"This name was pulled as a reference from a poem by Lord Tennyson called ""Idylls of the King"" about the legend of King Arthur. Shatto laid out Avalon's streets, and introduced it as a vacation destination to the general public. He did this by hosting a real estate auction in Avalon in 1887, and purchasing a steamer ship for daily access to the island. In the summer of 1888, the small pioneer village kicked off its opening season as a booming little resort town. Despite Shatto's efforts, in a few years he had to default on his loan and the"
"was Avalon. Geoffrey of Monmouth asserted that Arthur ""was mortally wounded"" at Camlann but was then carried ""to the Isle of Avallon (""insulam Auallonis"") to be cured of his wounds"", with the implication that he would at some point be cured and return therefrom made explicit in Geoffrey's later ""Vita Merlini"". Another tradition held that Arthur was awaiting his return beneath some mountain or hill. First referenced by Gervase of Tilbury in his ""Otia Imperialia"" (c.1211), this was maintained in British folklore into the 19th century and Loomis and others have taken it as a tale of Arthur's residence in"
"Kent in charge of it. Llwyd's manuscript contains a report regarding an alleged 1179 discovery at Glastonbury Abbey at the island of Avalon (a/k/a Island of Apples) of the burial place of King Arthur and his wife. He describes it as located fifteen feet down in the ground in an elder treetrunk coffin with a cross of lead. It is referenced to Matthew Paris as being recorded about 10 years after the discovery. The inscription on the cross was recorded to be <poem> </poem> Llwyd details the bones found as "" mervelouse biggenesse "" and the probable cause of Arthur's"
"in his later ""Vita Merlini"", Arthur was then taken to the isle of Avalon in hope that he could be saved. Geoffrey has Arthur delivered to Avalon and Morgen (Morgan le Fay) by Taliesin, while later authors including those of the Vulgate cycles and ""Le Morte d'Arthur"" would have Morgan and others arrive in a boat to take him away. Some accounts, such as ""Morte Arthur"" and ""Morte Arthure"", as well as the commentary by Gerald of Wales, declare that Arthur died in Avalon (identifying it as Glastonbury) and has been buried there. Geoffrey gives a possibility (but not assurance)"
"to destroy the idea of the possibility of King Arthur's messianic return: The burial discovery ensured that in later romances, histories based on them and in the popular imagination Glastonbury became increasingly identified with Avalon, an identification that continues strongly today. The later development of the legends of the Holy Grail and Joseph of Arimathea by Robert de Boron interconnected these legends with Glastonbury and with Avalon, an identification which also seems to be made in ""Perlesvaus"". The popularity of Arthurian romances has meant this area of the Somerset Levels has today become popularly described as the Vale of Avalon."
"though not an eyewitness account was given by Giraldus Cambrensis in his ""De principis instructione"" (""Instruction of a Prince"", c. 1193) and recollected in his ""Speculum Ecclesiae"", c. 1216 according to which the abbot, Henry de Sully, commissioned a search, discovering at the depth of a massive hollowed oak trunk containing two skeletons. Above it, under the covering stone, according to Giraldus, was a leaden cross with the unmistakably specific inscription """" (""Here lies interred the famous King Arthur on the Isle of Avalon""). According to Giraldus, the digging for the tomb was prompted by the intelligence obtained by Henry"
"of the Bituriges territory. Geoffrey Ashe points out that Arthur is said by Geoffrey of Monmouth to have crossed into Gaul twice, once to help a Roman emperor and once to subdue a civil war. Riothamus did both, assuming that he was a king in Britain as well as Armorica. Arthur is also said to have been betrayed by one of his advisers, and Riothamus was betrayed by one of his supposed allies. Finally, it is well known how King Arthur was carried off to Avalon (called ""insula Auallonis"" by Geoffrey of Monmouth, the first author to mention the legendary"
"cause the remaining warriors to drop down dead, King Arthur watched as Doctor Doom flew away. Iron Man and Doctor Doom later returned to the present. After King Arthur's body was buried in Avalon, dark forces later stole it and hid in a location. However, they could not contain his spirit. Captain Britain later came under the attack of the same dark forces where he was assisted by King Arthur's ghost who took him to where his body is. Merlin later enlisted Black Knight, Captain Britain, and Jackdaw into overcoming the Watchers at King Arthur's resting place so that he"
