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Take your stand on Wearyall Hill, and brood awhile upon the surroundings. You thrill to think that here St. Joseph might have paused; that here, where lies a stone engraved with J. A., his withered pilgrim’s staff might have burst into bloom. A few young trees are bending to the wind; down below the old city stretches away in grey lines, and there are some tumble-down houses of antique appearance produced by the old rafters and rough stone of which they are constructed. Bright and cheerful are many lattice windows which twinkle out between the heavy time-scarred mullions wrought long and long ago. Yonder is Tor Hill, and the great green valley spreads southward, strewn with trees thickly, and ending only where the dipping horizon meets it. The two Glastonbury towers are standing out boldly, almost as if defiant; the red roofs of the city cluster below; and, set deeply and immutably among aged and dark green trees, are the rent but erect walls of the first Christian Abbey.
Or retrace your steps, and after passing the Abbey bounds, mount the steep Tor and stand by the Tower which alone escaped the shattering force of earthquake. From this summit the view of the landscape is far and good. Scarcely can you realise that once the salt waves lapped this steep eminence, but the sand and shells mixed and embedded in the soil have graven that event more legibly than the pen of man could have inscribed it. It is sunset—sunset over the Avalonian isle. The day has been calm and grey, and the end is to be calm, autumnal, subdued. There is one long quivering stretch of cardinal in the west, but elsewhere the sky is wonderfully sombre, yet exquisitely soft and pearly clear. The furthermost limit of the vale fast becomes invisible, fading imperceptibly, apparently merging into the sky as it becomes a pure deep blue. Here and there a purple peak of the range of hills running seaward rises sharply and pierces the thin gauzy clouds which the wind brings up. The white road gleams below, wholly deserted, yet fancy may conjure up spectres gliding at nightfall along the once hallowed way to the shrine. On this steep hill, alone, cloud-high, you feel that the silence is mystical, and wonder if the sleeping city with its ghosts and traditions is like the fabled cities of enchanters which rise at night without foundation and dissolve like mist in the earliest light of morning.
INDEX
(Mainly of persons and places)
- Aberystwyth, relics near, [11]
- Akeman Street, [123]
- Almesbury (Amesbury), [175-80]
- Alnwick, [44]
- Ambrosius, [15]
- Aneurin, his testimony to Arthur, [9]
- Arderydd, [66], [71], [82]
- Arnold, Matthew, quoted, [30], [35], [80]
- Arthur (Artus, Arcturus), King—
- his widespread fame, [2], [3];
- Saxon opponents of, [4];
- an allegorical figure, [6], [27], [61];
- Caxton on his identity, [9];
- bardic chroniclers, [9-18], [62];
- Geoffrey’s history of, [18];
- the elemental hero, [29], [33], [149];
- his domain, [31], [38], [39], [46-59], [64];
- Scotch references, [52], [68];
- his birth, [90];
- his coronation, [115];
- his Round Table, [130-58];
- as warrior, [149];
- as national hero, [150], [151];
- his battle at Badon, [155-6];
- in Italy, [157];
- his marriage, [160];
- at Camelot, [159] et seq.;
- battle at Slaughter Bridge, [200];
- his death-wound, [205];
- his tomb, [207-9];
- in Avalon, [238-47];
- supposed remains, [241], [249]
- Arviragus, King, [223]
- Astolat, [55]
- Aurelius Ambrosius, [71], [74]
- Avalon (Avilion), [43], [51];
- described [216] et seq. [See “Glastonbury”]
- Badbury Rings, [153]
- Badon (Mons Badonicus), [4], [13], [51], [152-6]
- Bagdemagus, Sir, [77]
- Balin, Sir, [84], [129], [167]
- Bamborough Castle, [44]
- Barham Down, [156], [204]
- Bath, [152]
- Battles, King Arthur’s, [4], [29], [62], [125], [151];
- the last at Camelford, [198], [200-1], [204], [208];
- with Melvas, [240]
- Bedivere, Sir, [205 n.], [211], [213], [251]
- Belenus, [123]
- Blackmore, poet, [30]
- Blaise (Bleys), [83]
- Borron, Robert de, [188], [230]
- Borrow, George, quoted, [90 n.], [188], [230]
- Bors, Sir, [188], [191]
- Boscastle, [101]
- Bossiney, [101], [183]
- Brecknock, [46], [49], [144]
- Brécéliande (Broceliand, Brocelinde), forest of, [79], [81]
- Brittany, [43], [68]
- Brue, river, [219]
- Brythons, the, [3], [4], [47]
- Bude, [101-2]
- Cadbury Camp, Somerset, [141], [160], [171-2]
- Cadwalla, [5]
- Caerleon, [39], [53];
- described, [113-29]
- Caerwent, [125], [126], [168]
- Camden, quoted, [96], [244]
- Camel, river, [198-9]
- Camelford, [55-7], [101]; described, [194] et seq.
