Talk:Avalon

message: The island of Sicily has always been identified with Avalon. 
According to the sources, and especially the history of Europe, Sicily is Avalon. 
All this by the Normans and also in subsequent periods throughout Europe. 
On Glastonbury there is nothing of all this, but only an imaginary urban legend based on a false history of the Middle Ages for economic purposes.--151.46.138.40 (talk) 13:37, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Hold on, since "Avalon" is a legend to begin with, we're never going to pinpoint a real location for it. All we can say is "people have identified it with this place" and "people have identified it with that place". The proponents of Sicily need to assemble their sources and then expand the "Connection to Sicily" section, to sit alongside the "Connection to Glastonbury" section, which should certainly remain even if edited down somewhat for the sake of balance with the rest of the article: Noyster  (talk),  14:25, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  OK, Avalon is a legend but in the Middle Ages Sicily has historically identified with Avalon from all over Europe. The "Connection to Glastonbury" section is misleading..the tradition of Glastonbury, the Holy Grail and its strange connections are out of place here ... maybe it would be better to insert them into the city page "Glastonbury", so encyclopedic and non-touristy. On this page you can make a mention of this tradition, but without a section with the name "Connection to Glastonbury" ... no connection with Glastonbury.--151.19.235.41 (talk) 15:42, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  You write "...in the Middle Ages Sicily has historically identified with Avalon from all over Europe." Care to provide a source for that? Just because a Sicilian Fata Morgana (mirage) was popularly associated with Morgan le Fay by the (Arthurian-lit-loving) Normans who conquered Sicily doesn't mean that Avalon was identified with Sicily "all over Europe". The man who gave us Avalon, Geoffrey of Monmouth, tacitly identified it with the Canary Islands.Cagwinn (talk) 16:16, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: We may have the beginning of something constructive here, so the above entry should not simply be deleted. We can proceed if the above poster or others can (a) state in what publications these works are available, (b) summarise what they say that is relevant to the identification of Avalon with Sicily: Noyster  (talk),  19:59, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not constructive at all - it's merely a list of authors and Arthurian tales that this person has clearly not read, since they don't support the claim that "in the Middle Ages Sicily has historically (been) identified with Avalon from all over Europe".Cagwinn (talk) 20:47, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  Comments from block-evading User:Sweet Xeper removed, talk page semi-protected. 21:29, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Connection to Sicily" or "Connection to Glastonbury" ? 

message: This section of lists of tangential topics is pretty much the definition of what both MOS:TRIVIA and WP:WWIN#INDISCRIMINATE advise us to avoid.  Some of these details involving derived modern works, thematically linked topics and perhaps even the toponyms are worth saving, and for the most part worked into prose, but much of it is just not of significant encyclopedic value to the understanding of this topic.  For this kind of cross-categorization, I recommend the project TV Tropes (though be warned that you may get entranced by its siren song and never wish to return to our already undermanned project), but I just don't think the understanding of Avalon as a topic of general encyclopedic interest is served by mentioning that Magneto named an asteroid base after it.  And I know that it might seem like I'm picking a rather easy target there, but the truth is most entries in this section share nothing more than some nomenclature with the general topic of this article.  Snow talk 12:35, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposing some significant pruning to the "Avalon in culture" section

message: (As an ex police detective) Taking contemporary witnesses, state of mind, chronological logistics, associations, medieval reasoning, book and document study of the time and 20 years of research I can say without a shadow of a doubt in my mind that Ynys Enlli (Bardsey) is the location of the  mystical and legendary  island of AVALON. (Known the world over) It is a medieval mind jigsaw which can be constructed by using  Geoffrey of Monmouth, St Dyfrig, 200000 Saints, Afal (Welsh - apple) Mabinogion, Pilgrimage, Bishop Urban, Llandaff, Welsh/British language and many more evidential enquiry lines.  Let me add it is a myth, it was made up, medieval propaganda and for medieval minds, Bardsey could be the only island the Welsh originator of the legend in the 12th century had in mind when he introduced it into the Arthurian stories.(And placed it 500 years earlier)  His ingratiation into the 12th century church was complete when his books (highly fabricated) spread the Arthurian legends like wildfire across Europe.     Today is the day the bones of the man who crowned Arthur at Caerleon were brought back to Llandaff. 1120AD.   (Allegedly)  Glastonbury and it's alleged link to Avalon came much later after the original story was constructed.
