Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Plus ça change...

It seems you can't trust anybody - and never could. A four-year University study has concluded that the stories surrounding Glastonbury Abbey - of King Arthur and the Round Table and even of Jesus being brought there by his great-uncle, Joseph of Arimathea - are not only myths, but a matter of deliberate deceit by 12th century monks who needed money to restore the abbey after a devastating fire and who simply made them up to attract pilgrims there.  It may well be that we shall have to re-write "Jerusalem"!

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