Camelot

=CAMELOT = Camelot, envisioned in the tale of King Arthur, creates an image of tall towers and a beautiful castle. In addition, you can picture the town within the castle walls to be vibrant and full of life. Arthur, considered a mighty king, reigned over Camelot peacefully and justly. However, where is Camelot today? (Britannia.com) (Britannia.com)
 * **Possible Identifications:** || [|**Cadbury Castle**] ||
 * [|**Caerleon**] || [|**Caerwent**] || [|**Camelford**] || [|**Camelon**] ||
 * [|**Carlisle**] || [|**Castle Killibury**] || [|**Colchester**] || [|**Graig-Llwyn**] ||
 * [|**Llanmelin**] || [|**Slack**] || [|**Stirling**] || [|**Winchester**] ||

**The Camelot Song:** media type="youtube" key="lfGpVcdqeS0" height="344" width="425" The first known author to refer to Cadbury as Camelot is [|John Leland] in 1542. He says: "At the very south end of the church of South-Cadbyri standeth Camallate, sometime a famous town or castle . . . The people can tell nothing there but that they have heard Arthur much resorted to Camalat." Skeptics have argued that there was no real local tradition, or perhaps a vague tradition of Arthur only, and that the evocative name is a guess of Leland's prompted by the villages of Queen Camel and West Camel not far away. Yet he speaks of Camelot without any discussion as a recognized fact, and his spelling with an a instead of o in the last syllable may echo a local pronunciation. This can be heard today; the a is sounded as in "father". It may have some bearing on the case that the first printed edition of a work by the classical geographer Ptolemy, which Leland could have read, notes a place called "Camuludanum" in this part of Britain. (historymedren.com)

"Camelot was never meant to be as a Constellation in the sky. A Constellation is permanent. Camelot was never meant to be permanent. It was instead meant to be as a Shooting Star. It was meant to flash briefly across the sky. Camelot was meant, in its brief sojourn on earth, to give us a glimpse of what mankind could aspire to. It set an example for us, just as the Shooting Star shows us for a brief instance the beauty and glory of its existence. But just as we remember the beauty and magnificence of the shooting star long after it has vanished, the concepts and ideals established by King Arthur's Round Table were remembered in the hearts of men long after Camelot was no more." Quote from Sir Galahad (lib.rochester.edu) media type="youtube" key="dfjW8Lz1_g8" height="344" width="425"

The name Camelot was invented by a French poet many years after the time of King Arthur. The original name of Camelot had been forgotten by the time and Chretien de Troyes named it Camelot Many believe that the original name of Camelot was Viroconium, an old Roman stronghold. Over the last 35 years many archaeological excavations have taken place at Viroconium to reveal that, unlike most other Roman towns that had been abandoned for more easily defended hilltop fortifications, the city was still a thriving, walled town (grahamphillips.com) 

The last excavation at Viroconium was in the 1990s this excavation showed that the city had been rebuilt in 500Ad. The capital building of the new city was a big building that appears to be the castle of a rich warlord. This reconstruction seems to have coincided with the defeating of the Anglo-saxons. This may have been the capital of the new United Britons. In other words the historical Camelot. Another rthing is that a man who ruled the kingdom of Powys from the city of Viroconium at this exact time was a warlord. His name was Owain Ddantgwyn and he was given the title The Bear, and in the British language the word for bear was Arth- Arthur meant the bear. (grahamphillips.com) and

Camelot and the Kennedy Presidency can be related because they are both considered to have a time of "idyllic happiness." "[Kennedy's wife] described the years of her husband's presidency (1960–63) as an American Camelot, a period of hope and optimism in U. S. history." (For more information, see endnotes.com) []

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