Ok I’m back finally and today we’re finishing up my personal pictures from the Medieval Festival as well as Books as related to the Remfest and other similar festivals about the country and world…Of course there will be hot Scots and like that.

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

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FIRST THE BOOK AS A SOUVENIR OF THE FAIR:

WHEN I was at the Scottish Games and all manner of recreations and clan representations that have a lot in common with the Remfairs I found this little jewel about the home of many of my ancestors.

In this book Alistair Moffat looks at the shifting political shape of the land long before its modern borders were created.  In doing this he brings to vivid life the half forgotten kingdoms that came and went during Roman times, the Dark Ages and the early medieval period.  It’s a look at a little known period of history,, yet it is important to understanding Scottish history.  So there you are something new and informative from a fair purchase.

“We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.” – Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear

When the Fair is over—the fest is done you can find some books to keep it going and going:  You into Vamps—-not the scary ones but those hot, dreamy ones with flashing (in this case blue) eyes and then add a little time travel and a crazy lady (Macalister) writing the book and these visits to the dark side are sometimes silly, always sexy, and in this book (and several others of her titles) you end up in a Goth Village which, unknown to it’s visitors, is full of real practitioners of magic and real men who slay you with their eyes, seduce you with their body and maybe even sip one of those neck veins—not enough to kill just titillate and gives you a great fantasy to extend your adventure.

http://katiemacalister.com/

“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.” ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

Or relive the fairs with a faire motif:  This is a series of books involving the Pendragon Renissance fair.  Here there are a collection of people including     There are the patrons who visit once a year, faire-folk who live there for two months before moving on, the Fair Folk who never leave, are rarely seen, but whose presence is undeniable.  And then there are gypsies:  modern-day Gypsies, traveling across the country from faire to faire, earning a living and making a life. For them, “real life” and faire life blend together as they personify their nomadic lifestyle as Gypsies within the Renaissance world.   And of course there’s always Magik.  Now that’s a fair to keep you coming back for more—maybe enough to make you run away to join the Gypsies? or hunt for a fun faire?

http://www.faire-folk.com/synopses.html

“It is our choices that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter

Oh and this is another Katie Macalister book—that deals with Fairs—this time a medieval one:  A HARD DAY’S KNIGHT–she does a modern (normal—well as normal as it gets with Katie) where our heroine meets a knight in tarnished armor and the rest is silly, crazy Rem fair adventure.

“Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.” – Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

•  or maybe you’d like to go a book further:  This particular book: A Ren Faire to Remember can be personalized so that you are the hero of it all:

A Ren Faire to Remember

A Ren Faire to Remember is written by Madhavi Krevat, who has come up with an action-packed romantic story for anyone who likes medieval tales, Ren Faires, tales of King Arthur’s court, Merlin legends or the possibility that anything can happen at anytime.

A Ren Faire to Remember is a personalized tale, where the starring couple embark on an outing to London to attend the largest Renaissance Faire in the world. They find London alluring but are most excited about attending the colorful event where thousands of renaissance enthusiasts gather.

Dressing in period costumes, our couple encounter others wearing the vivid, intricate garb of knights, maidens, kings, queens, jesters, wizards, princesses, falconers, minstrels and more. Jousting tournaments, musical performances, and food booths provide continuous entertainment, and in the extravaganza the hero and heroine meet a mysterious stranger who is desperate for help.
Taking them into his confidence, he transports them to a medieval, mythical land where brave knights serve a legendary king. To help their new-found friend and to get back home themselves, they must complete a fantastic quest, traveling through dark forests, into dank caves, up lofty green hills, and finally to an ancient plain where pillars of stone hold mystical powers and provide a battle ground to resolve their predicament. Magic, intelligence, perseverance, pride, evil, virtue, jealousy, daring and especially love all mix to truly make this a Ren Faire to remember.

