subtitle, "Find adds to view that Cornish site was home to thriving trade port in early middle ages".
The inscribed stone uncovered at Tintagel Castle. Photograph: Christopher Ison/English Heritag/PA
The inscribed stone uncovered at Tintagel Castle. Photograph: Christopher Ison/English Heritag/PA
Translated, it says,
“Keep the borders secure, and keep Islam out”
“Sincerely, King Arthur”
“Send more Chuck Berry”
It has been translated as “this all shall be yours one day, even the curtains”
was home in the early middle ages to a sophisticated and multicultural port community.
I wonder if the Guardian of garbage knows what multiculturalism is.
There are Italians and Jews and Irish and Germans and Polish in my neighborhood. And I’m sure lots of other European countries.
Each still has some traditions from the ancestors’ homeland.
but our shared CULTURE is that of Americans.
Seems to be in the right spot for a trade port.
Layover on the way to Ireland and/or western and north western England and such.
Also, Cornwall’s north coast had tin mines.
Predates the Viking age and there is no mention of Tintagel in histories of the Vikings. Perhaps the site was abandoned after some civil strife by seventh century’s end.
“HIC ERAT ARTORIUS”
Tintagel Castle Ping!
“Beware of Islam”......................
