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Island of the Blest
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en Island of the Blessed
Proper noun
Islands of the Blest Island of the Blest
en mythology A paradisial island or archipelago, located to the far West, the abode of good people after death.
en 1850 Thomas Keightley Thomas Keightley The Fairy Mythology London H.G. Bohn 45 The Feeries of romance may be divided into three kinds: Avalon, placed in the ocean, like the Island of the Blest; those that, like the palace of Pari Banou, are within the earth; and, lastly, those that, like Oberon's domains, are situate 'in wilderness among the holtis hairy.'