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Show Location of Camelot In the Arthurian legends Camelot was the city where King Arthur's palace with the Round Table was ! located. Tennyson, In "The Coming i of Arthur." describes tlie city and I mentions It in others of the "Idylls or the King" and In "The Lady of Slialott." It Is also referred to by Shakespeare In "King Lear." The site of Camelot has been much In dispute; Shakespeare supposed It to lie In Somersetshire; Tennyson and Capell located it at or near Winchester, and Caxtori placed It in Wales. The monks of Glastonbury Glaston-bury were rhlell.v responsible for the Somerset theory, which they maintained Tor the purpose of attracting at-tracting pilgrims. |