The Myths of Glastonbury Abbey Shown to Be Just Myths

The beloved myths about Glastonbury Abbey, one of the most religious and romantic sites in England, have officially been debunked by a team of 31 experts led by a Professor of Archeology from the University of Reading.

The feet, made immortal in William Blake’s poem Jerusalem, never walked there; the oldest church built by the disciples of Christ in England was not built there; Joseph of Arimathea’s walking stick doesn’t flower miraculously every Christmas even after 2,000 years. And in fact, it turns out the link to King Arthur and his queen, Guinevere, is false also – invented like the others by the 12th-century monks residing at the Abbey who were faced with a financial crisis after a disastrous fire. 

Additionally, the team led by Professor Roberta Gilchrist found that generations of their academic predecessors who were working at the Abbey had been so beguiled by the legends they either repressed or purposely misinterpreted evidence when it did not fit.