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Updated: June 12, 2025
But Sir Lionel can't wait longer for Cornwall, and, so day-after-to-morrow night my eyes shall look upon only think of it "dark Tintagel by the Cornish sea." That is, we shall see it, Apollo permitting, for motors and men gang aft aglee. This isn't apropos of Apollo's usual behaviour, but of the stories we've been told concerning Dartmoor roads.
Tintagel, Dundagel, or Dundiogl, the Dunecheniv of Domesday, seems certainly to have belonged to Gorlois when Uther was Pendragon or Head-king of Britain; it would have been a cliff-castle such as that on Pentire Head. As years passed the rock probably became more insular, and when the Norman stronghold was built it was connected with the mainland by a drawbridge.
But this stretch of coast is near no popular centre, and, with the exception of Tintagel and Boscastle, it remains neglected. If Padstow or Polzeath, Portquin or Port Isaac, ever become more popular, visitors will flock to these grand cliffs and marvel that they never came here before.
So there I was with Sir Lionel once more; and I wondered if he thought of that night when we rushed through the storm from Tintagel to Clovelly? Soon this also bade fair to be a storm, for the rain began to tumble out of the sky, rather than fall, as if an army of people stood throwing down water by the bucketful.
It appears that he arrived at Tintagel last night, only a little while after Sir Lionel and I had left in the car. He expected to be earlier, but he took cross-country trains which looked promising on time-tables, and missed connection.
She trembled as she spoke; her face to him more beautiful than ever was raised to his with a look of unutterable appeal. "You are not angry, Norman?" "No, I am not angry. Do not speak to me as though I were a tyrant. Angry and with you, Madaline always my best beloved how could that be?" "I knew that you were here," she said. "I saw in a newspaper that you were going to Tintagel for the summer.
So Sir Ganhardine left upon his errand, and sailed for Tintagel in 'The Swan, and the journey did not take him long, for the ship flew through the waters like a real bird, as though she knew she was bound on her master's errand, and that his life depended on her swiftness. Dark it was when Ganhardine arrived, for it was winter-time, when storms rage full violent on that bleak coast.
There he entered by a ship, and with good wind he arrived at Tintagel in Cornwall, and King Mark and all his barons were glad that Tristram was whole again. Then Sir Tristram went to his father King Talloch, and there was made great cheer for him, and wide lands were given him.
I will go at once, before he may come to Tintagel, seeking to do us mischief, for if he falls upon us in this trap we shall pipe to deaf ears." Igerne praised the counsel of him she deemed her lord. The king embraced her by reason of her tenderness, and kissed her as he bade farewell. He departed straightway from the castle, and his familiars with him.
And so they sat together all that afternoon and until the sun began to hang low in the west; after that, they arose and took horse, and rode away together toward Tintagel in great pleasure of companionship.
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