Editing Avalon (section)

===Sicily and other locations===
{{See also|Locations associated with Arthurian legend}}
[[File:Etna acima das nuvens (2327861081).jpg|thumb|[[Mount Etna|Etna]] peak above clouds in 2008]]

Medieval settings for the location of Avalon ranged far beyond Glastonbury. Besides the mentioned examples of Gwynedd and Brasil, they included [[Paradise|paradisal]] [[underworld]] realms equated with the other side of the Earth at the [[antipodes]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0o1NX1VoO4cC&pg=PA86 | title=Arthurian Narrative in the Latin Tradition | isbn=978-0-521-62126-7 | last1=Echard | first1=Siân | date=10 September 1998 | publisher=Cambridge University Press }}</ref> Italian romances and folklore explicitly link Morgan's and sometimes Arthur's eternal domain with [[Mount Etna]] (Mongibel) in Sicily,<ref>Loomis, Roger Sherman ''Wales and the Arthurian Legend'', pub. University of Wales Press, Cardiff 1956 and reprinted by Folcroft Press 1973, Chapter 5 ''King Arthur and the Antipodes'', pp. 70–71.</ref> and the [[Strait of Messina]], located to the north of Etna and associated with the optical mirage phenomenon of [[Fata Morgana (mirage)|Fata Morgana]] ("Morgan the Fairy").<ref name="Lacy">Avalon in Norris J. Lacy, Editor, ''The Arthurian Encyclopedia'' (1986 Peter Bedrick Books, New York).</ref> [[Pomponius Mela]]'s ancient Roman description of the island of [[Île de Sein]], off the coast of Brittany, was also notably one of Geoffrey of Monmouth's original inspirations for his Avalon.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E0bdCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT189|title=King Arthur's Battle for Britain|last=Walmsley|first=Eric|date=2013|publisher=Troubador Publishing Ltd|isbn=9781780887173|language=en}}</ref>

[[File:Bardsey from Braich y Pwll - geograph.org.uk - 1103080.jpg|thumb|left|[[Bardsey Island]] (Ynys Enlli) seen from [[Aberdaron]] (Braich y Pwll) in 2009]]

In modern times, similar to the search for Arthur's mythical capital Camelot, a variety of sites across Britain, France and elsewhere have been put forward as being the "real Avalon". Such proposed locations include [[Greenland]] or other places in or across the Atlantic,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/galeencyclopedia0000stei|url-access=registration|title=The Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained|last1=Steiger|first1=Brad|last2=Steiger|first2=Sherry Hansen|date=2003|publisher=Thomson/Gale|isbn=9780787653842|language=en}}</ref> the former Roman fort of [[Aballava]] (known as Avalana by the sixth century) in Cumbria,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RjTemgeEUs0C&pg=PA33|title=A Companion to Marie de France|last=Whalen|first=Logan|date=2011|publisher=Brill|isbn=9789004202177|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nBWeBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT108|title=A Brief History of King Arthur|first=Mike|last=Ashley|date=7 February 2013|publisher=Little, Brown Book Group|isbn=9781472107657 |via=Google Books}}</ref> [[Bardsey Island]] off the coast of Gwynedd,<ref name=":1" /> the isle of [[Île Aval]] on the coast of Brittany,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.faena.com/aleph/articles/avalon-a-place-between-mythology-and-the-utopia-of-a-lost-kingdom/|title=Avalon, a place between mythology and the utopia of a lost kingdom|website=Aleph|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-11}}</ref> and [[Lady's Island Lake|Lady's Island]] in Ireland's Leinster.<ref name="auto1"/> In the works of [[William Fairfield Warren|William F. Warren]], Avalon was compared to [[Hyperborea]] along with the [[Garden of Eden]] and theorized to be located in the Arctic.<ref>{{cite book|first=William|last=Warren|title=Paradise Found: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole, a Study of the Prehistoric World|year=1885|chapter=VI, part 5}}</ref> Geoffrey Ashe championed an association of Avalon with the town of [[Avallon]] in Burgundy, as part of a theory connecting King Arthur to the [[Romano-British]] leader [[Riothamus]] who was last seen in that area.{{#tag:ref|According to Ashe, "In Welsh it is ''Ynys Avallach''. Geoffrey's Latin equivalent is ''Insula Avallonis''. It has been influenced by the spelling of a real place called Avallon. Avallon is a Gaulish name with the same meaning, and the real Avalon is in Burgundy—where Arthur's Gallic career ends. Again, we glimpse an earlier and different passing of Arthur, on the Continent and not in Britain. Riothamus too led an army of Britons into Gaul, and was the only British King who did. He too advanced to the neighbourhood of Burgundy. He too was betrayed by a deputy ruler who treated with barbarian enemies. He, too, is last located in Gaul among the pro-Roman Burgundians. He, too, disappears after a fatal battle, without any recorded death. The line of his retreat, prolonged on a map, shows that he was going in the direction of the real Avalon."<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Discovery of King Arthur|author=Geoffrey Ashe|pages=95–96|publisher=Guild Publishing|location=London|year=1985}}</ref>|group="note"}} [[Robert Graves]] identified Avalon with the Spanish island of Majorca ([[Mallorca]]),<ref name=":0" /> while [[Laurence Gardner]] suggested the [[Isle of Arran]] off the coast of Scotland.<ref name=":1" /> [[Graham Phillips (writer)|Graham Phillips]] claimed to have located the grave of the "historical Arthur" ([[Owain Ddantgwyn]]) in the "true site of Avalon" on a former island at [[Baschurch]] in Shropshire.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.grahamphillips.net/arthur_tomb/arthur_tomb6.html | title=The Lost Tomb of King Arthur 6 }}</ref> {{clear}}