Barber, Richard W. (3 January 2004). The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674013902– via Google Books. Adams, Douglas Q. The Indo-European Word for 'Apple'. Indogermanische Forschungen, 90, 1985, pp. 79–82.

Matthews, John (25 March 2003). Sir Gawain: Knight of the Goddess. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781620550588– via Google Books. When Caillean grows old, Sianna succeeds her as High Priestess. Her daughter by Gawen succeeds her in turn, making Sianna the matriarch of a line of High Priestesses. Please do not begin this course if you do not have the necessary time, focus and energy to give to it.Eilan ( Julia Coelia Helena) – Daughter of Prince Coelius, consort of Constantius, mother of Constantine, and priestess of Avalon The full training course with its many circles held in Glastonbury over three years is the best way to learn to become a Priestess of Avalon, but sometimes it is not possible to do this. Priestess of Avalon Kathy Jones, the course founder, offers this opportunity of distance training to suitable applicants working in conjunction with Priestess Tutor Kit Crowther and Kathy’s book Priestess of Avalon, Priestess of the Goddess (Ariadne Publications). Medieval suggestions for the location of Avalon ranged far beyond Glastonbury. They included paradisal underworld realms equated with the other side of the Earth at the antipodes, as well as Mongibel ( Mount Etna) in Sicily [71] (associated there with the optical mirage phenomenon of Fata Morgana) and other, unnamed locations in the Mediterranean. [72] Pomponius Mela's ancient Roman description of the island of Île de Sein, off the coast of Brittany, was notably one of Geoffrey of Monmouth's original inspirations for his Avalon. [73] Bardsey Island (Ynys Enlli) seen from Aberdaron (Braich y Pwll) in 2009 Kagay, Donald J.; Vann, Theresa M., eds. (1998). On the Social Origins of Medieval Institutions: Essays in Honor of Joseph F. O'Callaghan. Leiden: Brill. p.61. ISBN 9004110968. The Lady of the Lake has many names, in modern times, Vivienne. She gifted the sword Excalibur to King Arthur in his fight against the Saxons. She knew the secrets of the old ways and of the Isle of Avalon and because of her wisdom, she was high priestess. To connect with her, study and dive into the water element. Scry in a lake or with a scrying mirror to speak to the Lady of the Lake. Honor the moon and its cycles, just as Vivienne once did in the lost civilization of Avalon.

De l'illa de Mallorca a l'Illa Encantada: arrels artúriques de La Faula de Guillem de Torroella". Europeana Collections. Lady of Avalon is a 1997 historical fantasy novel by American writers Marion Zimmer Bradley and Diana L. Paxson. It is the sequel to The Forest House and the prequel to The Mists of Avalon. Even if it's true that she came from paradise, there's no way that she could be Merlin's younger sister. Loomis, Roger Sherman Wales and the Arthurian Legend, pub. University of Wales Press, Cardiff 1956 and reprinted by Folcroft Press 1973, Chapter 5 King Arthur and the Antipodes, pp. 70–71. Further theories connect her to the Welsh lake fairies known as the Gwragedd Annwn (including a Lady of the Lake unrelated to the legend of Arthur [13]), the Celtic water goddess Covianna (worshipped in the Romano-British times as Coventina), [14] [15] and the Irish goddess of the underworld Bé Finn ( Bébinn, mother of the hero Fráech). [16] It has been also noted how the North Caucasian goddess Satana ( Satanaya) from the Nart sagas is both associated with water and helps the Scythian hero Batraz gain his magic sword. [17] Possible literary prototypes include two characters from Geoffrey of Monmouth's Vita Merlini: Merlin's one-time wife Guendoloena and Merlin's half-sister Ganieda. [18] Another possibility involves Diana, the Roman goddess of hunt and nature, [19] a direct or spiritual descent from whom is actually explicitly attributed to Viviane within some French prose narratives.When her True Name is released, a utopia can be seen beyond the distance within the dreamscape at the tip of her staff. Geoffrey of Monmouth in his pseudo-chronicle Historia Regum Britanniae ("The History of the Kings of Britain", c. 1136) calls the place Insula Avallonis, meaning the "Isle of Avallon" in Latin. In his later Vita Merlini ("The Life of Merlin", c. 1150), he calls it Insula Pomorum, the "Isle of Fruit Trees" (from Latin pōmus "fruit tree"). The name is generally considered to be of Welsh origin (a Cornish or Breton origin is also possible), from Old Welsh, Old Cornish, or Old Breton aball or avallen(n), "apple tree, fruit tree" (cf. Welsh afal, from Proto-Celtic * abalnā, literally "fruit-bearing (thing)"). [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Carey, John (1999). "The finding of Arthur's grave: a story from Clonmacnoise?". In Carey, John; Koch, John T.; Lambert, Pierre-Yves (eds.). Ildánach Ildírech: A Festschrift for Proinsias Mac Cana. Andover: Celtic Studies Publications. pp.1–14. ISBN 978-1-891271-01-4. Find sources: "Avalon Series"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( January 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

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Set in the Bronze Age, Sword of Avalon (2009) focuses on the forging of Excalibur and its early history. Mikantor, the "Son of a Hundred Kings" and rightful ruler of the British tribes, is sold into slavery while the cruel warlord Galid usurps control of the land. Avalon's Lady, Anderle, opposes him. Mikantor has adventures in ancient Greece and throughout Europe before returning to claim his destiny.

Accounts of the exact inscription vary, with five different versions existing. One popular today, made famous by Malory, claims "Here lies Arthur, the king that was and the king that shall be" ( Hic iacet Arthurus, rex quondam rexque futurus [59]), also known in the now-popular variant "the once and future king" ( rex quondam et futurus). The earliest is by Gerald in Liber de Principis instructione c.1193, who wrote that he viewed the cross in person and traced the lettering. His transcript reads: "Here lies buried the famous Arthurus with Wenneveria his second wife in the isle of Avalon" ( Hic jacet sepultus inclitus rex Arthurus cum Wenneveria uxore sua secunda in insula Avallonia [60]). He wrote that in the coffin were two bodies, whom Giraldus refers to as Arthur and "his queen"; the male body's bones were described as gigantic. The account of the burial by the chronicle of Margam Abbey says three bodies were found, the other being that of Mordred; Richard Barber argues that Mordred's name was airbrushed out of the story once his reputation as a traitor was appreciated. [61]

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She is the first Servant released in a Summer event to not be a swimsuit version of a previously available Servant. Stout, Adam (2016). "Savaric, Glastonbury and the making of myths: a reappraisal". Antiquaries Journal. 96: 101–15. doi: 10.1017/S0003581516000196. S2CID 163825822. What is now known as Glastonbury was, in ancient times, called the Isle of Avalon. It is virtually an island, for it is completely surrounded by marshlands. In Welsh it is called Ynys Afallach, which means the Island of Apples and this fruit once grew in great abundance. After the Battle of Camlann, a noblewoman called Morgan, later the ruler and patroness of these parts as well as being a close blood-relation of King Arthur, carried him off to the island, now known as Glastonbury, so that his wounds could be cared for. Years ago the district had also been called Ynys Gutrin in Welsh, that is the Island of Glass, and from these words the invading Saxons later coined the place-name "Glastingebury". [58] Lead cross inscribed with Arthur's epitaph, published in William Camden's Britannia (1607)