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[dhampyresa]

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).

Comments

[monksandbones]

That's interesting! In my case, the answer is no, because the only food I'd associate with the name is milk (there's an Avalon Dairy that used to supply milk to one of the grocery stores in my hometown in British Columbia).

On the other hand, I do kind of associate Avalon with the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland (I'm sure Arthurian lore played a role in it being named that, since it's the easternmost part of Newfoundland).

spork of delicious apples

[yhlee]

No, but then I don't know any Breton and my early exposure to Arthuriana was mostly American-inflected (think Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Avalon and Sidney Lanier's The Boy's King Arthur...hmm, I think Parke Godwin, who wrote Firelord, was British, but that was the exception for me).

[sineala]

Yes; I have the vague idea that its name means Isle of Apples? I must have heard that somewhere.

(For another data point, I asked my wife and she said "Yes, obviously, it's the Isle of Apples, what kind of question is that?" so I guess... we're both Arthurian nerds?)

[merit]

Nope! My exposure has been limited and mostly to what is in popular media and the idle short story.