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colouring of probability to the subsequent searcb and dls- 

 covery. The Chronide of Tysilio is supposed to have been 

 compiled about A.D. 1000, and GeofFrey dled several years 

 before the year 1170, when, according to Giraldus Cam- 

 brensls, the discovery was made. It was not, however, 

 a certain and universally admitted fact that Arthur had 

 been buried at Glastonbury, for among the Cymi'i the 

 precise locallty was still regarded as a secret. Thus the 

 ancient British Triad : 



" Bedd i March, bedd i Gwythur, 



Bedd i Gwgawn Gleddfrudd, 



Anoeth bydd bedd i Arthur." 



" Here ia the grave of March (ap Meirchion), 

 Here is the grave of Gwythyr (ap Greidiol), 

 Here is the grave of Gwgawn Gleddfrudd, 

 But unknown ia the grave of Arthur." 

 Looking at the question, a priori, there is every proba- 

 bility that King Arthur, after having received his mortal 

 wound at Camlan, in Cornwall, should desire to avail him- 

 self of the medical skill which was found in those days in 

 great monasteries, and at Glastonbury in particular, and if 

 he should die to be interred near the shrine which was at 

 the same time the most famous and the most sacred in his 

 time. Arthur was not like his Saxon enemies — a pagan. 

 Imbued, probably, with the culture which Eoman civiliza- 

 tion had introduced, he had superadded the holy influenae 

 of the Christian fiiith, and to him nothing could be more 

 to be desired than to rest near the consecrated walls and 

 within sound of the sacred Service of prayer as ofFered up 

 by the holy men of the Abbey of Avallon. The mode of 

 transit which traditlon describes, namely by water along the 

 north coast of Devon and Somerset and into the lake or 



