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Even the fact that Somerset has many apple orchards has been drawn in to support the connection. Arthurian literature also continues to use Glastonbury as an important location as in The Mists of Avalon, A Glastonbury Romance, and The Bones of Avalon. In more recent times, writers such as Dion Fortune, John Michell, Nicholas Mann and Geoffrey Ashe have formed theories based on perceived connections between Glastonbury and Celtic legends of the Otherworld in attempts to link the location firmly with Avalon, drawing on the various legends based on Glastonbury Tor as well as drawing on ideas like Earth mysteries, Ley lines and even the myth of Atlantis. Such stories take place centuries after the times of King Arthur. In the chanson de geste La Bataille Loquifer, Morgan and her sister Marsion (Marrion) bring the hero Renoart to Avalon, where Arthur now prepares his return alongside Morgan, Gawain, Ywain, Percival and Guinevere.

In his La Faula, Guillem de Torroella claims to have visited the Enchanted Island ( Illa Encantada) and met Arthur who has been brought back to life by Morgan and they both of them are now forever young, sustained by the Grail. Morgan also features as an immortal ruler of a fantastic Avalon, sometimes alongside the still alive Arthur, in some subsequent and otherwise non-Arthurian chivalric romances such as Tirant lo Blanch, as well as the tales of Huon of Bordeaux, where Oberon is a son of either Morgan by name or 'the Lady of the Secret Isle', and the legend of Ogier the Dane, where Avalon can be described as a castle. Conversely, Stephen of Rouen's chronicle Draco Normannicus contains a fictional letter from King Arthur to Henry II of England, in which Arthur claims that he has been healed of his wounds and made immortal by his 'deathless/eternal nymph' sister Morgan on Avalon, using the island's restorative herbs. Legend Geoffrey of Monmouth Īrthur's fate is often left untold in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur, the Archbishop of Canterbury later receives Arthur's dead body and buries it at Glastonbury. Writing in early 12th century, William of Malmesbury claimed the name of Avalon came from a man called Avalloc, who once lived on this island with his daughters. All are etymologically related to the Gaulish root * aballo 'fruit tree'-(as found in the place name Aballo/Aballone) and are derived from a Common Celtic * abal- 'apple', which is related at the Proto-Indo-European level to English apple, Russian яблоко ( jabloko), Latvian ābele, et al.

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It is also possible that the tradition of an 'apple' island among the British was related to Irish legends concerning the otherworld island home of Manannán mac Lir and Lugh, Emain Ablach (also the Old Irish poetic name for the Isle of Man), where Ablach means 'Having Apple Trees' -derived from Old Irish aball ('apple')-and is similar to the Middle Welsh name Afallach, which was used to replace the name Avalon in medieval Welsh translations of French and Latin Arthurian tales. afal in Modern Welsh, derived from Common Celtic * abalnā, literally 'fruit-bearing (thing)'). The name is generally considered to be of Welsh origin (though an Old Cornish or Old Breton origin is also possible), derived from Old Welsh, Old Cornish, or Old Breton aball or avallen(n), 'apple tree, fruit tree' (cf. 1150) he called it Insula Pomorum the 'isle of fruit trees' (from Latin pōmus 'fruit tree'). Geoffrey of Monmouth referred to it in Latin as Insula Avallonis in Historia Regum Britanniae (c.

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