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“All paid homage but the king of Avaric, who wept, and the bandit queen, who could not console him.”
—Meredith Ann Pierce, The Pearl of the Soul of the World

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Check out this great bunch of Season 3 pictures:  https://www.pinterest.com/cspengler/outlander-season-3/

Check Cait and Sam saying good bye to Scotland:

‘Outlander’ Season 3: First Look At Jamie 20 Years Later — Watch

And check out the home page for the latest efforts to convince you the best is yet to come:

http://blog.outlanderhomepage.com/

“You have a stone in your heart, and some days it’s so heavy there is nothing to be done. ”
—Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear

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“All the tears women shed, they leave no mark on the world…”
—Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

“All the tears women shed, they leave no mark on the world…”
—Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

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Bay Area Renaissance Festival

Tampa, FL
Weekends, February 18 – April 2, 2017

For 39 years, the Bay Area Renaissance Festival has transformed Tampa into a 16th century village featuring more than 12 stages of entertainment, armored jousting, and fun for the whole family!

Check out the other 9 top Festivals in the state of Florida at: https://www.vacationsmadeeasy.com/TheBLT/11oftheBestRenaissanceFairsandFestivalsinFlorida786.html

Today we’ll do books as they apply to something we work at and/or love:   In this case  Medieval and Renaissance Fairs/Festival—with a nod to Scottish Games and the like as well.  And of course we’ll have Jamie….oh and the pictures by the way (at least the ones I took) are from the Tampa Festival on 3/18/17.

FESTIVAL HOURS OF OPERATION

WEEKENDS ONLY
Feb. 18th, 2017 – April 2nd, 2017
@10am – 6pm
Festival Friday, Mar. 31st, 2017

BOOKS AS SUCESS TOOLS

Books aren’t just for school items—-and they can be fun, entertaining or in this instance instructive.

If you work at or want to do so one of these festivals and fairs  as a musician,  a book like this might be a good place to star.   It includes music for flute, mandolin, reorder, whistle, guitar and more and if you plan on singing the lyrics are included too.  This one also includes a recording by it’s author:  Robert Bielefeld.  I also found one just for recorders*:  Mel Bay Medieval and Rennissance by Robert Bancalari.    And for those who dance and also play or plan to hook up with someone that does–the recorder there’s Medieeval and Renaissance  Dances for Recorders by Isabel Carley and also include Hand Drums.

*Recorders are not electrical devices for recording audio or video or the like but rather:  The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument in the group known as internal duct flutes—flutes with a whistle mouthpiece. It is distinguished from other duct flutes by having thumb-hole for the upper hand and seven finger-holes: three for the upper hand and four for the lower. It is the most prominent duct flute in the western classical tradition 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorder_(musical_instrument)

FESTIVAL LOCATION

11315 N. 46th Street
Tampa, FL 33617

THE BOOK AS AND EXPLANATION OF THE BELIEVER AND A CLARIFICATION TO THE UNINIATIATED

So how may of my readers out there are saying “Hey Wait Diva—what are all those weird dressed people…why do they go to festivals loosely based and long distance periods of time  and why would someone want to work there or even attend for that matter.   In the above book Well Met:  Renissance Faires & The American Counter Culture by Rachel Lee Rubin might help you to understand a bit more about these event that have been gaining popularity for years…as she states “All the faire’s a stage…. ”  And in this book you will discover (at least according to Ms. Rubin that at these faires everyone is on stage and always playing someone other than themselves….she never met me I like being me–the Dragon Diva…but then that jus is so right at one these festival….soooooooooooooooo.

Renaissance Festival Survival Guide: (A Scot’s Irreverent Look at the Modern American Renfest*)  gives you a look at what you discover at one of these faires and how to survive such things as:  Pirates, Belly-dancers, Renaissance Music, and many others, 

*Renfest by the way is the common abbreviation—again for those of you who haven’t developed a passion for these things.

Take a time-travel adventure into the 16th century at the annual Bay Area Renaissance Festival! Join our Queen in a jubilee! Journey back in time as more than 100 merchants contribute to the atmosphere of this charming 16th century village. Experience live armored jousting, 12 stages of entertainment, 7 theme weekends, and fun and food for the whole family! The Festival is open weekends, with a special day for schools and seniors on Festival Friday, March 31st, 2017. The Festival is open from 10 am – 6 pm, Rain or Shine. Parking at the Bay Area Renaissance Festival is always free! Discount tickets are available at participating Walgreens stores and at MOSI.

