The greater abbeys of England, with illustrations in colour after Warwick Goble (1908)
Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York ; Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 164
rocity and rapacity of the Danes. Hither toocame Gildas, from his hermitage on the Steep Holmeaway across the waters of the Channel, to reconcileArthur to his Queen Guinevere. And hither also: To the island-valley of Avilion;Where falls not hail, or rain or any snow,Nor even wind blows loudly; but… … Glastonbury Queen, who had already been laid to rest within theprecin6ts of that Sanctuary. Here, centuries- later, in1191, King Henry II caused to be made an examina-tion of the spot pointed out by the Welsh bards as theplace of Arthurs burial, and Giraldus Cambrensis,who professes to have been an…
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