Talk:Tintagel

Tristan and Iseult

I think a mentioning of Tintagel as a setting in the story of Tristan and Iseult should be mentioned somehow in the article. JanderVK Tristan is now included (works by Swinburne and Hardy)--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 09:43, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Tristan is treated in more detail under Tintagel Castle.----Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 15:50, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Day-trip from, say, India?

The phrase "The village has, in recent times, become attractive to tourists and day-trippers from many parts of the world" cries out for revision, as there are not many parts of the world from which Tintagel can be made a day-trip, attractive or otherwise. --Haruo (talk) 19:57, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

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The alleged Cornish etymology for Tintagel cited in the article is spurious.

I will quote from the journal article "Topographical Notes: III. Rosnat, Rostat, and the Early Irish Church", by Charles Thomas (Ériu, Vol. 22 (1971), pp. 100-106).

"Attempts to explain the first element as Co. din-, 'stronghold, large fortress, cliff-fort', lack force when it is realised that all the other numerous Cornish place-names with this prefix, not a few of which are recorded before 1145, have retained their initial d throughout. Nor does the second element readily suggest any known Cornish word, or find any local parallels.

Henry Jenner put forward an ingenious idea, on the quite reasonable premise 'Tintagel' originate in a Norman-French milieu, comparing it with '...a rock called Tente d'Agel, or Tente d'Ageau in the Island of Sark [Channel Isles] which is locally said to mean "the Castle of the Devil"."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/30007604?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

As it happens, this site actually does exist on Sark Island, and it is known today as Tintageu.

http://www.geograph.org.gg/photo/1736

As for a purported Cornish etymology for the suffix "tagel" meaning "constriction", I find no evidence for this.

The Cornish word "tagel" means "wattle" (fleshy appendage).

http://www.cornishdictionary.org.uk/browse?field_word_value=tagel&=Apply

The closely related Welsh word "tagell" likewise means "wattle", or "gill" (of a fish), or "double-chin".

These words do not signify a constriction at all, but rather a flabby fold of flesh.

Jacob D (talk) 10:11, 22 November 2018 (UTC)Jacob D

Would really make use of some general view of Trevena newer than 1989

Possibly an aerial picture. SNAAAAKE!! (talk) 06:47, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

The added picture has a short distance of Fore Street in the foreground, Vicarage Hill on the left and the beginning of Atlantic Road until it bends round to the right.--Johnsoniensis (talk) 07:16, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

The road between Vicarage Hill and Castle Hill is apparently Fore Street, not Atlantic Road which is beyond this picture and ends at the Castle Hotel.--Johnsoniensis (talk) 18:34, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

John Mappin

Is this really encyclopaedic information?--Johnsoniensis (talk) 09:23, 20 September 2020 (UTC)