Our vote the best guy in a Kilt…

BOOK AS A GUIDE FOR THE REMFEST PURISTS:

One of the favorite subjects of the historian seems to be the Templars–a group of Catholic Monks/knights who formed an order to protect pilgrims in the Holy Lands on their pilgrimages.  Some where along the line they became an international power onto themselves which was greatly reinforced by their vas,  accumulated wealth and multiple properties including their round churches (see my previous discussions of the one left in London which {now} is the church of Inner and Middle Temple, two of England’s four ancient societies of lawyers, the Inns of Court http://www.templechurch.com/).  Reading a book like this will help someone into Templers and the like to develop a costume, locate or have made duplicate weapons—most fairs don’t allow you to bring sharp swords and the like, but very close acceptable one can be made.

Another book (also illustrated) that might be well met for the more  aggressive femmes out there is Women Warlords by Tim Newark whose illustrated book goes from Amazons of the Ancient World, through Celtic Queens (Medb, Cartimandua and one that you’ll be seeing more about in this book month–Boudica) and Women of Christ (Aethelflaed, Matilda of Tuscany and Eleanor of Aquitaine–one of my favorites–she took a group of ladies on the crusades and they were known for riding with exposed breasts—don’t think they’ll take that kindly at most Remfests I’ve been to) and ending with Hundred Years War Women (Jeanne of Montfort, Christine de Pisan, and finally Joan of Arc which even my least knowledgeable reader has probably heard of one way or the other).

Or something a bit more exotic?  Miranda J. Green’s The World of the Druid…which includes the “true history”, Classical sources, Irish myths, the latest discoveries, sacrifice an prophecy, female druids as well as Welsh bards and the modern Druid orders.”   This one is illustrated as well and all three could be extremely helpful in developing costumes, weapons, staffs, and other items including jewelry, head pieces and shoes to name just a few.

Barbarian Brew Fest (Mar. 25th – 26th)

getting you thru Droughlander  to the return of OUTLANDER, which is only a million years away now

Why the dogs and wolves were left out of season 1:  http://tvline.com/2017/03/03/outlander-season-1-cut-scene-wolves-father-bain/

Print shop teases from Sam and Cait:  http://tvline.com/2017/03/03/outlander-season-1-cut-scene-wolves-father-bain/

Season 3–a death in the family:  http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/10/outlander-season-3-sam-heughan

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This week we continue on books—but we’re gonna do series:  Something that has become more popular and money making for publishers and their authors over the last few years.

Today we’re doing the Novel/Series as an obsession.

All pictures —or at least the main and the ones at the beginning and end—–which I took are from the Morse Museum on Park Ave in Winter Park:  http://www.morsemuseum.org/

Frank at once settled down to the mating dance of the academe, and they were soon neck-deep in archetypes and the parallels between ancient superstitions and modern religions.  Outlander

When does a read become a passion—-when you start out with a British nurse (who’s just home from the front lines and reunited with her professor husband)  in 1945….then take her to Scotland with that loving, but not too exciting,  husband.  Then send her thru some time portal stones where she ends up still in Scotland—but now it’s 1743 and she’s in the middle of a unsteady peace threatening to break out into a war.

I must confess that I started with the TV movies first and then moved on to the book—I actually had the first few of them…I tend to pick up chucks of series and put them in my library to read when I get to it….I’m one of the few people I know that has my bookstore try to get me to not buy another series just yet….

When the writer makes you feel like you’re there—makes you relate to the heroine (me being a nurse didn’t help) and gives you a cast of characters that you’d like to be stranded in time with.

I turned my face to the wet pillow and sailed a salty river into the caverns of grief remembered, into the subterranean depths of sleep.

—Claire in Dragonfly in Amber, Prologue

And then you bring on a hero that’s tall, ginger and handsome, who actually treats women respectfully and is in a kilt….and is a true Scot (as in what’s he wearing underneath)…..oh and this is a spoiler….but to top it all off he’s a VIRGIN…….ok so when was the last time you read of such a hero and he’s strong, and brave, speaks multiple languages ….I could continue but Dianna might get me for copyright issues.

So what’s not to get obsessed about?  And then they get married to keep her out of trouble—which of course never works but then the marriage goes from convenience to hot and steamy and if you’re not hooked you never will obsess over a book so why am I wasting my time.

