Qualla: Tintagel https://qualla.com/tintagel en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Tintagel https://qualla.com/tintagel Tintagel: Introduction https://qualla.com/tintagel/ Around 1136 a cleric named Geoffrey of Monmouth, writing in Latin for a Norman audience hungry for prestige, decided that King Arthur had been conceived at Tintagel. Geoffrey was very nearly making it up. The real history of Tintagel is more remarkable than the legend, and not in a way that diminishes either. The headland holds the ruins of a princely fortress that traded with the Mediterranean in the fifth and sixth centuries, importing pottery, oil, and wine from places British history was supposed to have lost touch with. Both stories - the medieval romance Geoffrey invented and the late-Roman trading post the archaeologists uncovered - are about a Britain that was not as isolated as people assumed.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/8/tintagel-wp/gch8-tintagel-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tintagel: What's In the Name https://qualla.com/tintagel/ Toponymists have argued about the name Tintagel for nearly nine centuries. The probability is that it is Norman French. The earliest reference, Geoffrey's Tintagol, would have been pronounced with a hard g, like English girl. By the time Layamon wrote his Brut in early Middle Eng...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/8/tintagel-wp/gch8-tintagel-whats-in-the-name.mp3 0:06 2 full Tintagel: Geoffrey's Fiction https://qualla.com/tintagel/ In Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, written around 1136 and almost instantly a bestseller across Norman Europe, Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall, hides his wife Igraine at the oppidum of Tintagol on the shore of the sea while he goes off to war. Merlin disguises Uther P...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/8/tintagel-wp/gch8-tintagel-geoffreys-fiction.mp3 0:06 3 full Tintagel: What Was Actually There https://qualla.com/tintagel/ The archaeology tells a different and arguably better story. C. A. Ralegh Radford's excavations in the 1930s, and later digs through the late twentieth century, revealed that Tintagel headland had been a high-status occupation site in the fifth and sixth centuries - the period im...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/8/tintagel-wp/gch8-tintagel-what-was-actually-there.mp3 0:06 4 full Tintagel: The Village That Grew Up Around the Story https://qualla.com/tintagel/ Bossiney and Trevena were established as a borough in 1253 by Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, the same Richard who built the castle. The borough sent two MPs to the House of Commons from about 1552 until 1832; the members included Sir Francis Walsingham, Sir Francis Drake, and Fra...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/8/tintagel-wp/gch8-tintagel-the-village-that-grew-up-around-the-story.mp3 0:06 5 full Tintagel: Two Truths on One Headland https://qualla.com/tintagel/ The cliffs around Tintagel are made of old Devonian slate, which contains traces of copper. In strong sunlight, the seawater shows a turquoise green that is genuinely strange - a colour you can read as enchanted or as a function of mineralogy, your choice. The Tintagel Slate Quar...

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