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Fortified For Faithfulness (by our Castle Poet Tony Walton)
Fortified For Faithfulness (Poem by Knucklas Castle Poet, Tony Walton) Written for the launch of the Knucklas Castle Community Land Project On the green-mantled hill, no stone still stands of this lonely Border outpost: at most turfed stumps and scattered broken teeth. Time has swallowed Knucklas Castle. Mortimer’s lands are … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
Guinevere – a Knucklas Princess but was she ever ‘the Flower Bride’?
Guinevere’s (Gwenhwyfar) first appears in the Welsh *Mabinogion called Culhwch and Olwen (before 1100) In Welsh tradition, her father is called Gogrvan or Ocvran King of Knucklas. Ref: *Mabynnogyon is in the Red book of Hergest
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