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)