PERILOUS ROCK, PORT OF

Malory mentions this mysterious spot only once, in the Grail Adventures - and that in a flashback. Nascien, entering a ship at the isle of Turnance, was blown to "another ship where King Mordrains was, which had been tempted full evil with a fiend in the Port of Perilous Rock", all this happening forty years after Christ's Passion. If Turnance is identified with Lundy, then Morte Point, in Devonshire, west of Ilfracome, might be a good spot for the Port of Perilous Rock, "Morte" suggesting death and therefore peril.

I do not know whether the rocks are perilous there today, but even if they are not, they may have been fifteen or twenty centuries ago.