Tintagel

The Prose Merlin (English)

• attestation: Tintagell departs or rides [p44]: ynge, and rode till they come (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "On this massage was sente two worthy men fro the kynge, and rode till they come to Tintagell, and ther they fonde the Duke, and tolde hym their message as they weren charged."

• attestation: Death is referenced near Tintagel [p50]: the Dukes deth, that yef they (CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.)

  "And whan they beth come be-fore hym, that he profer for the pees and a-mendes for the Dukes deth, that yef they it refusen, that thei be holde for foies, and he for a wise man and a trewe."

• attestation: Tintagel is attested [p52] in CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.: "Tintagel, to speke with the duchess" (CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.)

  "and also comaunde to go to Tintagel, to speke with the duchesse, and with the Dukes frendes, and loke yef thei will haue this pees;"

• attestation: Tintagel arrives or returns [p53]: messagers com to the kynge, and (CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.)

  "And messagers com to the kynge, and seide as thei hadde founden, and the counseile that the lady hadde."

• attestation: Tintagel is attested [p53] in CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.: "Tintagel. Thus was take the day of" (CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.)

  "till the quynsyne that the lady and hir frendes * sholde come be-fore the kynge, for to haue right, and to here what the kynge wolde sey, and yef the kynges profer myght not agre the lady, and also hir frendes, thei hadde saf con- dite to retume to Tintagel."

• attestation: Tintagell is attested [p122] in CHAPTER XII: The return of the eleven rings to their cities, and their encounter: "Tintagell, where thei haue sette th" (CHAPTER XII: The return of the eleven rings to their cities, and their encounter)

  "shull haue grete damage of the kynge Arthur, be the helpe of the two kynges and of Merlin, that knoweth all oure ordenaunce, and he ne loveth vs nothinge, ffor as soone as thei knowe that the Saxons be entred, thei shull come for to distroye vs fro Tintagell, where thei haue sette theire wardes;"