Talk:Turf maze

The reason I created a separate Troy Town page was because this page was already quite long and was becoming unwieldy. The extra information on the Troy Town page is specific to mazes of that name (as is the information on the separate Mizmaze and Julian's Bower pages). All three link back to this page so that people can read more on the subject in general should they wish to do so. SiGarb | Talk 14:15, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

The earliest labyrinth

The page says the earliest known use of the classical labyrinth pattern in the British Isles is on the Hollywood Stone, but i know it's the labyrinth of Tintagel. Isn't it? PPong — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.252.130.190 (talk) 15:49, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

Quaint-mazes

Thus hyphened in some early editions of Shakespeare's plays. The Midsummer Night passage relates to a love-spat between Oberon, King of the fairies,and Titania, Queen. Sexual imagery is clear from words such as wanton, nine-men's morris (then played with upright pegs), and tred. The play was performed before (and to amuse and celebrate)the union between Queen Elizabeth and Robert Dudley. Oberon is in German 'bear', the Dudley crest. 'Queynte' or 'queinte' is a term used by Chaucer in the Miller's Tale (Canterbury Tales) to denote the female pudenda: "Full prively he caught her by the queinte." And the medieval unicursal labyrinth was used by women seeking fertility, which walking its length early in the morning alone, was believed to promote. There is little doubt that the 'quaint' in 'quaint-maze' was NOT an adjective, but describes a particular circular shaped maze resembling a queynte. Regardless that the term has been forgotten and has not made it to the Oxford English Dictionary.122.57.152.168 (talk) 22:41, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

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Maze or labyinth?

Whilst I'm sure that some examples of a turf maze must have been built somewhere, and there are any number of hedge mazes, I'm struggling to think of any example of such a turf maze, because all the turf ones are labyrinths, rather than mazes. Likewise tile patterns in medieval churches etc. - they're labyrinths, not mazes, and there are both technical and metaphysical reasons as to why.

This article should be at turf labyrinth instead. Andy Dingley (talk) 23:14, 23 March 2019 (UTC)