Eildon Hills
 King Arthur |
There has always been some mystery surrounding the burial place of King Arthur, but Scottish tradition firmly places his grave to the south of Melrose. One of Scotland's prophets, Thomas the Rhymer, appears to a horse-dealer in the tale of the Fian warriors and shows him a secret cave in the Eilden Hills 'where sleep an army of ancient ghostly warriors headed by King Arthur'. The three vast summits of the Eilden Hills mark the domes of the vast subterranean halls in which the Arthurian chivalry await, in an enchanted sleep, the bugle blast of the Adventurer who will call them at length to a new life.