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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Avalon
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The island to which King *Arthur's body is carried after his death in battle and where his wounds are magically healed by Morgan le Fay. Geoffrey of Monmouth, who first mentions it, says that it means 'island of apples' (afal is the Welsh for an apple). It was a few decades after Geoffrey's book that *Glastonbury became linked with Avalon, to its considerable profit, when the monks identified some bones found there as Arthur's.
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