Camelot
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Date: 2021-12-10

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Camelot is a castle and court associated with the legendary King Arthur.
Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century French romances and, since the Lancelot-Grail cycle, eventually came to be described as the fantastic capital of Arthur's realm and a symbol of the Arthurian world.
The stories locate it somewhere in Great Britain and sometimes associate it with real cities, though more usually its precise location is not revealed.
Most scholars regard it as being entirely fictional, its unspecified geography being perfect for chivalric romance writers.
Nevertheless, arguments about the location of the "real Camelot" have occurred since the 15th century and continue to rage today in popular works and for tourism purposes.
The name's derivation is uncertain.
It has numerous different spellings in medieval French Arthurian romances, including Camaalot, Camalot, Chamalot, Camehelot （sometimes read as Camchilot）,
Camaaloth, Caamalot, Camahaloth, Camaelot, Kamaalot, Kamaaloth, Kaamalot, Kamahaloth, Kameloth, Kamaelot, Kamelot, Kaamelot, Cameloth, and Gamalaot.
Arthurian scholar Ernst Brugger suggested that it was a corruption of the site of Arthur's final battle, the Battle of Camlann, in Welsh tradition.
Roger Sherman Loomis believed it was derived from Cavalon, a place name that he suggested was a corruption of Avalon （under the influence of the Breton place name Cavallon）.
He further suggested that Cavalon became Arthur's capital due to confusion with Arthur's other traditional court at Caerleon （Caer Lleon in Welsh）.
Others have suggested a derivation from the British Iron Age and Romano-British place name Camulodunum, one of the first cap...