Started by the monks* that fibbed about having the graves of Guinevere and Arthur!
😆
Visitors spend money!
12th C. Glastonbury Abbey. So 500 to 700 years later than Arthur.
https://www.medievalists.net/2025/09/medieval-discovery-arthur-glastonbury/
(evil 3rd party javascript & trackers)
About the same time as the Pope "gave" Ireland to Henry II and the Normans invaded. Or about 100 years after the Normans conquered England.
"Joseph of Arimathea had brought the Holy Grail" to Glastonbury. Mediaeval French Fan fiction of Welsh tales.
Ray McCarthy
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