Martin Mere
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Lancelot's Beginning & Ending?
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106 Guenivere
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260 Lancelot
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472 Sand Castles
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464 Joyous Garde
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391 Vivienne
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The first legend states that Lancelot's mother came to Lancashire to
escape her enemies in France and, whilst attempting to save her husband's
life, left baby Lancelot by a now drained lake between Formby and Southport
then called 'Martin Mere'. Here the nymph Vivian adopted Lancelot and vanished
into the lake taking him with her. When he appears at Arthur's court aged
eighteen he is knighted 'Lancelot Of The Lake'. At some point following
this, Sir Lancelot makes his way to the ford in Medlock where he faces
Arthur's enemy Sir Tarquine, beating him and capturing his castle at Manchester
close by. - Current opinion also now places Arthur himself in North Wales
and, therefore, also bordering and in North Cheshire, which has been often
connected to Wales in Celtic times.
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