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Tintagel Castle birthplace of King Arthur and in the caves below Merlin the magician lived and tutored the young Arthur.
See Map-olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Tintagel_Castle
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Between Land's End and the Scilly Isles is said to lie the submerged kingdom of Lyonesse, inundated in one night of storms.
A sole survivor rode ahead of the onrushing waves to make it to the higher ground at Land's End, his horse shedding a shoe as he raced. The kingdom had been ruled by the father of Tristan, of Tristan and Iseult fame, and all that remains of its capital, are the rocks of the Seven Stones reef now out at sea. Numerous villages and their churches were said to be lost, and on a calm day the bells of the submerged churches can still be heard. As well as the Tristan & Iseult link to Arthurian Legend, Alfred, Lord Tennyson located Arthur's final battle against Mordred in the kingdom of Lyonesse. Still today the remains of bronze villages lay off the coast of the Scilly Isles. See on the Map-Olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=The_Cornish_Atlantis_-_Lyonesse Find Tintagel Castle, Cornwall, birthplace of King Arthur on our map. In the caves below the castle Merlin the magician lived and tutored the young Arthur.
Sea, historic castle ruins, caves, all the atmosphere of legend and history - what more could you ask for. Could King Arthur have been born here? Was Camelot and the Round Table located here? Is this the birthplace of Arthurian legend clinging to cliffs above the raging Atlantic seas? Certainly Geoffrey of Monmouth, Malory and Tennyson thought so. |
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