=Avalon=
@Avalon, Avallon (English Avalon, Latin: Insula Avallonis, from the Irish abal, Welsh afal) - a mythical island in the French and English versions of Celtic legends (Celt. Emain Ablach), which have survived to our time. On Avalon, the legendary King Arthur was reburied; in other versions of the legend Avalon is the seat of the Fairy Morgana .On Avalon, the fairy Melusin was brought up.
As a classic element of the Arthurian cycle, Avalon first appears with Galfried of Monmouth in the “Acts of the Kings of Britain” .According to the Galfrid Chronicle, Arthur's sword was forged on this island, and then the king himself was taken there for healing after his last battle. The image of Avalon is further developed in the Life of Merlin of the same Galfrid, where it is almost likened in its description to the antique “islands of the blessed”. In this vein, the image was borrowed by a later literary tradition, e.g. Alfred Tennyson (The Royal Idylls).
According to modern interpretation, the myth of Avalon is an echo of pre-Christian legends about the "country of bliss" associated with the Avalon peninsula in Wales, sacred to the Celts [
Lovers of Celtic antiquity tried to find the gate to the mythical Avalon in different parts of ancient Britain and Ireland, in particular, on Glastonbury Hill where at the end of the XII century a certain grave was found with the inscription: “Here the glorified King Arthur with Guinevere lies second wife, on the island of Avalon. "
=Avalon=
@Avalon, Avallon (English Avalon, Latin: Insula Avallonis, from the Irish abal, Welsh afal) - a mythical island in the French and English versions of Celtic legends (Celt. Emain Ablach), which have survived to our time. On Avalon, the legendary King Arthur was reburied; in other versions of the legend Avalon is the seat of the Fairy Morgana .On Avalon, the fairy Melusin was brought up.
As a classic element of the Arthurian cycle, Avalon first appears with Galfried of Monmouth in the “Acts of the Kings of Britain” .According to the Galfrid Chronicle, Arthur's sword was forged on this island, and then the king himself was taken there for healing after his last battle. The image of Avalon is further developed in the Life of Merlin of the same Galfrid, where it is almost likened in its description to the antique “islands of the blessed”. In this vein, the image was borrowed by a later literary tradition, e.g. Alfred Tennyson (The Royal Idylls).
According to modern interpretation, the myth of Avalon is an echo of pre-Christian legends about the "country of bliss" associated with the Avalon peninsula in Wales, sacred to the Celts [
Lovers of Celtic antiquity tried to find the gate to the mythical Avalon in different parts of ancient Britain and Ireland, in particular, on Glastonbury Hill where at the end of the XII century a certain grave was found with the inscription: “Here the glorified King Arthur with Guinevere lies second wife, on the island of Avalon. "