Arthurian island

Usage examples of avalon.

It seemed to him that this child was destined to walk a road unlike that which had been trodden by any priestess of Avalon before.

He knew that none of the women of Avalon were currently feeding a child.

Unprotected, the south-eastern coasts were vulnerable to raiders, and Prince Coelius had thought it best to send his little daughter to the safety of Avalon while he and his sons prepared to defend Camulodunum.

I was eager to get to Avalon, but now that our journey was over, I was painfully aware that I would not see Corinthius again, and only now did I realize how fond of the old man I really was.

It is forbidden for an outlander to look on Avalon except when the gods call.

Where the huts had stood, on the other isle on Avalon there were edifices of stone.

But it is in Avalon that the old ways are practised and the truth remembered.

Tor, but except that the weather is sometimes a little different, Avalon is not so unlike the outside world.

The folk of Avalon, both priestesses and priests, did not spend all their time in ritual.

The imperium Galliarum established by Postumus in the year I had come to Avalon now included Hispania as well as Gallia and Britannia, and there did not seem to be much that the Emperor Gallienus, plagued by a series of pretenders in the other sectors of his empire, could do to reassert his authority.

True, I still shared some work and classes with the younger girls and the maidens who had been sent to Avalon to learn something of the old ways before going home to be married.

But a stern order sent me back up the hill to finish trimming the hedge, and it was not until the still hour just after dusk had fallen, when the folk of Avalon gathered for their evening meal, that I was able to open the door to the storage shed unobserved.

But though the sky above the Tor was clear, beyond it mist lay heavy on land and water alike, so that Avalon seemed to rise from a sea of cloud.

Gazing up at its mighty branches, I knew that I had passed beyond the borders of Avalon, or any land inhabited by men, for surely the Druids would have made an enclosure around such a tree as this and hung offerings upon its branches.

Now that sense was intensified a hundredfold, and I understood that as the moon was to the sun, so was the magic of Avalon to this realm which was its source and its original.