A
Discussion of the Foret de Paimpont's Arthurian Connections
By
David Nash Ford
L E
F O R E T
D E P A I M P O N T
King
Arthur in Brittany
The woods
surrounding the village of Paimpont, about twenty
miles south-west of Rennes, is all the remains of the
once extensive Forest of Brocéliande, the heart of
Breton Arthurian Country. Here can still be found L'Etang
de Comper where the Lady
of the Lake lived, La Fontaine de Barenton
where Merlin
and the Lady met and Le Pont du Secret where Guinevere
declared her love for Lancelot.
Here also
stands Merlin's
Tomb, a prehistoric megalith where the Lady of
the Lake imprisoned King
Arthur's chief advisor. The old wizard rests
there still, but one day he will awaken. Roused from
his slumber by an unknown hero, he will summon King
Arthur and his sleeping knights from a nearby cave;
and together they will rid the Celtic World from the
usurping Germanic peoples.
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