"Avalon (video game) Avalon (with the tagline The 3D Adventure Movie on the box cover) is a game written by Steve Turner for the ZX Spectrum and published by Hewson Consultants in 1984. Avalon is set in Britain in 408AD, during the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. The player controls Maroc, a ""lore-seeker"" who has been given a staff and map by a strange old woman and pointed in the direction of a place called Glass Hill on the isle of Avalon, where a quest to defeat the Lord of Chaos begins. The name ""Avalon"" is taken from King"
"vaguely based on Glastonbury Tor (albeit with a tree instead of the tower) was incorporated into the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. As the athletes entered the stadium, their flags were displayed on the terraces of the model. The Tor seems to have been called ""Ynys yr Afalon"" (meaning ""The Isle of Avalon"") by the Britons and is believed by some, including the 12th and 13th century writer Gerald of Wales, to be the Avalon of Arthurian legend. The Tor has been associated with the name Avalon, and identified with King Arthur, since the alleged discovery"
"the seat of a viscounty dependent on the duchy of Burgundy; on the death of Charles the Bold in 1477, it passed under the royal authority. The castle, mentioned as early as the seventh century, has utterly disappeared. A theory exists which proposes that the Isle of Avalon mentioned in Arthurian legend is, in fact, Avallon in Burgundy. Geoffrey Ashe first mentioned the French Avallon theory in his 1985 book, ""The Discovery of King Arthur"". His theory is that ""King Arthur"" is based on the historical Romano-British supreme king Riothamus, who reigned between 454–470, and whose life and campaigns have"
"was named ""Slöngvi"" and another one ""Raven"", which he had taken from Áli. From this horse he had bred a horse also named ""Raven"" which he sent to king Godgest of Hålogaland, but Godgest could not manage it and fell from it and died, in Omd on the island of Andøya. Aðils himself died in a similar way at the Dísablót. Aðils was riding around the Disa shrine when Raven stumbled and fell, and the king was thrown forward and hit his skull on a stone. The Swedes called him a great king and buried him at Uppsala. He was"
"Trevilian family arms, found throughout the house. The source story of the arms is the Lyonesse legend of Trevilian, as follows: Lyonesse were the lands, now submerged, on the west coast that was said to be the lands of Camelot of King Arthur and the site of the final mortal battle between King Arthur and Mordred. Tennyson's ""Idylls of the King"" claims Lyonesse as the final resting place of King Arthur himself. Perhaps this is why the grave of the king cannot be found, as it lies beneath the sea. Roman writings also speak of a Leonis, now submerged off"
"the realm of Faerie, indicating that the island may exist within it or that the two may be synonymous. During his visit to Faerie, Timothy Hunter encounters a sleeping Arthur in a cave guarded by a giant and Thomas the Rhymer. Thomas claims that Arthur ""sleeps on Avalon and he sleeps here."" He explains that, the mystical nature of Faerie being what it is, this sleeping king figure represents both Arthur and other legendary heroes destined to return, such as Brian Boru. Avalon is also the name of a fictional planet in the 30th century of the DC Universe, named"
"chose Stonehenge. The king sent Merlin, Uther Pendragon (King Arthur's father), and 15,000 knights, to remove it from Ireland, where it had been constructed on Mount Killaraus by the Giants. They slew 7,000 Irish, but as the knights tried to move the rocks with ropes and force, they failed. Then Merlin, using ""gear"" and skill, easily dismantled the stones and sent them over to Britain, where Stonehenge was dedicated. After it had been rebuilt near Amesbury, Geoffrey further narrates how first Ambrosius Aurelianus, then Uther Pendragon, and finally Constantine III, were buried inside the ""Giants' Ring of Stonehenge"". In another"
"after the legendary island. Ruled by a king and served by knights bearing weapons shaped like oak branches, the planet exists in a medieval stage of technology. The King's rule is challenged by a wizard calling himself ""Lord Romdur"", who turns out to be Mordru in disguise. The Legion of Super-Heroes visits the planet, where Star Boy uses his mass-inducing powers to collapse Mordru's castle, burying him alive. He remains there until freed by Darkseid. In the miniseries ""Camelot 3000"", King Arthur is explicitly shown to be asleep below Glastonbury Tor, following the tradition that this location is Avalon. However,"
"finding an origin for the Grail of medieval romance in earlier Celtic myth. The novel also plays up the associations between Glastonbury and King Arthur's burial place of the island of Avalon, which have been present since the 20th century. At the novel's end, much of the city is flooded, in reference to the myth that held Glastonbury to be the original Avalon. The novel closes with a drowning John Geard looking to Glastonbury Tor (itself referred to repeatedly as the domain of the mythic Welsh spirit Gwyn-ap-Nudd) in hopes of seeing the Grail, followed by a short passage comparing"
