Editing Brittany (section)

===Legends and literature===
[[File:Botrel.jpg|thumb|upright|The singer-songwriter [[Théodore Botrel]] dressed in traditional Breton clothing]]
Brittany is closely associated with the [[Matter of Britain]] and [[King Arthur]]. According to [[Wace]], [[Brocéliande]] is located in Brittany and it is nowadays considered to be [[Paimpont forest]]. There, ruins of a castle surrounded by a lake are associated with the [[Lady of the Lake]], a [[dolmen]] is said to be [[Tombeau de Merlin|Merlin's tomb]] and a path is presented as [[Morgan le Fay]]'s [[Val sans Retour]]. [[Tristan and Iseult]] are also said to have lived in Brittany. Another major Breton legend is the story about [[Ys]], a city swallowed by the ocean.

Breton literature before the 19th century was mostly oral.  The oral tradition entertained by medieval poets died out during the 15th century and books in [[Breton language|Breton]] were very rare before 1850. At that time, local writers started to collect and publish local tales and legends and wrote original works.  Published between 1925 and the [[Second World War]], the literary journal [[Gwalarn]] favoured a modern Breton literature and helped translating widely known novels into Breton.  After the war, the journal ''Al Liamm'' pursued that mission. Among the authors writing in Breton are [[Auguste Brizeux]], a Romantic poet, the [[neo-Druid]]ic bard [[Erwan Berthou]], [[Théodore Hersart de La Villemarqué]], who collected the local legends about [[King Arthur]], [[Roparz Hemon]], founder of [[Gwalarn]], [[Pêr-Jakez Helias]], [[Glenmor]], [[Pêr Denez]] and [[Meavenn]].

Breton literature includes 19th-century historical novels by [[Émile Souvestre]], travel journals by [[Anatole Le Braz]], poems and novels by [[Charles Le Goffic]], the works of the singer-songwriter [[Théodore Botrel]] and of the maritime writer [[Henri Queffélec]]. Brittany is also the birthplace of many writers like [[François-René de Chateaubriand]], [[Jules Verne]], [[Ernest Renan]], [[Félicité Robert de Lamennais]] and [[Pierre Abélard]] [[Max Jacob]], [[Alfred Jarry]], [[Victor Segalen]], [[Xavier Grall]], [[Jean Rouaud]], [[Irène Frain]], [[Herve Jaouen]],<ref>Hervé_Jaouen</ref> [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]], [[Pierre-Jakez Hélias]], [[Tristan Corbière]], [[Paul Féval]], [[Jean Guéhenno]], [[Arthur Bernède]], [[André Breton]], [[Patrick Poivre d'Arvor]].

The ''[[Asterix]]'' comics, set during the time of [[Julius Caesar]] and written in the second half of the twentieth century, are set in Armorica, now Brittany.