Avalon

Avalon, the earthly paradise of Celtic mythology, a 'green island' far to the westward where the sun-god seems to sink to his rest. Thither came heroes like the mighty Fioun and the great Arthur, and there they continued to live. Here were the mystic fountain, the apples (avlan) with their strange magical properties, and the mighty smith who forged 'Duré Entaille' for Arthur. The name was applied in the chivalrous poetry of the middle ages to the region where the fairy Morgana holds her court, and afterwards by rationalising historians to the Isle of Saints—an islet in the river Bret in Somersetshire—famous in romantic British history as an abode of Druids and the place to which Arthur was carried to get healed of his wounds.