At the heart of all of the Arthurian legend is the Land itself. To walk
through the land is to feel the legends and history itself. Britain
has two kinds of geography: the outer, visible one of hills, valleys,
trees, rivers, and plants; and the inner, mysterious, myth-haunted
one which consists of places that are often no more than names, like
Camelot, Camlan, the supposed site of Arthur's last battle, or Badon,
the site of his greatest fight against the Saxons. Rivers of ink have
been spilled by various commentators in their efforts to identify
these places, many of which have remained undiscovered for the simple
reason that they were never a part of this world at all, but myth
and legend. This is not to say that they never existed, only that
the physical places ascribed to them are as often as not false. |
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