:Wikipedia is not your personal blog - please take your OR musings elsewhere. Cagwinn (talk) 23:30, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  AVALON is Ynys Enlli (Bardsey Island)   The island is a myth but Geoffrey based his story on this island for the reasoning below.  

message: The Italian edit warrior with ever changing IP address is back at it again, vandalizing this article. We have to get either permanent protection on the article or find a way to ban this editor (will be difficult due to him using different IP addresses all the time). Cagwinn (talk) 22:44, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: FYI  the granting of permanent protection is rare. Asking for a longer period of protection - it was two weeks last time so four is within reason - is probably best. You are right that getting blocks or bans will be difficult since they rotate IPs. They haven't edited since I reverted this morning (my time) so I was going to wait to see if they return. Feel free to file an WP:RFPP at anytime. In your report you can make the admins aware of this thread though you don't have to. I have the page on my watchlist now so I will help when I can. Thanks for your vigilance in protecting this article. MarnetteD|Talk 22:54, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Protected three months. --NeilN talk to me 14:50, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  this is the POV   ,location of Avalon no Glastonbury guide. The content of the page "Avalon" are on other pages "Glastonbury abbey"., "glastenbury festival" not appropriate, and original research and vandalism. everything is there for all to see.--82.61.41.4 (talk) 15:36, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The article's chronic vandal and edit warrior is back 

message: Substituted at 08:41, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: ===Avalon in culture===
Avalon is referenced or serves as setting for many modern works of fiction or fantasy, including non-Arthurian French literature, folklore, and epic poems as well as in later works without other connections to King Arthur. Several examples are listed below.
====Avalon in non-Arthurian French literature, folklore, and epic poems====
Examples include:
* Li coronemenz Looïs (an anonymous twelfth-century Old French chanson de geste, in which appears the phrase por tot l'or d'Avalon "for all the gold of Avalon")Chambers, Edmund Kerchever. Arthur of Britain, Speculum Historiale, 1964, p. 219. 
* The legends of Holger Danske, who was taken there by the sorceress Morgan le Fay of Arthurian legend
* The legends of Melusine. It also recurs in a number of later works without other connections to King Arthur
====Avalon in modern fiction====
Avalon is a major setting for many modern works of fiction or fantasy. Several examples are listed below.
=====In comics=====
* Marvel Comics has two different Avalons.
** In the X-Men comic-book franchise, the supervillain Magneto creates a floating asteroid named Avalon to be a sanctuary for mutants.
** Avalon is also a location that is based on the Arthurian Avalon and is part of the Otherworld.
* Avalon also appears in the The New 52 DC Comics book series, Demon Knights.
=====In literature=====
* Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon, 
* The Chronicles of Amber (1970-1991) by Roger Zelazny is a fantasy book series that references Avalon as shadow-kingdom formerly ruled by Corwin, the protagonist of the first five novels.
* In Chapter 19 of James Rollins' sixth Sigma Force novel, The Doomsday Key (2009), Father Rye and historian Wallace Boyd tell the group seeking the Doomsday Key that Bardsey Island was home to Fomorian royalty and that Merlin was a famous Druid priest, buried on sacred Bardsey Island with other prominent Druids. In the book's "Fact or Fiction" epilogue, Rollins writes: "Bardsey Island truly is Avalon. All the stories and mythologies of the island are accurate, including Merlin's tomb, Lord Newborough's Crypt, and the twenty thousand buried saints. Also, the Bardsey apple continues to grow, and cuttings can be purchased of this ancient tree. As to those nasty currents around the island, those are also real."
