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COTOATRE
The town, and possibly a lake, of the smith Trabuchet in Chrétien de Troyes’s Perceval. Perceval had to travel there to repair the Grail Sword. It becomes a castle in the Fourth Continuation of Perceval and a kingdom in Girart d’Amiens’s Escanor. R.S. Loomis and D.D.R. Owen identified it with Firth of Forth, called in medieval times "Scottewatre", indicating the Firth of Forth - an identification Cline clearly accepts, for he does not even use the name "Cotoatre", simply calling Trebuchet's home area the Firth of Forth.
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