- Cameliard, [39], [46-9]
- Camelot, described, [159] et seq.
- Caractacus, [129]
- Carbonek, [38]
- Carew, historian, [95]
- Carmarthen, Merlin’s Cave at, [67], [78]
- Carobaise, [46]
- Castle Denis, [49]
- Castle-an-Dinas, [111]
- Cattraeth, battle of, [9-10]
- Caxton, his testimony to Arthur, [8], [9], [26]
- Cefn Bryn, [48]
- Celts, the, and their influence on history and legend, [3], [23], [31], [35], [66], [176], [213], [230], [231]
- Cerdic, [4], [5], [48], [153], [155]
- Chalice Hill, [229]
- Clevedon, [172]
- Constantinople, [39]
- Cormac, [107]
- Craik, Mrs., [96]
- David, St., [63], [236]
- Dawstane, [10]
- Dinas Emrys, [71], [76 n.]
- Douarnenez, [46]
- Dozmare Pool, [211-14]
- Drayton, quoted, [144], [155], [171]
- Dryden, [30]
- Dubric (Dubritius), [115], [125], [129], [155]
- Dunchine, [93]
- Dunstan, [236], [237]
- Ector, Sir, [90], [180]
- Edinburgh, [52]
- Edward I, King, at Glastonbury, [249]
- Eildon Hills, [51]
- Emerson, quoted, [33]
- Ettarde, [164]
- Evelake, King, [235]
- Excalibur, [211]
- Freeman, Professor, quoted, [153], [218], [236]
- Frere, J. K., quoted, [136]
- Gaisnar, [21]
- Galahad, [23], [41], [145], [148], [187], [191], [233]
- Gawaine, [79], [81], [161];
- his character, [161-3], [166], [204]
- Geoffrey of Monmouth, [18-21], [95], [115], [118], [131], [251]
- Geraint, [129]
- Gibbon, [27]
- Gildas the historian, [10], [12], [13-16], [153], [246]
- Giraldus Cambriensis, [20]
- Glastonbury, Gildas at, [15];
- history and description of, [216-56]
- “Gleam, The,” [69]
- Glennie, Stuart, quoted, [54], [66], [76 n.]
- Goothe, [38]
- Gorlois, [90], [91]
- Grail, the. [See “Holy Grail”]
- Gray, [30]
- Guenevere (Guinevere, Gwenhwyvar), Queen, [62], [114], [132], [175-82], [240]
- Guest, Lady Charlotte, [78], [153], [162], [238]
- Guildford, [55-7]
- Henry II, King, at Glastonbury, [241-4]
- Henry of Bloys, [241]
- Holy Grail, the, [23], [133], [145];
- the quest of, [186];
- legend of, [187-93], [230]
- Holy Thorn, in Scotland, [52];
- legend of, [223-28]
- Hueil (Howel), [15], [16], [50]
- Iceland, [64]
- Ider, [239]
- Igraine, [90]
- Inis vitrea (Ynyswytryn). [See “Glastonbury”]
- Iseult (Isoud). [See “Tristram and Iseult”]
- Jagent, [38]
- Joseph of Arimathæa, [186], [188], [193];
- at Glastonbury, [221-33] passim
- Joyous Gard, [43], [44], [45], [53], [179]
- Julian Way, the, [123], [168]
- Kay (Kaye), Sir, [91], [161]
- Knighton’s (Nectan’s) Kieve, St., [183-93]
- Knights, the, [37]; their Round Table, [131] et seq.;
- adventures at Camelot, [161], [166];
- the last, [200]
- Kynon, [11]
- Lancelot, Sir, [44], [45], [55], [160], [166], [174], [178], [191]
- Landerneau, [45]
- Land’s End, [42]
- Layamon, [21], [22]
- Leland, quoted, [14], [94], [95], [126], [142], [168], [171], [182], [245]
- Leodegraunce, King, [132-3]
- Llanilterne, Guinevere’s tomb at, [179]
- Llywarch Hên, [9], [11], [34]
- Logris, [36]
- Lonazep, [38]
- Lot, King, [174]
- Lowell, J. R., [30]
- Lyonnesse, [40], [42], [43]
- Lytton, Lord, quoted, [30], [111], [128], [158], [163 n.]
