Battle of Camlann Battle of Camlann The Battle of Camlann ( or "Brwydr Camlan") is reputed to have been the final battle of King Arthur, in which he either died or was fatally wounded, fighting either with or against Mordred, who is also said to have died. The name may derive from a Brittonic "*Cambo-landa" ("crooked/twisting-enclosure" or "crooked/twisting open land"), or (less likely) "*Cambo-glanna" ("crooked/twisting bank (of a river)"), as found in the name of the Roman fort of Camboglanna in Cumbria. The earliest known reference to the battle of Camlann is an entry in the 10th-century "Annales Cambriae", recording the battle in
The Legend of King Arthur in detail, but the resulting periodic presentation, if not the medium itself, dilutes the force and drama of the Arthurian story in a way that rarely happens in literature, and certainly not either in the French Vulgate or in Malory." A tie-in novel, "The Legend of King Arthur", authored by the screenwriter Andrew Davies, was published in London by Fontana/Armada in 1979. The serial was released on VHS by BBC Video in 1985, and on DVD by Simply Media in 2016. The Legend of King Arthur The Legend of King Arthur is a British television fantasy serial, produced by the