ORKNEY

Phyllis Ann Karr suspect that "Orkney" in Arthurian lore included more than simply the Orkney Islands - that it might include all Scotland south to Lothian.

In the last pages Chrétien de Troyes wrote, he has Orkney as a city where Arthur holds court. Chrétien's Orkney lies two full traveling days [north of?] the area of Canguin and Orqueneseles, and seems to be on the mainland. This apparently puzzled Hilka, who noted that the Orkneys are islands, not a city. It would seem more or less to bear out my own earlier guess, at least as far as the place name being applied a little differently in the context of medieval Arthurian romance.