Island of the Blest

plural Islands of the Blest · alternative Island of the Blessed

1. human sciencesA paradisial island or archipelago, located to the far West, the abode of good people after death.

   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.'

   1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 45