Avalon
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Avalon is an 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 la
The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon by Edward Burne-Jones
James Archer, La Mort d'Arthur (1860)
"Lady of the Isle of Avelyon", George Frampton's relief panel at 2 Temple Place in London
Ship-themed attributed arms of the Knight of Escalot
Glastonbury Tor
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Glastonbury Tor is a hill near Glastonbury in the English county of Somerset, topped by the roofless tower of St Michael's Church, a Grade I listed building. The site is managed by the National Trust
Avalon
…in the wake of Geoffrey, some of them also linking Avalon with the legend of the Holy Grail. Avalon has often been identified as the former island of Glastonbury Tor. An early and long-standing belief involves the purported discovery of Arthur's remains and their later grand reburial, in accordance with the medieval…
Glastonbury Tor in 2017
Glastonbury Tor and Street seen through the mist, as viewed from Walton Hill
Terraces on the Tor
The last few yards of the concrete path up the Tor.