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Mythological objects encompass a variety of items (e.g. weapons, ... In later Arthurian legend, Pridwen was the name of Arthur's shield. (Arthurian legend)
Some of the magical objects listed can be shown to have earlier origins in Welsh narrative tradition. Items 1, 2 and 7, for instance, are also described in the Middle Welsh tale Culhwch ac Olwen (tentatively dated to c . 1100), in which Ysbaddaden the Giant gives King Arthur 's cousin Culhwch a list of impossible tasks ( anoetheu ) which he has ...
Rhongomyniad, or Rhongomiant (variously translated as "Slaying Spear," "Cutting Spear" or "Striking Spear"), was the spear of King Arthur in the Welsh Arthurian legends. Unlike Arthur’s two other weapons, his sword Caledfwlch and his dagger Carnwennan, Rhongomyniad has no apparent magical powers.
Gram – Sword of the hero Sigurd from Norse mythology, also known as Nothung in the Ring cycle; Gríðarvölr – A magical staff given to Thor by Gríðr so he could kill the giant Geirröd. Gungnir – Odin's spear created by the dwarf Dvalinn. The spear is described as being so well balanced that it could strike any target, no matter the ...
By the 15th century, Perceval had become Galahad, the son of Arthurian knight Lancelot, who goes on a quest for the grail, finds it, and chooses to die on the way back after a heavenly vision ...
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Arthurian revisionist fantasy novel The Mists of Avalon (1983) presented the Grail as a symbol of water, part of a set of objects representing the four classical elements. The main theme of Rosalind Miles' Child of the Holy Grail (2000) in her Guenevere series is the story of the Grail quest by the 14-year-old Galahad.
Avalon (/ ˈ æ v ə l ɒ n /) [note 1] is a mythical island featured in the Arthurian legend.It first appeared in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 Historia Regum Britanniae as a place of magic where King Arthur's sword Excalibur was made and later where Arthur was taken to recover from being gravely wounded at the Battle of Camlann.
In a 1992 article in the journal Colloquia Germanica, Aaron E. Wright argues the Petitcrieu is not actually a dog in Tristan, but rather an inanimate object, as evidenced by the character's unnatural coloration, lack of energy or appetite, and how other characters treat it.