- “Mabinogion,” the, [117], [129]
- Mackinnon, Dr., quoted, [13]
- Malory, Sir Thomas, [25], [26], [27], [106], [191], [212]
- Map (Mapes), Walter, [22-5], [188]
- Mark (Marc’h), King, [41], [46], [104], [106]
- Melvas, King, [239]
- Merlin, [25], [43], [66], [132]; his history, [67-71];
- drama of, [72-5];
- his doom, [75-8];
- his influence, [83];
- his prophecies, [246]
- Milton, [24], [30], [62]
- Moel Arthur, [49]
- Mons Badonicus. [See “Badon”]
- Mordred, [129], [200-3]
- Morris, William, [30]
- Mount, St. Michael’s, [42]
- Myrdin Emrys, [67], [71]
- Nantanleod, King, [4]
- Nennius, [12], [16]
- Nimuë (Vivien), [72], [77]
- Norden, on Tintagel, [97]
- Nutt, David, [191]
- Odin, [64]
- Olaf, [64]
- Orkneys, [52]
- Patrick, St., [236]
- Pelleas, [163-5], [188-9]
- Pellinore, King, [146]
- Pendragon Castle, [51]
- Penrith, [141]
- Pen-y-Van, [144]
- Percivale (Parzifal, Perceval), [134], [186], [189]
- “Perilous, Siege,” [146], [165]
- Petersaint, [38]
- Quoits, Arthur’s, [48-9]
- Renan, [46], [80], [176]
- Ritson, Joseph, [46], [154], [156]
- Rocky Valley, Tintagel, [183]
- Rome, [65], [151], [157]
- Round Table, the, [119];
- history of, [130-58];
- supposed localities, [141] et seq.;
- its symbolism, [145]
- Row Tor, [213]
- Sancgreal, the. [See “Holy Grail”]
- Sandwich, [158]
- Sarras, [190], [192], [193]
- Scilly, [40]
- Scott, Sir Walter, quoted, [12], [26], [30], [68], [141], [142]
- Shalott, [163], [181]
- Silchester, [116 n.]
- Silures, the, [24], [47], [126]
- Slaughter Bridge, [199], [205]
- Snowdon, [71], [76]
- Sommer, Dr., [26], [29]
- Southey, [29]
- Souvestre, Emile, [81]
- Spenser, [30], [77], [233]
- Steep Holm, [14]
- Stephen’s, St. (Steven’s), Camelot, [160], [174]
- Stonehenge, [3], [75], [154]
- Stow’s Chronicle, [215]
- Strachey, Sir E., quoted, [27], [64]
- Surluse (Surluce), [40], [41]
- Swinburne, quoted, [30]
- Talhairan, [129]
- Taliesin, [9], [11], [129]
- Ten Brink, quoted, [135]
- Tennyson, [30];
- at Caerleon, [126-28], [155], [162];
- description of Camelot, [170];
- on Guinevere, [175];
- the Grail legend, [193];
- on Mordred, [203]
- Terabyl, [91], [92]
- Thierry, [34]
- Thomas the Rhymer, [104]
- Tintagel, [53];
- described, [88-111] passim
- Tor, the Glastonbury, [220], [236], [255]
- Tristram and Iseult, [44], [46], [89], [103-6], [174]
- Tweed, the, [68], [69], [70]
- Urien, [11]
- Usk, river, [67], [115], [119]
- Uther (Uter), King, [64], [71], [74], [75], [89], [90], [132]
- Uwaine, Sir, [72]
- Veitch, professor, [71]
- Vellan, [42]
- Vivien, [77], [79], [81]
- Vortigern, [63 n.], [71], [76]
- Wace, [21], [80], [131]
- Wagner, [107]
- Warton, [30], [139]
- Waste Lands, the, [38]
- Weary All (Wirral, Worall) Hill, [223]
- Wedmore, palace at, [247]
- Wells Abbey, [229]
- Wigan, battle at, [51]
- William of Newburgh, [20]
- Winchester, [55], [131], [143], [167], [139-41] passim
- Wodensbury, battle at, [5]
- Wolfram von Ezchenbach, [189]
- Ynyswytryn. [See “Glastonbury”]
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