=1)

http://salisbury.art.virginia.edu/

The Salisbury Project: focusing mostly on the cathedral, but with a good deal of information on the rest of Old Sarum.

http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=282
yeah this is pretty spot on

Whew, loved this!

http://www.youtube.com/user/historyteachers#p/u/4/E4pGFGkHOd8

http://beachcombing.wordpress.com/
Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog is the work of a probably-pseudonymous adorable English academic, who often writes about--what else?--bizarre history, including a fair amount of medieval history. The most relevant are probably his pieces on the grave of Arthur and Guinevere at Glastonbury:
http://beachcombing.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/arthurs-grave-at-glastonbury/
http://beachcombing.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/arthurs-grave-at-glastonbury-revisitied-the-irish-connection/

It's very well-written and clever, do give it a read.

Vortigen studies.

Just came across this. My apologies if posted previously.

http://www.vortigernstudies.org.uk/vortigernhomepage.htm

DID YOU KNOW that the website for the 1995 film First Knight starring Richard Gere and Sean Connery is still available?
http://replay.waybackmachine.org/19991112043328/http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/firstknight/index.html

Be sure to check out the multimedia section, where you can download a clip from the film weighing in at a monstrous 986k. Gosh, I hope nobody has to make a phone call in the next hour :(

Google Books has an edition of Le Morte d'Arthur using the chapter divisions from Caxton, readable online or as PDF download.

~ http://tinyurl.com/le-morte-darthur-caxton

I visited that page, but I don't see how to read or download the book.

See the attached screen capture for a quick-and-dirty guide to the Google Books interface.

I get decode error when trying to open the image.
"Unsupported JPEG process/compression: SOF type 0cx3"

This strikes me as a potentially handy tool for online play: a virtual corkboard to which one can attach a plethora of virtual post-it notes. I created my own little test grid with Battle Zones and Battle Rounds to chart round-by-round action per the advanced Battle rules.

~ http://corkboard.me

I get decode error when trying to open the image. "Unsupported JPEG process/compression: SOF type 0cx3"

Can't help you there, mate. I downloaded the image after posting to double-check that it wasn't corrupted in the attachment process, and it was perfectly readable. Jiggered it a bit, will replace the prior attachment with the new file. See if that's any better.

I get decode error when trying to open the image. "Unsupported JPEG process/compression: SOF type 0cx3"

Can't help you there, mate. I downloaded the image after posting to double-check that it wasn't corrupted in the attachment process, and it was perfectly readable. Jiggered it a bit, will replace the prior attachment with the new file. See if that's any better.


That new pic works, and triggers a new question, lol. The buttons you've circled don't exist when I look at the page, in the 3 browsers I tried (Opera, Firefox, IE).
I wonder if it's a regional thing. It wouldn't be the first time Google makes a feature available in the US, and rolls it out to other countries later.

I wonder if it's a regional thing.

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised, it being Google.

I've linked to Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog a few times in this thread already, but when I saw this post I couldn't resist doing so again:
http://www.strangehistory.net/2011/06/15/king-arthur-in-australia/
If the possibility of an Aussie Arthur doesn't fill you with inspiration, then your imagination is broken.

This is an excellent resource for ancient sites that I have used many times. The search function is particularly useful. Put in the county or nearby monument that you know of and scroll down the result page to the map at the bottom. You'll see the site you asked for plus anything else in the vicinity, dotted around as little icons. Click on the icons to view more info. Very helpful because it will throw up tons of stuff that you're not likely to have heard of or seen before.

I have used this to populate many areas in my campaign, to add myths, side stories and general colour.

http://www.megalithic.co.uk/

I've posted it before, but Will's Commmonplace Book has recently begun posting some stuff relevant to Pendragon instead of politics or astronomy.

Horses as a Force Multiplier for Armored Combat (http://willscommonplacebook.blogspot.com/2012/02/horses-as-force-multiplier-for-armored.html)

Muscles vs. Armor: Blunt Impact (http://willscommonplacebook.blogspot.com/2012/02/muscle-vs-armor-blunt-impact.html)

A Taxonomy of Muscles vs. Armor (http://willscommonplacebook.blogspot.com/2012/02/taxonomy-of-muscle-vs-armor.html) (which inspired my ill-considered alternate sword rules thread)

I came across this today:

http://www.web-books.com/Classics/ON/B1/B1591/16MB1591.html

Scroll about halfway down the page to "The Accolade" illustration, then start reading a few paragraphs before that to get a detailed account of how knights were "made" and, below the illustration, a very neat list of precepts they were supposed to uphold.