* In Poul Anderson's Technic History, Avalon is the name of a planet with a colony composed jointly of Humans and the eagle-like Ythrian aliens.
* In J. R. R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion and Sauron Defeated, Avallon is identified with Tol Eressëa, the enchanted island nearest to the Blessed Land of Aman, inhabited by Elves. Avallónë is also the main elven city on Eressëa. When Númenor (Atlantis) sank into the ocean, the flat Middle-earth became spherical and Eressëa and Aman were removed into the world of the "Unseen", to prevent mortals from reaching them. Elves and specially blessed mortals can still sail there.
=====In television=====
* Avalon has been referenced in the science-fiction television series Stargate SG-1 (see Avalon (Stargate SG-1)).
* Avalon and many other Arthurian legends are referenced in the visual novel/anime "Fate/stay Night"
* Avalon and many other Arthurian legends are referenced in Game Soul Sacrifice  and Soul Sacrifice Delta 
* Avalon is the setting of the mid-1990s animated series Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders.
* Avalon is also visited by the protagonists during the Disney/Buena Vista animated series Gargoyles, and is both the starting point and the core location of the nineteen-episode "Avalon World Tour" story arc of the series. It's inhabited by The Third Race and a clan of Gargoyles.
* Avalon (Avila) is the city in Spain that Cary Grant (British Officer), Frank Sinatra (Spaniard Revolutionary), and Sophia Loren (Love Interest and Revolutionary); must move a gigantic canon to fight the French.
* Avalon is featured in Once Upon a Time. Guinevere once received special sand from Rumplestiltskin that came from Avalon as part of a deal to complete Excalibur.
* Avalon is the home dimension of fairies in Supernatural.
=====In video games=====
* In the online game Wizard101, there is a playable world called Avalon.
* In the game Tomb Raider: Legend, Amelia goes through the ring to Avalon.
* In the game Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War, Avalon is the name of a hydroelectric dam and missile silo. 
* In the game Tomb Raider: Underworld.
====In music====
Led Zeppelin sings "I'm waiting for the angels of Avalon, waiting for the eastern glow." in the song "The Battle of Evermore", along with references to the Latin meaning of Avalon (apple): "The apples of the valley hold the seeds of happiness".
"Avalon" is a song from the album "Avalon", the eighth and final studio album released in May 1982, by Roxy Music.
"Isle of Avalon" is a song from the 2010 album "The Final Frontier" by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden.
The line "Sweet Avalon, the heat is on" is found in the track "A Call to Arms" from Mike & The Mechanics' first album.
Avalon Sunset is the nineteenth studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1989. Morrison also wrote the song "Avalon of the Heart", which was included on his next album Enlightenment in 1990.
"Avalon" is a song from the album Fables & Dreams by Swiss symphonic metal band Lunatica.
"Avalon" is a song on acoustic oriented band Fiction Family's 2013 album Fiction Family Reunion.
"Back to Avalon" is a song on the album Desire Walks On by rock group Heart (band).
"Avalon" is the title of a song on the album Axis Mundi (2015) by Brown Bird.
"Avalon"  is mentioned in the song "Southern Cross" by Crosby, Stills, and Nash.
"Avalon" is a song on the album Empire of the Undead by power metal group Gamma Ray.
"Avalon" is a song on the soundtrack for the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure 2012 anime.
"Sail Away to Avalon" is a song on the first Ayreon album, The Final Experiment.
"Avalon" is the title of an album released in 2014 by Japanese rock band Matenrou Opera.  
Rivers of Avalon is a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, released as a b-side to The Zephyr Song
The Avalon Guitar Company crafts stringed instruments in Ireland.