Now the fact that there’s a TV series of course helps the obcession cause the perfect man is now flesh and Sam blood;  Jamie  Land we can all identify with feisty and often open mouth insert self into grave danger Cait’s presentation of Claire.

Whether he was expecting a demon or an angel was uncertain. He had no idea of the staffing requirements of Purgatory; it wasn’t a matter the dominie had addressed in his schooldays.

—Jamie in Voyager, Chapter 1

And we have lots more that Time Travel and sexy episodes (though I’m not skippin’ any of those)—I’ve read all 8 books and we’ve had evil British officers, Nasty jealous staff,  a trial for witchcraft,  and that was all in the first book.

In addition to Scotland we deal with duels and quickie Kings in France to major battles back in Scotland.   From strange Masters of herbs to pretender’s son.   There are major battles and multiple sea voyages as well as sea sickness and acupuncture by strange Chinaman.  Print shops and battlefields….a new world and an Island home of an old aquaintanes.  And don’t forget the Lock Ness Monster who does not appear in the TV series.

And it’s all written by Diana  Gabalon:

Diana Gabaldon is the author of the award-winning, #1 NYT-bestselling OUTLANDER novels, described by Salon magazine as “the smartest historical sci-fi adventure-romance story ever written by a science Ph.D. with a background in scripting ‘Scrooge McDuck’ comics.”

http://www.dianagabaldon.com/about-diana/bio/

Still less could I be afraid of those ghosts who touch my thoughts in passing. Any library is filled with them. I can take a book from dusty shelves, and be haunted by the thoughts of one long dead, still lively as ever in their winding sheet of words.

—Claire in Drums of Autumn, Prologue

But these books aren’t all happy and healthy….there is death, destruction—rape of both the female and at least one of the male characters….there is rough bits and characters that aren’t always sweet and loveable.  In one episode one of the ladies is badly used when she is rescued and it is found out what happens none of the prisoners are left alive to stand trial for their crimes.  In another of the novels one of the main characters looses a hand compliment of the British army for thievery.

There are all manner of good and really evil characters and the best thing is that like in real life both are capable of going away from their standard paths.  We have gays and straights, sadists  and much more.   We go thru a world where jealousy is flaming and love even more so…..this is a romance that lives thru it all and endures but as one expects from two such independent characters not always serenely.  And there are other lovers, other romances, other stories of the old and new world….children come and grow and add their lives to the telling and it does not subtract from the lovers but rather enhances them within their tribe of family and friends.

So there you have it….a condensation of why the series constitutes an obsession for me and some of the many strains of that drug called Outlander that has me and millions of others hooked.

I have lived through war, and lost much. I know what’s worth the fight, and what is not. Honor and courage are matters of the bone, and what a man will kill for, he will sometimes die for, too. And that, O kinsman, is why a woman has broad hips; that bony basin will harbor a man and his child alike. A man’s life springs from his woman’s bones, and in her blood is his honor christened. For the sake of love alone, I would walk through fire again.
(Jamie, “The Fiery Cross”)

So here we are again…looking at books….and while on Wed. I spent time showing how a place in a book could be transposed by avid readers to an actual—if not necessarily supported by fact—place.    Today we’re gonna look at claims made in a specific book as an example of what you should look at before you take even a book presented as fact as the real thing.

Pictures still from Tintagel’s Halls of Arthur.

Also will be a bit about our favorite series as well.

He concludes that Camelot was a name invented by Chretien de Troyes, and possibly not relevant to the Arthur myth.

http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-of-the-lost-tomb-of-king-arthur-by-graham-phillips-part-1

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Today’s book is The Lost Tomb of King Arthur

By Graham Phillips

When researching a book for plausibility the first place to look is the Author (in this case writing about Arthur).  He is described as a reporter for BBC radio and founding editor of Strange Phenomena magazine.  Ok that doesn’t really tell me a lot but the magazine name isn’t promising.

OH what else has he written?

Previous books:

End of Eden–in which he blames a comet 3500 years ago for causing wars, abandonment of old and taking up new gods, as well as the disappearances of civilizations including those in  the Hindus Valley and the builders of Stone Henge—-HUM?.

