"Watching Loft" at Malmesbury Abbey.
In LOOKING FOR THE KING, J. R. R. Tolkien...
"Watching Loft" at Malmesbury Abbey.
In LOOKING FOR THE KING, J. R. R. Tolkien suggests that the young Americans look for the Spear of Destiny in Malmesbury. He quotes a medieval Latin text saying the Athelstan, grandson of Alfred the Great, once owned the "Spear of Invincibility" and used it to drive the Danes completely out of Britain.
If the Spear were ever at Malmesbury Abbey, it was probably hidden away somewhere during the Dissolution (1530s), when Henry VIII's soldiers confiscated the property and valuables of monasteries all over the British Isles. If you had the financial and the technological means, where would you look for the fabled lance?
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In LOOKING FOR THE KING, J. R. R. Tolkien suggests that the young Americans look for the Spear of Destiny in Malmesbury. He quotes a medieval Latin text saying the Athelstan, grandson of Alfred the Great, once owned the "Spear of Invincibility" and used it to drive the Danes completely out of Britain.
If the Spear were ever at Malmesbury Abbey, it was probably hidden away somewhere during the Dissolution (1530s), when Henry VIII's soldiers confiscated the property and valuables of monasteries all over the British Isles. If you had the financial and the technological means, where would you look for the fabled lance?
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