"as soon as he finishes his prayer, she drops down dead. Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12-century ""Vita Merlini"" introduces the magical island of Avalon, the paradisal ""Isle of Apples"", as ruled by the nine entirely benevolent enchantress-sisters, known as great healers and capable of shape-shifting and other magic: Morgen, Moronoe, Mazoe, Gliten, Glitonea, Gliton, Tyronoe, and either Thiten and Thiton or two sisters both named Thitis of whom one of them distinguished as ""best known for her cither"". The sisters receive the dying Arthur from Taliesin, delivered to them in a hope they can revive him. Their beautiful, wise and powerful"
"Avalon (novel) Avalon is a 1965 novel by the American author Anya Seton. It is a fictional story about Saint Rumon and Merewyn, set against a broad historical background of Anglo-Saxon England and the Viking expansion to Iceland and Greenland. It follows their journey and acceptance into the English royal court, Merewyn's kidnapping by Vikings, Rumon's epic search for her and their ultimate reunion back in England. The story begins in the year 972, when Romieux de Provence, a young nobleman descended from Charlemagne and King Alfred, leaves his native Kingdom of Arles for England and the royal court of"
"been identified as the location of Camelot, including many of those listed above. Others include: A possible location of Avalon consistent with the theory of a northern Arthur, is the Roman fort of Aballava. Aballava, also called Avallana, was at the western end of Hadrian's Wall near the modern settlement of Burgh-by-Sands, Cumbria. Twelve of Arthur's battles were recorded by Nennius in ""Historia Brittonum"". Locations associated with Arthurian legend The following is a list and assessment of sites and places associated with King Arthur and the Arthurian legend in general. Given the lack of concrete historical knowledge about one of"
"another time on an Island of Women. The dreamer who visits the medieval English ""Isle of Ladies"" encounters his own lady on a glass island. She has accompanied the queen of this isle from another island where apples grow, apples that sustain the longevity of these ladies. The name Avalon has been derived from ""island of apples"", and a boat full of ladies came to take the mortally-wounded King Arthur to Avalon in Malory's tale. And earlier in Malory's ""Le Morte d'Arthur"", in his ""Book of Sir Tristram de Lyones"", a tournament is arranged beside a Castle of Maidens. Sir"
"finally Merewyn is summoned to Tavistock Abbey, where she reconciles with Rumon before he dies. Rumon makes one last request that Merewyn admit her true birth at court. She fulfills his wish, admitting her Viking parentage to the King and Queen. Queen Emma sympathises with Merewyn's story, and Merewyn's husband Wulfric declares that he does not care about her lineage. Merewyn then settles down to a comfortable life with Wulfric. Avalon (novel) Avalon is a 1965 novel by the American author Anya Seton. It is a fictional story about Saint Rumon and Merewyn, set against a broad historical background of"
"Isle of Avalon, Arthur's nephew named Guinguemar (a derivative of the legendary Breton hero Guingamor). In Layamon's ""Brut"", Arthur is taken to Avalon to be healed there through means of magic water by a distinctively Anglo-Saxon redefinition of Geoffrey's Morgen: an elf queen of Avalon named Argante. In the narrative of Alliterative ""Morte Arthure"", relatively devoid of supernatural elements, it is physicians from Salerno who try, and fail, to save Arthur's life in Avalon. Many later versions of the Arthurian legend (including the best-known, ""Le Morte d'Arthur"" by Thomas Malory) have Morgan (by this time Arthur's sister in the narrative)"
"from Dumbarton Rock, known as ""Alt Clut"", the rock on the Clyde. During the Viking Age, perhaps following the sack of Dumbarton Rock in 878, Govan is believed to have been one of the major centres of the Kingdom of Strathclyde. According to John of Fordun, Constantine, a 7th-century king of Strathclyde, founded a monastery at Govan, where he died and was buried. In 1855, an elaborately carved sandstone sarcophagus was found during digging in the churchyard. It is now kept inside the church. It may have been used to contain the body or relics of Constantine, although the style"
"Arthur after claiming Arthur's beard. Other sites with Arthurian connections include Bwlch y Saethau, on the ridge between Snowdon and Y Lliwedd, where Arthur himself is said to have died. A cairn, ""Carnedd Arthur"", was erected at the site and was still standing as late as 1850, but no longer exists. According to the folklore, Arthur had Bedivere throw his sword ""Excalibur"" into Glaslyn, where Arthur's body was later placed in a boat to be carried away to Afallon. Arthur's men then retreated to a cave on the slopes of Y Lliwedd, where they are said to sleep until such"
