I assume this was a grift — they “found” some bodies and declared them Arthur and Guinevere, and suddenly the site became a pilgrimage destination and lots of money started flowing in from the pilgrims.
Says right there: they dug to find them. Actually finding them might have better chances elsewhere, on account of the bodies being elsewhere, but the light was better here and they didn’t have to walk that far.
In that case, the headline could read instead as:
Medieval monks were sly
The faithful were suckersBingo. There is no real historical proof that Arthur existed (that I know of), all historical mentions of him are likely themselves taken from already poetic sources.
In a thousand years (if we last that long) they’ll have similar signs in Jerusalem and Rome.
I don’t get it.
Arthur probably didn’t exist. Guinevere certainly didn’t. Even if they did, there’s no reason to assume any particular location would be the location of their tombs.
Plus, according to the legend, Arthur’s supposed to be alive and in the mystical island of Avalon, waiting until he is needed to return and become king again. These guys needed to look up their Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Basically, it would be like digging to find the tomb of Uncle Sam and his wife.
No joke: Uncle Sam was a real guy and Ive been to his grave. I forget if his wife was there (or if he had one).
There is no Easter Bunny. There is no Tooth Fairy. There is no Once and Future King of England!
Fun fact, he was actually right in the original version — there hasn’t been a queen of England since 1707, when the kingdoms of England and Scotland were replaced with one kingdom of Great Britain
Sort of. But they were still kings and queens of England, just also other kingdoms too.
There was no title “king of England” or “queen of England” as of that date, in the same way that there is no king of Sheffield. There’s a king whose kingdom includes Sheffield, yes, but it’s not the kingdom of Sheffield
I always assumed it was similar to how QE2 was the Queen of Canada, making our monarchy separately and independent but parallel to the UK monarchy.
It was up until the Acts of Union 1707. Ireland got a similar treatment in 1800 (and then reduced to Northern Ireland later, of course)
There is no Once and Future King of England
So far!
… though I expect if there is one, it’s that shitty hologram/AI technology hybrid
Basically, it would be like digging to find the tomb of Uncle Sam and his wife.
I just had the most amazing idea for a post-apocalyptic roleplay campaign.
Or they had tombs made for them and they remained empty because Arthur is alive on the mystical island of Avalon
Yaknow, pharaoh pyramid rules - they built those suckers when the dude was still alive. But one dude just didn’t have to use his “pyramid” cause he floating on an island.
Arthur is alive and hanging out just north of Ardougne
They made great brews though.
