Most scholars regard it as being entirely fictional, its unspecified geography being perfect for chivalric romance writers. The stories locate it somewhere in Great Britain and sometimes associate it with real cities, though more usually its precise location is not revealed. Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century French romances and, since the Lancelot-Grail cycle, eventually came to be described as the fantastic capital of Arthur's realm and a symbol of the Arthurian world. Guinevere, Knights of the Round Table, Morgan le FayĬamelot is a castle and court associated with the legendary King Arthur. Gustave Doré's illustration of Camelot from Idylls of the King (1867)
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