Flogging Molly sings "Up to heaven and past Avalon" in 'Devil's Dance Floor' off of their album "Swagger"
Avalon is a song on the 1999 album Ágætis byrjun by Sigur Rós.
=== Avalon (disambiguation) ===
for convenience I'm copying this here temporarily - some of the material above is already on the dab page
== Books[edit]
Avalon (novel), a 1965 novel by Anya Seton
Avalon Series, a series of novels by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Avalon: Web of Magic, a series of children's fantasy novels by the American author Rachel Roberts
Films[edit]
Avalon (1990 film), directed by Barry Levinson
Avalon (2001 film), a Japanese/Polish film directed by Mamoru Oshii
Comics[edit]
Avalon (webcomic), written by Josh Phillips
Avalon (DC Comics), a fictional planet
Avalon (Marvel Comics), a fictional island
Games[edit]
Avalon The 3D Adventure Movie, a 1984 computer game released on the ZX Spectrum by Hewson in the 1980s
Avalon (MUD), a text-based online game series
Avalon, a King Arthur-themed variant to the game The Resistance
Avalon, the first stage in Gaiapolis
Avalon Centrifuge, a character in the video game LittleBigPlanet 2
Avalon, a world in the online game of Wizard101
Music[edit]Bands and performers[edit]
Avalon (Finnish band), a Finnish metal opera project
Avalon (American group), a contemporary Christian music group
Avalon (Scottish band), a Celtic-rock group formerly known as The Medium Wave Band
Avalon (Swedish group), a musical duo made up of the Swedish-Congolese brothers Djo and Mohombi Moupondo
Frankie Avalon (born 1940), American actor, singer, and former teen idol
Mickey Avalon (born 1975), rapper
Albums[edit]
Avalon (Roxy Music album), a 1982 album by British group Roxy Music
Avalon (Avalon album), a 1996 self-titled album by Avalon
Avalon (Anthony Green album), Anthony Green's 2008 solo debut album
Avalon (Sully Erna album), a 2010 album by Godsmack singer Sully Erna
Avalon (soundtrack), the original soundtrack of the 1990 film Avalon
Avalon Los Angeles CA 24/06/06, a 2006 live 2-disc recording by Sasha (DJ)
Songs[edit]
"Avalon" (Al Jolson song), 1920
"Avalon" (Roxy Music song), 1982
"Avalon", a 1999 song by Sigur Rós from the album Ágætis byrjun
"Avalon", a 1999 song by Blackmore's Night from the album Under a Violet Moon
"Avalon" a 2005 song by Juliet Richardson
"Avalon" (Lovebugs song), 2006
"Avalon", a 2010 song by Bad Religion from the album "The Dissent of Man"
"Avalon" (Professor Green song), 2011
"Isle of Avalon", a 2010 song from Iron Maiden's album The Final Frontier
"Avalon", a 2014 song from Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators' album World on Fire
Businesses[edit]
Avalon Books, a New York-based book publishing imprint (1950-2012), purchased by Amazon.com
Avalon Publishing Group (1994–2007), a New York publisher, absorbed by Perseus Books Group
Avalon Guitars, a Northern Ireland guitar manufacturer
Avalon hotel (Gothenburg), Sweden
Avalon Hotel (Rochester, Minnesota), USA
Chateau Avalon, Kansas City, Kansas, USA, a luxury hotel and bed & breakfast
Avalon Interactive, a now-defunct video game distribution company
Avalon Mall, St. Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Avalon Rare Metals, a mineral development company focused on rare metal deposits in Canada
Avalon Studios, a film and television studio, located in Avalon, New Zealand
Avalon Waterways, an American ship and river cruise line owned by Globus
Radio Avalon, originally a pirate radio station near Glastonbury, England in 1983, later a legally recognised station
Organizations[edit]
The Avalon Foundation, founded by Ailsa Mellon-Bruce in 1940 and later merged into the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Avalon Historico-Geographical Society, based in Karaganda, Kazakhstan
Places[edit]Australia[edit]
Avalon, New South Wales
Avalon, Victoria
Avalon Airport, Victoria
Canada[edit]
Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland
Avalon (electoral district), Newfoundland
Province of Avalon, Newfoundland
Avalon, Ottawa, a neighborhood in a suburb of the city of Ottawa, Ontario
Avalon, Saskatoon, a neighbourhood in the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
United States[edit]
Avalon (Birmingham, Alabama), listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Avalon, California, the only city on Santa Catalina Island
Avalon, Georgia, a town
Avalon (Alpharetta, Georgia), a planned mixed-use development
Avalon (New Windsor, Maryland), a historic home listed on the NRHP
Avalon, Mississippi, an unincorporated community
Avalon, Missouri, an unincorporated community
Avalon, New Jersey, a barrier island resort community
Avalon, Pennsylvania, a borough
Avalon, Texas, an unincorporated community
Avalon, Virginia, an unincorporated community
Avalon, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
Avalon State Park, North Hutchinson Island, Florida
Mount Avalon, New Hampshire
Avalon Dam, on the Pecos River near Carlsbad, New Mexico
Elsewhere[edit]
Avalon, France, a village outside of Pontcharra, Isère
Avalon, New Zealand, a suburb of Lower Hutt
Avalon graveyard, in Soweto, South Africa
Schools[edit]
Avalon School (California)
Avalon School, in St. Paul, Minnesota
The Avalon School, a private school in Mongomery County, Maryland
Technology[edit]
Avalon Project, a digital library of documents held by the Yale Law School
Avalon, the codename for Windows Presentation Foundation, a user interface API designed by Microsoft
Apache Avalon, a computer software framework
Avalon switch fabric, the peripheral interface used in Altera's Nios II embedded processor
Television[edit]
"Avalon" (Stargate SG-1), the first two episodes of the ninth season of Stargate SG-1
Avalon, a character from the popular TV show Winx Club
Transportation[edit]
Avalon Boulevard, a north-south thoroughfare in Los Angeles County
Avalon (Los Angeles Metro station), on the Metro Green Line
Avalon (RTA Rapid Transit station), a station stop on the RTA Blue Line in Cleveland, Ohio
Toyota Avalon, a sedan car
USS Avalon, several US Navy ships
SS Avalon, several ships
Belle of Louisville, a steamboat formerly named Avalon
Avalon Airport in Victoria, Australia
Venues and movie theaters[edit]
The Avalon, San Francisco, California
Avalon Theater (disambiguation)
Other uses[edit]
Avalon Roberts (born 1945), Canadian psychiatrist and political activist
See also[edit]
Avalonia or Avalon terrane, an ancient microcontinent
Avallon, Burgundy, France, a commune 
:Doug Weller talk 14:36, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unorganised, unreferenced & badly written cultural references 

message: for convenience I'm copying this here temporarily - some of the material above is already on the dab page
== Books[edit]
Avalon (novel), a 1965 novel by Anya Seton
Avalon Series, a series of novels by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Avalon: Web of Magic, a series of children's fantasy novels by the American author Rachel Roberts
Films[edit]
Avalon (1990 film), directed by Barry Levinson
Avalon (2001 film), a Japanese/Polish film directed by Mamoru Oshii
Comics[edit]
Avalon (webcomic), written by Josh Phillips
Avalon (DC Comics), a fictional planet
Avalon (Marvel Comics), a fictional island
Games[edit]
Avalon The 3D Adventure Movie, a 1984 computer game released on the ZX Spectrum by Hewson in the 1980s
Avalon (MUD), a text-based online game series
Avalon, a King Arthur-themed variant to the game The Resistance
Avalon, the first stage in Gaiapolis
Avalon Centrifuge, a character in the video game LittleBigPlanet 2
Avalon, a world in the online game of Wizard101
Music[edit]Bands and performers[edit]
Avalon (Finnish band), a Finnish metal opera project
Avalon (American group), a contemporary Christian music group
Avalon (Scottish band), a Celtic-rock group formerly known as The Medium Wave Band
Avalon (Swedish group), a musical duo made up of the Swedish-Congolese brothers Djo and Mohombi Moupondo