Merlin & The Discovery of Avalon in the New World–A real Roman Merlin (this is based on an 8th century–300 years after Arthur was felt to be about–Irish manuscript) who sailed off to North America.  So is Avalon in the new world or in England per the new book we’re looking into.

The Templers and the Ark of the Covenant—and then we can add Indiana Jones and we have a movie script.

So far, at least from my limited knowledge may not be very good by conventional standard of the believable.  However if you’re looking for something a  it more unconventional he doesn’t sound bad.

‘In the Oxford University Library there is a poem from the Dark Ages which refers to the kings from Wroxeter who were buried at the Churches of Bassa – and when you think about anywhere in Shropshire that sounds similar, you think of Baschurch.

‘There is a place that matches the description just outside the village, an earthworks known as The Berth, which were two islands in a lake, though obviously the lake has now gone.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3594601/Is-King-Arthur-buried-field-Shropshire-Historian-claims-tomb-legendary-British-ruler-lies-near-sixth-century-village.html#ixzz4aHjTWWtS

Other books include one on Robin Hood whom he  finds existed just in a different place and time and Shakespeare who was so poorly document because he was a government spy and one on Mary Queen of Scott’s sacred stone which was buried in central England.

The first book to present the true identity of the mythic figure Merlin – Uncovers historical evidence that the legend of Merlin was based on the life of a real man – Reveals that Avalon, Merlin’s final resting place, was an island in the United States

https://www.bookdepository.com/Merlin-Discovery-Avalon-New-World-Graham-Phillips/9781591430476

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The book places Arthur’s main site—city,. fort, or encampment—at Wroxeter at a Roman site, called VIrocanium by the conquerors who built it and Rome’s fourth largest city in Great Britain.  During the time estimated to appropriate to Arthur (530-570 AD) there were several building built of wood frames on rubble platforms built on the existing Roman Site which was declining after the Empire’s with draw.    Late it became an Anglo Saxon site.  There is local tradition that Wroxeter was the site of Arhtur’s capital and Dr. Garth Evans said while the site could have been Arthur’s fortification it also could also have been any number of other local war lords as there is no evidence to support who the commander was.

There are in fact many places that have been estimated to be the fort or capital of Camelot.  One of the favorites is Caerleon in South Wales a pick of Geoffrey of Monmouth and Chreton de Troyes—early “experts” on Arthur.  This site is a Roman fort.   Cadbury Castle in Somerset, an Iron Age Fort which was used after the Roman withdrawal  until about AD 580.  Winchester, Hampshire is listed too but was the home of King Alfred the great which many people think the tradition is just confusion  about which king was there.  Even Tintagel, Cornwall is mentioned, but that pretty much is maintained as his birthplace rather than his long term residence.

There are other lesser known sites including our author’s choice as well as Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh,  The Roman Fort of Camboglanna on Hadrian’s Wall,  also in Colchester and Roxbury Castle on the Scottish Border to name  a few of the lesser favorites.

I am inspired mainly by the fact that they are mysteries. The idea of being the first person to solve something is really exciting to me.  Graham Phillips

As we’ve previously noted in a quote, he takes the site location from a similar name and the fact that it is said that the Kings of Sussex were buried here….He goes on to say that previous excavation had been done and a piece of metal and he feels that this is Arthur buried with his shield.  Of course surprise, surprise the town has put a trail up and is hyping the Arthur reference with the trail.

Historians that I put more stock in like Geoffrey Ashe and others pick Glastonbury, a favorite  as the site of Arthur’s burial:  “Most historians, not all, have dismissed the exhumation as fraudulent. Arthur’s grave, they would have us believe, was concocted to enhance the Abbey’s prestige and attract funds for rebuilding, after a recent fire. Another motive perhaps was political. Welshmen were encouraged to resist English domination by the hope that Arthur would return and help them. Proof that he was dead, and wouldn’t, might have been expected to dispel that hope and win royal favour.

