Orquenseles

Orkenise, Orquelenes, Orqueneseles, Orquenise

Guiromelant boasts of holding this city from God, and no one else.

I suspect that it is the same city to which Gawaine went, the day before meeting Guiromelant, to fetch the Haughty Maid of Logres' palfrey from its garden.

Apparently lying just over the Galloway border, this was a strongly walled town, as large as Pavia, with a noble castle and a busy-looking seaport; between sea and river, it was well circled by water.