Frankie Avalon (born 1940), American actor, singer, and former teen idol
Mickey Avalon (born 1975), rapper
Albums[edit]
Avalon (Roxy Music album), a 1982 album by British group Roxy Music
Avalon (Avalon album), a 1996 self-titled album by Avalon
Avalon (Anthony Green album), Anthony Green's 2008 solo debut album
Avalon (Sully Erna album), a 2010 album by Godsmack singer Sully Erna
Avalon (soundtrack), the original soundtrack of the 1990 film Avalon
Avalon Los Angeles CA 24/06/06, a 2006 live 2-disc recording by Sasha (DJ)
Songs[edit]
"Avalon" (Al Jolson song), 1920
"Avalon" (Roxy Music song), 1982
"Avalon", a 1999 song by Sigur Rós from the album Ágætis byrjun
"Avalon", a 1999 song by Blackmore's Night from the album Under a Violet Moon
"Avalon" a 2005 song by Juliet Richardson
"Avalon" (Lovebugs song), 2006
"Avalon", a 2010 song by Bad Religion from the album "The Dissent of Man"
"Avalon" (Professor Green song), 2011
"Isle of Avalon", a 2010 song from Iron Maiden's album The Final Frontier
"Avalon", a 2014 song from Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators' album World on Fire
Businesses[edit]
Avalon Books, a New York-based book publishing imprint (1950-2012), purchased by Amazon.com
Avalon Publishing Group (1994–2007), a New York publisher, absorbed by Perseus Books Group
Avalon Guitars, a Northern Ireland guitar manufacturer
Avalon hotel (Gothenburg), Sweden
Avalon Hotel (Rochester, Minnesota), USA
Chateau Avalon, Kansas City, Kansas, USA, a luxury hotel and bed & breakfast
Avalon Interactive, a now-defunct video game distribution company
Avalon Mall, St. Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Avalon Rare Metals, a mineral development company focused on rare metal deposits in Canada
Avalon Studios, a film and television studio, located in Avalon, New Zealand
Avalon Waterways, an American ship and river cruise line owned by Globus
Radio Avalon, originally a pirate radio station near Glastonbury, England in 1983, later a legally recognised station
Organizations[edit]
The Avalon Foundation, founded by Ailsa Mellon-Bruce in 1940 and later merged into the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Avalon Historico-Geographical Society, based in Karaganda, Kazakhstan
Places[edit]Australia[edit]
Avalon, New South Wales
Avalon, Victoria
Avalon Airport, Victoria
Canada[edit]
Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland
Avalon (electoral district), Newfoundland
Province of Avalon, Newfoundland
Avalon, Ottawa, a neighborhood in a suburb of the city of Ottawa, Ontario
Avalon, Saskatoon, a neighbourhood in the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
United States[edit]
Avalon (Birmingham, Alabama), listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Avalon, California, the only city on Santa Catalina Island
Avalon, Georgia, a town
Avalon (Alpharetta, Georgia), a planned mixed-use development
Avalon (New Windsor, Maryland), a historic home listed on the NRHP
Avalon, Mississippi, an unincorporated community
Avalon, Missouri, an unincorporated community
Avalon, New Jersey, a barrier island resort community
Avalon, Pennsylvania, a borough
Avalon, Texas, an unincorporated community
Avalon, Virginia, an unincorporated community
Avalon, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
Avalon State Park, North Hutchinson Island, Florida
Mount Avalon, New Hampshire
Avalon Dam, on the Pecos River near Carlsbad, New Mexico
Elsewhere[edit]
Avalon, France, a village outside of Pontcharra, Isère
Avalon, New Zealand, a suburb of Lower Hutt
Avalon graveyard, in Soweto, South Africa
Schools[edit]
Avalon School (California)
Avalon School, in St. Paul, Minnesota
The Avalon School, a private school in Mongomery County, Maryland
Technology[edit]
Avalon Project, a digital library of documents held by the Yale Law School
Avalon, the codename for Windows Presentation Foundation, a user interface API designed by Microsoft
