Table of Contents

Part 1 An Arthurian adventure analysed: the calendar of Arthurian romance; the challenge; tournaments and the spring marriage; fire from heaven; severed heads and sacred waters; healing blood and the dolorous stroke. Part 2 Further aspects of paganism in the romances: births, lives and deaths of heroes and heroines; the nature of paganism in Britain; ceremonial and ritual. Part 3 The physical background to the romances: constructions; the geography of Arthurian romance; time and place; the once and future king. Part 4 Gazetteer: places whose location can be roughly established; unidentified places. Appendix: who's who in the romances.