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- Mont du Chat
'Mountain of the Cat'
The supposed site, in the Alps ('Mountain of the Cat' or 'Cat Mountain'), of a fight between Arthur and a large cat. This is apparently a Continental version of the Cath Palug legend. A Savoyard was thought to have met Arthur's men at night in the vicinity of this mountain and to have been brought by them to a palace which had vanished in the morning.
- Mont St. Michel, Giant of
A hill in Brittany that served as the lair of a Spanish giant who kidnapped Helen, the daughter, niece, or wife of Hoel of Brittany. Wace names the giant Dinabuc. Arthur and his knights, on their way to fight the Roman War, heard of the abduction and rode to rescue the lady. Arthur, Kay, and Bedivere arrived to find the lady dead (either killed by the giant or by herself to avoid rape). They crept to the giant’s lair and found him roasting children (or, in Geoffrey, piglets) on a spit. Arthur challenged and killed him. Arthur later ordered a church built at this site. In the Norse Saga of Tristram and Ísönd, Tristan builds his famous Hall of Statues in the giant’s former cave. According to the Middle English Parlement of the Thre Ages, Arthur fought a dragon, rather than a giant, on Mont St. Michel. The Prose Brut calls the location Saint Bernard’s Mount.
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