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TURNING
- Turning Castle
Forbidden Castle
A tower in the land of the Knight of the Burning Dragon found in Perlesvaus. Supposedly designed by Vergil, it spun around on its axis. Copper archers fired bolts from its battlements. Perceval destroyed all its magic by attacking it, and its people were liberated. Castles that rotate on an axis are a common theme in Celtic literature. Guinebal, Lancelot’s uncle, sets one spinning in the Perilous Forest in the Vulgate Merlin, and another is mentioned in the Livre d’Artus.
- Turning Isle
Turnance, Turnaunce
Malory seems to name this site only once, as an island where Nascien spent eight days, some forty years after Christ's Passion. Surmising, however, that it may be the same island where Percivale spent some time during the Grail Adventures. If so, it is a likely place to experience visions and temptations when one is questing for the Grail. Turnance figures more extensively in the Vulgate account.
I would suggest identifying it with Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel.
See also
Marcoisa
Perilous Rock, Port of
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