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Standing Stone / Menhir
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Radio 4 programme Making History.
The Tristan Stone - is it the Tristan who loved Isolde?
Listener's query:"I live in Fowey, Cornwall, and outside of Fowey there is a monolith with the legend 'Here lies Tristan son of King Mark'. Is the Tristan on the stone monolith the Tristan of the Tristan and Iseult story?": Brief summary:The Tristan Stone, near Fowey in Cornwall, is a weathered monolith about 9 feet high like a Neolithic standing stone. It might even be a Neolithic stone, but it has a worn inscription on it: Drustans hic iacet Cunomori filius, which means "Here lies Drustanus, the son of Cunomorus". Continues...
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Posted by phil
16th January 2005ce
Edited 17th January 2005ce
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