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Cerwyd C
Cerwyd May 20, 2006 23:30:52

Hello, Rhiannon.

Please forgive me for contacting yo this way, but I'm new here and could not figure out how to contact you directly.

You once posted the following on King Arthur's Round Table in Cumbria:

<In 1538, Leland (who was the king's antiquary - what a position) wrote:
"It is of sum caullid the Round Table, and of sum, Arture's Castel."

In 1724 Stukeley said "The site is used to this day for a country rendez-vous, either for sports or for military exercises, shooting with bows, etc."

The Cumberland historian Hutchinson was told by villagers in 1773 that the place was an ancient tilting yard where jousts had once been held. He said wrestling matches had taken place there within living memory.

info in Marjorie Rowling's 'Folklore of the Lake District' (1976). >

Do you still have easy access to these sources? And, if so, could you please write me at my regular email address ASAP with the more complete quotes from the sources on the henge at Eamont? I would like to insert this material into the galley proofs of a book I have due out around Christmas.

Thank you and very best wishes,

August Hunt
[email protected]

R Rhiannon
Rhiannon May 22, 2006 07:27:29
Replying to Cerwyd

Sadly, no I don't still have the book - I got it through interlibrary loans. I can imagine it wouldn't have had any more to the quote than what I've already written? Sadly these local folklore books are often not very well referenced and you can't tell where the author found the quote originally (sometimes it's just from the last local folklore book, clearly).

But I can tell you that the Leland quote would have come from his 'Itinerary' of travels around Britain. You just need the right volume. It's not online, but you ought to be able to order it from the library or buy one from (for example) here:
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&an=leland&y=0&tn=itinerary&x=0&sortby=3

Maybe someone more familiar with Cumbria might be able to guess the other sources. It would be cheap enough to buy a copy of Rowling's book, but I'm not sure it would get you anywhere.
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&an=rowling&y=0&kn=folklore+cumbria&x=0&sortby=3

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