Merlin & Avalon

The book I read to research this post was Merlin & the Discovery of Avalon in the New World by Graham Phillips which is a very good book which I bought from Amazon. This is following on from my other posts on King Arthur so if you haven't read them it might be a good idea to, they are at scratbagdave.com . Anyway in this book it's claimed that Pointpont in Brittany is the site of the final battle where King Arthur died & that the nearby lake is where excalibur was thrown into. It's also claimed that excalibur was made nearby. The locals certainly believe it & there's a thriving tourist industry at this little town. The book then goes on to say that there's an account of St Brendan visiting first the faroe islands, then iceland, then southern greenland & then america. This is contrasted with a similiar account of Merlin going to Avalon. You have to use your imagination a little bit. It's claimed for example that the description of cliffs with seabirds is the Faroes but couldn't that be the Shetlands. An interesting thing in the book is he visited a small island off Maine that has got miles & miles of white sand as in the legend. Also there's an ancient stone circle which could be Merlin's final resting place. Nobody's knows much about the stone circle. I'm not entirely convinced by this book but it remains an interesting book nonetheless.