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• Avalon, the Roleplaying Game
• King Arthur: Myths and Legends
• King Arthur:A Story of his Life
• King Arthur: Map of Britain
• Camelot - Kingdom of Arthur
• Tintagel - King Arthur's Parentage
• The Round Table: Myths and Legends
• Merlin: Story of Siege Perilous
• Geoffrey Monmouth: Kings of Britain
• Glastonbury Tor
• Avalon on Catalina Island
• The Sisterhood of Avalon
• King Arthur Ency Britannia
• Tintagel isle, Cornwall
• Tintagel isle, Cornwall
• The Wicca Connection
• Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Strawberry Fair, Cambridge

As with many of the Arthurian myths and legends, the truth of the matter has been debated for centuries. However, should you wish to visit one of the local areas rumoured to be the site of the castle a 16th century author, John Leland, claimed that the name came from the local traditions of Somerset. Leland claimed that while visiting Somerset he was told that 'Camalat' was the name of a hill by the village of South Cadbury and that King Arthur had resided there.

There was no Camelot in the early tradition by Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace and Layamon. These early Arthurian authors say that Arthur's capital was in Caerleon (Caerleon-on-Usk) in Wales. The romancers' versions of Camelot draw on earlier traditions of Arthur's fabulous court. The tale Culhwch and Olwen, associated with the Mabinogion and perhaps written in the 11th century, places this in Celliwig, an unknown locale in Cornwall. Whether the associations with Cadbury or Cornwall are genuine one or not is not what most people find alluring about the Camelot legend. Instead, it has forever been associated with chivalry, a magical beauty (which indeed can still be associated with much of that area of England today) and a certain fatalism about the direction King Arthur took his country in: peace, unity and individuals fighting for honourable principles.