“Both these motives are plausible, and they are often cited as if they were proven facts. The truth is that they are modern speculations only. There is no serious evidence that the grave ever was exploited to raise money, or used as a propaganda weapon. In 1962-3 excavations by Ralegh Radford confirmed the monks’ account so far as it could be confirmed. They had dug where they said and they had uncovered an early burial. To that extent, then, the grave was genuine”

https://www.bing.com/search?q=what+kinds+of+shields+did+5th+c+noble+me+in+wessex+use%3F&form=EDGTCT&qs=PF&cvid=4abb873ae08f4f14b597048cc0d91c77&pq=what+kinds+of+shields+did+5th+c+noble+me+in+wessex+use%3F&cc=US&setlang=en-US

Arthur is discovered to have come from a tribe resettled in northern central Wales, and to have led a nationalist Christian pact of British tribes against the pagan invaders. “Arthur”, the authors conclude, is merely a title, and his true name Owen Ddantgwyn. They also identify his burial place as a mound called The Berth, north-west of Shrewsbury

https://www.amazon.com/King-Arthur-Story-Graham-Phillips/dp/0785733531

So what have we decided?  If you’re looking for alternative and the less conservative look on things you probably have found that this might be the book and Author for you…Also this particular subject is pretty much wide open for interpretation as there’s not been a lot of real hands on evidence that can’t be interpreted several ways so I’ve found that with this subject it’s what works for you—but still if you’re looking at different books on more specific subjects  there’s still some other things that might help you:

The cons to this artist:  Jason Colavito :  an American author. Colavito wrote The Cult of Alien Gods: H. P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture and is a contributor to Skeptic magazine.  Colavito claims that Phillips uses a lot of other author’s material in his books and calls him a “so-called” real life Indiana Jones.

On the other hand Andrew Collins, wrote Gobekli: Genesis of the Gods, states that his books:  “reveal the true history of…the legendary king.”

There was almost certainly more than one chapel at Baschurch, otherwise the place would not have been called the Churches (plural) of Bassa in the seventh century. Medieval churches were often built on the sites of pre-existing Dark Age chapels, and records from the early twelfth century record three churches in the area, but only one was close to the shores of the original lake. Indeed, its foundation stones were still visible in the early twentieth century. It was beside a lane around 200 metres to the south-east of southern Berth causeway, but the stones were removed and the site tarmacked over when a modern road was laid in the 1930s

http://www.grahamphillips.net/arthur_tomb/arthur_tomb8.html

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They also have books on the suppressed history of American banking; Templar sanctuaries in North America and one on how Sumeria  was destroyed by an ancient nuclear event and ancient astronauts.

He is now calling on English Heritage to allow an investigation on an earthworks just outside the village, while he is also interested in looking at the site of a former chapel.
http://metro.co.uk/2016/05/17/historian-claims-he-has-worked-out-where-king-arthur-is-really-buried-5888518/#ixzz4aOYRcFKv

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Archaeological evidence indicates that there probably was a church at Glastonbury Abbey in the early Dark Ages. There is evidence that the monks did excavate at the Abbey and possibly found burials near the Lady Chapel. These may have been royal bones, as many early English kings were buried there. Archaeolgical excavations at Glastonbury Tor indicate that the site was occupied in the 5th century AD and was probably a fortified site. One version of the legend has Guinevere being abducted to Glastonbury Tor, which was then a fortification, held by King Melwas.

http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology-old/museum/kingarth/4avala.html

A New month:  March and this month I’m featuring various books on various subject and with various treatments….from today where I look at a book and the area that just might be involved with it…..to Friday when I look at a book that claims to have found something that has been illusive at it’s very best….and from there where else I wander—from murdered princes to heaven knows when or where it’s a look at literature from the deviated delusions of your diva friend—hey that’s me…

And of course you’re never far from my favorite books—and my lovely addiction:  Outlander….yummy.

Oh and my pictures today are from King Arthur’s Great Hall in Tintagel, Cornwall—the UK…..and for those of you who are really in to Arthur—this hall is a must….and Tintagel is a great place to dream of a Once and Future Kingdom by the sea…..

You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you’ll just weep yourself to death.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King   

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More on the continuing filming:  http://www.ibtimes.com.au/outlander-season-3-new-pictures-set-extras-try-hide-costume-black-blue-coats-1542315

Neat site on Outlander Clans and Families:  http://outlander.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Clans_and_Families

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