Camelot
was the most famous castle in the medieval legends of King Arthur, and
where, according to legend, he reigned over Briton before the Saxon
conquest. At Camelot, Arthur established a brilliant court and seated
the greatest and most chivalrous warriors in Europe, the Knights of the
Round Table. Camelot was the starting point of the Quest for the Holy
Grail, and by the 1200's, it came to symbolize the center of the
Arthurian world.
The oldest
known stories of Arthur don't refer to Camelot by name. It is first
mentioned explicitly in the romance Lancelot written by Chretien de
Troyes in the twelfth century. There are many theories as to the
location of Camelot, one of these being at Tintagel. |
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