Glastonbury Abbey myths 'made up by monks'

[Still Waters]

A four year study by archaeologists has comprehensively demolished cherished myths about one of the most romantic religious sites in England, Glastonbury Abbey.

Those feet, immortalised in William Blake's poem Jerusalem, never walked on the green and pleasant land of Glastonbury; the oldest church in England was not built there by Christ's disciples; Joseph of Arimathea's walking stick does not miraculously flower every Christmas after 2,000 years. And it turns out that the supposed link with King Arthur and his beautiful queen, Guinevere, is false too - invented by 12th-century monks faced with a financial crisis in the wake of a disastrous fire.

http://www.theguardi...h-century-monks

[Black Monk]

Well, that's the Lefties at the Graun having just "demolished" some of ancient's greatest myths and legends there.

Let's hope our remaining myths and legends don't suffer the same cultural vandalism by the Left.

Edited November 25, 2015 by Black Monk