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Avalon (/ ˈ æ v ə l ɒ n /) [note 1] is a mythical island featured in the Arthurian legend.It first appeared in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 Historia Regum Britanniae as a place of magic where King Arthur's sword Excalibur was made and later where Arthur was taken to recover from being gravely wounded at the Battle of Camlann.
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 the most potent figures in British mythology, it is unlikely that any definitive conclusions about the claims for these places will ever be established; nevertheless it is both interesting and important to try ...
Knight of the Isle of Not-Knowing, son of Hector the Brown, Dragon slayer, Segwarides† Le Morte d'Arthur, Prose Tristan: Son of Esclabor, brother of Safir and Palamedes: Taliesin: Historical figure The Welsh Triads, Story of Taliesin, Alfred, Idylls of the King: Bard to King Arthur, oldest known Welsh poet Tom a Lincoln† The Red Rose Knight
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Corbenic, Isle of Joy Elaine ( Helaine , Oisine ) or Elizabeth ( Eliabel , Elizabel , Elizabet , Heliabel , Helizabel ), also known as Amite ( Amide , Amides , Anite , Aude , Enite ), [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and identified as the " Grail Maiden " or the " Grail Bearer ", [ 3 ] is a character from Arthurian legend .
Detail of The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon (completed 1898), by Edward Burne-Jones.Shown in the center is Arthur lying on his deathbed. King Arthur's messianic return is a mythological motif in the legend of King Arthur, which claims that he will one day return in the role of a messiah to save his people.
Pellinor's attributed arms. Pellinore is a major figure in the 13th-century Post-Vulgate prose cycle and the sections of Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur based on it. There, as son of King Pellam and brother of Kings Pelles (the Fisher King) and Alain, he is most famous for his endless hunt of the Questing Beast, which he is tracking when King Arthur first meets him.
Cath Palug (also Cath Paluc, Cath Balug, Cath Balwg, literally 'Palug's Cat') was a monstrous cat in Welsh mythology associated with Arthurian legend. Given birth to in Gwynedd by the pig Henwen of Cornwall, the cat was to haunt the Isle of Anglesey until Kay went to the island to hunt it down.