Arthurian Places

The legend of Arthur is rooted in real landscape long before it reached the page. Hills where he is said to sleep, caves that hide his knights, stones marking battles and the lakes that swallowed Excalibur are scattered from Cornwall to the Scottish Lowlands, woven through Welsh tradition and the older Brythonic past from which the cycle grew.

Sacred SitesYnys EnlliLlŷn Peninsula, Gwynedd, WalesYnys Enlli (Bardsey Island) is said to hold the graves of 20,000 saints, a sleeping Merlin in a glass cave guarding Britain's Thirteen Treasures — and a Welsh claim to be the true Avalon.
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