Gasquet, Francis Aidan, Cardinal, 1846-1929 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 159
city 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 vi^ind blows loudly; but… … Glastonbury Qiieen, who had already been laid to rest within theprecindls of that San6tuary. 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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