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dhampyresa ([personal profile] dhampyresa) wrote2018-02-18 09:13 pm
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Do you associate Avalon (the isle from Arthurian lore) with apples? Any reason why (not)?

For my part the answer is 'yes', because the Breton word for "apple" is 'aval' (pl avaloù).

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[personal profile] melannen 2018-02-18 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Same here! At some point some version of the story or other called it the Isle of Apples. I think that's also part of its connection to Glastonbury somehow?

(Cheated and googled: ah, right, Giraldus Cambrensis explains that its name comes from the Welsh Ynys Afallach, which means Isle of Apples and is an old name for Glastonbury Tor, in the story about the grave that was dug up there.)

...same here on the Arthurian nerd part too I guess.
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[personal profile] melannen 2018-02-26 12:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, Giraldus was a Welsh nationalist and a bloody liar, so it very well could have been originally Breton, but he got it into the literature first