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Was Avalon the Isle of Mann?

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Viceromney55

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13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

No.

Avalon never really existed as a physical location. It is a legendary island featured in the Arthurian legend.

It first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 pseudohistorical account Historia Regum Britanniae ("The History of the Kings of Britain".

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