Camelot
Overview
 
Camelot is a castle
Castle
A castle is a type of fortified structure built in Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars debate the scope of the word castle, but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble...

 and court associated with the legendary King Arthur
King Arthur
King Arthur is a legendary British leader of the late 5th and early 6th centuries, who, according to Medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the early 6th century. The details of Arthur's story are mainly composed of folklore and literary invention, and...

. Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 romances and eventually came to be described as the fantastic capital of Arthur's realm and a symbol of the Arthurian world. The stories locate it somewhere in Britain
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

 and sometimes associate it with real cities, though more usually its precise location is not revealed.
Quotations

Merlyn, why have you never taught me love and marriage?

Proposition: It's far better to be alive than to be dead.

[singing] And -what of teaching me by turning me to animal and bird,From beaver to the smallest bobolink!I should have had a -whirlAt changing to a girl,To learn the way the creatures think!

Merlyn told me once: Never be too disturbed if you don't understand what a woman is thinking. They don't do it often.

I dreamed ... I dreamed.

All we've been through, for nothing but an idea! Something that you cannot taste, smell, or feel; without substance, life, reality, memory.

The adage, "Blood is thicker than water," was invented by undeserving relatives.

Merlyn! Merlyn, make me a hawk. Let me fly away from here!

[singing] Ask ev'ry person if he's heard the story;And tell it strong and clear if he has not:That once there was a fleeting wisp of gloryCalled Camelot.Camelot! Camelot!

 
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