"south bank of the Aube River. It consisted of a skeleton buried with a number of gold and garnet cloisonné jewels and ornaments, including a gold ring inscribed , and accompanied by two swords with hilts encased in gold. The nature of the grave goods identified the burial as that of a Germanic warrior who lived in the 5th century. The antiquarian who first described this find, Achille Peigné-Delacourt (1797–1881), optimistically claimed that the elite burial could be that of Theodoric I, the Visigoth king, who had undisputedly been slain in the nearby Battle of Châlons. According to Peigné-Delacourt's theory,"
"parallels to the accounts of ""King Arthur"" in the first medieval accounts of King Arthur by Geoffrey of Monmouth (""Historia Regum Britanniae"", c. 1136). According to Ashe, in the year 470, Riothamus disappeared (and presumably died) in the neighborhood of Avallon after being defeated in the battle of Déols by Euric king of the Visigoths, who the Western Roman Emperor Anthemius had hired him to fight against. This, and other aspects of his reign, made Ashe propose him as a candidate for the historical King Arthur, with Avallon becoming the Arthurian Avalon. No ancient source mentioning Riothamus places him anywhere"
"casualties. The fleet then sailed to Kintyre, and Óspakr-Hákon fell ill and died. The ""Chronicle of Mann"", however, specifically states that Óspakr-Hákon was struck by a stone and killed, and later buried on Iona. The chronicle continues by stating that Óláfr then took control of the fleet whereupon he led it to Mann, where he and Guðrøðr divided the kingdom between themselves—with Óláfr retaining Mann, and Guðrøðr controlling the Hebridean portions; in fact, it is possible that Hákon may have originally intended for Óláfr and Guðrøðr to split the kingdom of Mann and the Isles between themselves. According to the"
"tradition, while in others (e.g., Lamia), they were seen as displacing the Classical beings. 15th-century poet and monk John Lydgate wrote that King Arthur was crowned in ""the land of the fairy"" and taken in his death by four fairy queens, to Avalon, where he lies under a ""fairy hill"", until he is needed again. Fairies appear as significant characters in William Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", which is set simultaneously in the woodland and in the realm of Fairyland, under the light of the moon and in which a disturbance of nature caused by a fairy dispute creates tension"
"Garcia de Salazar's Spanish summary of the Post-Vulgate ""Roman du Graal"", Morgan then uses her magic to hide Avalon in mist. Arthur's fate is usually left untold; in the Stanzaic ""Morte Arthur"", the Archbishop of Canterbury later receives Arthur's dead body and buries it at Glastonbury. Conversely, Stephen of Rouen's chronicle ""Draco Normannicus"" contains a fictional letter from King Arthur to Henry II of England, in which Arthur claims that he has been healed of his wounds and made immortal by his ""deathless/eternal nymph"" sister Morgan on Avalon, using the island's restorative herbs. Morgan also features as an immortal ruler"
"Sir Bedivere threw it toward the lake where it was caught by the hand of the Lady of the Lake. After a night has passed, nine women dressed as queens came and loaded King Arthur's body onto a barge and rowed it across the lake as Merlin showed them the way into Avalon. As King Arthur humbled Merlin, Sir Mogard got jealous of King Arthur liking Merlin. When Sir Mogard called Merlin a fraud, he was humbled when Merlin animated a suit of armor as his Black Knight. King Arthur granted Sir Percy refuge when his lands in Scandia were"
"of Drungary of the Watch, i.e. commander of the imperial bodyguard, and replaced as ""strategos"" of Charsianon by Constantine Doukas. About a year later, he fell again under Leo's suspicion, and was ordered to return to his family's estates at Charsianon. Again the reason is unknown; perhaps, according to Cheynet and Vannier, it was a result of the unreliability of the Armenian lords he had welcomed into the Empire, who frequently went over to the Arabs. On the way, he died after taking poison by one of his servants, and was buried on Spynin, the summit of Mount Aran. While"
"the mound, before making an orderly withdrawal to their ships. On the morning of 3 October, the Norwegians returned ashore to collect their dead and burn their beached vessels. For several days, Haakon's forces laid off the coast of Arran. After rendezvousing with the returning fleet that had plundered Lennox, Haakon's entire forces made for the Hebrides. At Mull he rewarded a number of his Norse-Gaelic vassals with grants of lands. By the end of October, the Norwegian fleet reached Orkney. In mid December, the Norwegian king fell ill and died at the Bishop's Palace, and was temporarily buried in"