Apache Avalon, a computer software framework
Avalon switch fabric, the peripheral interface used in Altera's Nios II embedded processor
Television[edit]
"Avalon" (Stargate SG-1), the first two episodes of the ninth season of Stargate SG-1
Avalon, a character from the popular TV show Winx Club
Transportation[edit]
Avalon Boulevard, a north-south thoroughfare in Los Angeles County
Avalon (Los Angeles Metro station), on the Metro Green Line
Avalon (RTA Rapid Transit station), a station stop on the RTA Blue Line in Cleveland, Ohio
Toyota Avalon, a sedan car
USS Avalon, several US Navy ships
SS Avalon, several ships
Belle of Louisville, a steamboat formerly named Avalon
Avalon Airport in Victoria, Australia
Venues and movie theaters[edit]
The Avalon, San Francisco, California
Avalon Theater (disambiguation)
Other uses[edit]
Avalon Roberts (born 1945), Canadian psychiatrist and political activist
See also[edit]
Avalonia or Avalon terrane, an ancient microcontinent
Avallon, Burgundy, France, a commune 
:Doug Weller talk 14:36, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Avalon (disambiguation) 

message: How exactly? And a lot of absolute crap "has been in the article for years". Look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Avalon&oldid=723542980 It was me who cleaned up this mess. Please revert yourself or provide the actual "commentaery by Arthurian scholars" about how Avalon might be the Canaries or whatever (I don't know). SNAAAAKE!! (talk) 20:21, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I am not reverting it; it has valid source citations and, as I mentioned, has been a part of the article for years now. It is important that it remains here, because nutjobs who want to make Avalon a town in Britain or France conveniently ignore the fact that Geoffrey clearly states Avalon is an island in the Western Ocean and that Geoffrey, for his description of the isle, simply re-phrased Isidore's entry on the Fortunate Isles  (which were commonly identified with the Canary Islands in antiquity, all the way through the middle ages - go ahead and check some medieval maps!). Geoffrey was not only influenced by Isidore, but also by medieval hagiography (for example, the Navigatio Sancti Brendani) in which the Fortunate Isle(s) (with varying names) frequently appear. Cagwinn (talk) 20:36, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

text: I have just now added numerous new sources to the paragraph. Cagwinn (talk) 21:11, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "It's directly related, has been commented on by many Arthurian scholars" 

message: Hello, I moved two sections from other pages to this Talk section because they describe modern media depictions of the Arthurian Avalon. I added them into the modern media section above. They are Avalon in Disney's Gargoyles (moved from the Avalon disambiguation page), and the mention of Tol Eressea by J.R.R. Tolkien, moved from the Fortunate Isles page since Tolkien didn't actually use the Fortunate Isles, he only used Avalon and Atlantis.
I do think the modern media section should be restored to the main page. I don't see why it was removed. Including a link to the page about the book, movie, or TV series in question seems like a legitimate reference to me. 2601:441:4480:53B0:649E:4D07:C305:5E01 (talk) 14:54, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two sections moved here from other pages 

message: First referred to as "Avallus" by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History (IV, 95) in the 1st century CE, it was described as a mysterious island where amber could be found. Later described by the poet Taliesin in the 6th century CE (some people associate Taliesin with the mythical bard Myrddin) as the “Island of Apples” where life is eternal and fruits are always ripe. 5.173.48.166 (talk) 11:58, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced lines from the lead