Dozmary Pool is identified by some people with the lake in which, according to Arthurian legend, Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur to The Lady of the Lake.

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Indeed John Morris, the English historian who specialized in the study of the institutions of the Roman Empire and the history of Sub-Roman Britain, suggested in his book The Age of Arthur that as the descendants of Romanized Britons looked back to a golden age of peace and prosperity under Rome, the name " Camelot " of Arthurian legend may have referred to the capital of Britannia ( Camulodunum, modern Colchester ) in Roman times.

Camelot has become a permanent fixture in interpretations of the Arthurian legend.

The symbolism of Camelot so impressed Alfred, Lord Tennyson that he wrote up a prose sketch on the castle as one of his earliest attempts to treat the Arthurian legend.

* Sites and places associated with Arthurian legend

The sword was associated with the Arthurian legend very early.

Caliburnus or Caliburn became Excalibur, Escalibor, and other variations when the Arthurian legend entered into French literature.

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Other dishes include Guinevere, Tristan and Isolde after characters in Arthurian legend, much of which takes place in Cornwall.

Another belief held by the group that Gardner found amusing was that a lamp hanging from one of the ceilings was the disguised holy grail of Arthurian legend.

Sir Galahad, a hero of Arthurian legend, detail of a painting by George Frederic Watts

Although the themes, events and characters of the Arthurian legend varied widely from text to text, and there is no one canonical version, Geoffrey's version of events often served as the starting point for later stories.

As a result of this popularity, Geoffrey's Historia Regum Britanniae was enormously influential on the later medieval development of the Arthurian legend.

However, the most significant for the development of the Arthurian legend are Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, which introduces Lancelot and his adulterous relationship with Arthur's queen ( Guinevere ), extending and popularizing the recurring theme of Arthur as a cuckold, and Perceval, the Story of the Grail, which introduces the Holy Grail and the Fisher King and which again sees Arthur having a much reduced role.

Chrétien was thus " instrumental both in the elaboration of the Arthurian legend and in the establishment of the ideal form for the diffusion of that legend ", and much of what came after him in terms of the portrayal of Arthur and his world built upon the foundations he had laid.

Similarly, Lancelot and his cuckolding of Arthur with Guinevere became one of the classic motifs of the Arthurian legend, although the Lancelot of the prose Lancelot ( c. 1225 ) and later texts was a combination of Chrétien's character and that of Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet.

These works were the Estoire del Saint Grail, the Estoire de Merlin, the Lancelot propre ( or Prose Lancelot, which made up half the entire Vulgate Cycle on its own ), the Queste del Saint Graal and the Mort Artu, which combine to form the first coherent version of the entire Arthurian legend.

The development of the medieval Arthurian cycle and the character of the " Arthur of romance " culminated in Le Morte d ' Arthur, Thomas Malory's retelling of the entire legend in a single work in English in the late 15th century.

King Arthur and the Arthurian legend were not entirely abandoned, but until the early 19th century the material was taken less seriously and was often used simply as vehicle for allegories of 17th-and 18th-century politics.

In recent years the portrayal of Arthur as a real hero of the 5th century has also made its way into film versions of the Arthurian legend, most notably the TV series Arthur of the Britons

However, they shared a distrust of organised religion, and, after witnessing the critically acclaimed Holy Grails enormous financial turnover, confirming an appetite among the fans for more cinematic endeavours, they soon began to seriously consider a film lampooning the New Testament era in the same way Holy Grail had lampooned Arthurian legend.

Some cities which are considered lost are ( or may be ) places of legend such as the Arthurian Camelot, Russian Kitezh, Lyonesse, Ys, the Seven Cities of Gold, Shambhala, El Dorado, and Atlantis.

* Mark of Cornwall, a figure from Arthurian legend

While chivalric romances abound, particularly notable literary portrayals of knighthood include Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, and Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote, as well as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur and other Arthurian tales ( Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, etc.

A later English Arthurian romance, The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell ( c. 1450 ), uses much of the same elements of the Wife of Bath's tale, yet changes the setting to the court of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

Sir James George Frazer in The Golden Bough noted the phallic nature of the spear and suggested that in the Arthurian Legends the spear or lance functioned as a symbol of male fertility, paired with the Grail ( as a symbol of female fertility ).

* Vinaver, Eugène, " Sir Thomas Malory " in Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, Loomis, Roger S.

In Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur, Guildford is identified with Astolat of Arthurian renown.

Sir Lancelot ( or Launcelot ) du Lac (,,, or ; and or ) was one of the Knights of the Round Table in the Arthurian legend.

Sir Galahad (; Middle Welsh: Gwalchavad, sometimes referred to as Galeas () or Galath (), in Arthurian legend, is a knight of King Arthur's Round Table and one of the three achievers of the Holy Grail.

The story of Sir Galahad and his quest for the Holy Grail is a relatively late addition to the Arthurian legend.

The original conception of Sir Galahad, whose adult exploits are first recounted in the fourth book of the thirteenth century Old French Arthurian epic the Vulgate Cycle, may derive from the Cistercian Order.

Three ships of the Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary have been named Sir Galahad, after the knight of Arthurian legend.

* Sir Lancelot from Arthurian legend

Another parallel is the tale of Sir Balin in the Arthurian Legend.

* Sir Balan, the brother of Sir Balin in Arthurian legend

* Sir Lionel, a knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend

Another parallel is the tale of Sir Balin in the Arthurian Legend.

In Arthurian legend, Sir Kay (, Kai, or Kei, or Cei ; ; French: Keu ; French Romance: Queux ; Old French: Kès or Kex ) is Sir Ector's son and King Arthur's foster brother and later seneschal, as well as one of the first Knights of the Round Table.

" Based on a more exhaustive study of the manuscript alongside Caxton's edition, Vinaver reached similar conclusions, and in his 1947 edition The Works of Sir Thomas Malory argued that Malory had in fact not written a single book, but produced a series of Arthurian tales which were internally consistent and independent works.

Her character is perhaps most fully developed in Sir Thomas Malory's 15th-century compilation of Arthurian legends Le Morte d ' Arthur, in which she appears as Morgause, daughter of Lady Igraine and her first husband Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall, and sister of Morgan le Fay ( the future mother of Ywain ) and Elaine.

* Sir Ironside, a character in the Arthurian legend