Editing Tintagel (section)

==Arthurian legend==
[[File:King-Arthur's-Castle-q75-1759x1228.jpg|thumb|''King Arthur's Castle'' (artist unknown, c. 1910); below the castle is Tintagel Haven with the equipment for loading slate.]]

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As described in Geoffrey's popular ''Historia'', [[Gorlois]], Duke of Cornwall, put his wife [[Igraine]] in ''Tintagol'' while he was at war (''posuit eam in oppido Tintagol in littore maris'': "he put her in the ''[[oppidum]]'' Tintagol on the shore of the sea"). [[Merlin]] disguised [[Uther Pendragon]] as Gorlois so that Uther could enter Tintagel and impregnate Igraine while pretending to be Gorlois; Uther and Igraine's child was [[King Arthur]]. This motif became the standard origin story of Arthur in subsequent medieval chronicles and chivalric romances. In modern era, the association of Tintagel with Arthur's birthplace was popularised by [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] in ''[[Idylls of the King]].''

Some events of the [[Tristan and Iseult]] legend are also set at Tintagel. Modern works such as [[Algernon Charles Swinburne]]'s ''[[Tristram of Lyonesse]]'' and [[Thomas Hardy]]'s ''[[The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall|The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse]]'' perpetuated that association.

Tourists can visit [[King Arthur's Great Halls]] at Trevena which is a substantial building of the early 1930s. The [[Artognou stone]], which was discovered in 1998, has added to the legend, although historians do not believe the inscription refers to King Arthur.