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  Harris, Richard
Hemmings, David
  Loewe, Fritz
Newman, Alfred
  Redgrave, Vanessa


Camelot is the title of the stronghold of the legendary King Arthur, from which he fought numbers of of the battles that mass produced higher his life. Its specific location is presently unknown & can be the fictionalized Romano-British province of post-Roman Britain. A city is given name inside Chrétien de Troyes' poem Lancelot, where it doesn't seem when crucial when it would be inside Arthurian legend. Since a location of Camelot is however a mystery, the truth just about it—in case there exists 1—is however unknown.

Geographical references

Imaginable locations of Camelot include: Cadbury Castle Tintagel Castle Viroconium Caerleon-on-Usk, inside To the south Wales Dinerth Castle near the Flow of any stream Arth, West Wales

Though a title "Camelot" can be from either Camulodunum (modern Colchester), the fastness of the Catuvellauni kings, and late a provincial capital of Roman Britannia, its Essex location (inside East Anglia) wharehouses it in the wrongly Anglo-Saxon kingdom.

In popular culture
A sentence 'Camelot' is typically wont to refer to the time period within Usa history of 1960-1963. Extra specifically, it refers to the presidency of John F. Kennedy, as his term was said to have a lot of potential and promise for the future and the period was idyllic for many in the world, encouraged by Kennedy. A time period was ended by Kennedy's tragical assassination, which is typically in comparison a fall of King Arthur. A line "Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot" from either a musical 'Camelot', has been utilized within popular culture to refer to this time period.

A Camulod Chronicles by Jack Whyte is a historical fiction series based on Roman Britain & Medieval Britain wrapped about a Arthurian legends.

In the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Camelot is called the "silly place" by King Arthur, and the Knights of the Spherical Table decide does'nt to last there.

A musical Camelot, by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, is loosely based on a legend.

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