{"id":126687,"date":"2024-11-17T00:05:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T17:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=126687"},"modified":"2024-11-17T00:05:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T17:05:05","slug":"king-arthur-left-an-ancient-trail-across-britain-experts-say-it-offers-clues-about-the-truth-behind-the-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=126687","title":{"rendered":"King Arthur left an ancient trail across Britain. Experts say it offers clues about the truth behind the myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/editor-note\/instances\/cm3g61u260001356mhandktoe@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"editor-note\" class=\"editor-note vossi-editor-note inline-placeholder \" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n    <em>Editor\u2019s note: Sign up for <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/newsletters\/travel?source=nl-acq_article\"><em>Unlocking the World, CNN Travel\u2019s weekly newsletter<\/em><\/a><em>. Get news about destinations, plus the latest in aviation, food and drink, and where to stay.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\"\/><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm39355y1000s26p46kvcd91s@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            He\u2019s the mythical Celtic warlord who held out against the Anglo Saxon invasion of what would come to be called England. His right-hand man was a wizard, he was handed his famous sword by a deity, and he was a romantic \u2014 and chivalrous \u2014 hero.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw0003356ml0ljymty@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Oh, and he isn\u2019t dead. He\u2019s merely asleep, and will rise again when the time is right to expel the invaders and turn Britain back into a Celtic land.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw0004356mdrwuw3ig@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            He is, of course, King Arthur, a figure so imbued with beauty and potential that even across the pond, JFK\u2019s presidency was referred to as Camelot \u2014 Arthur\u2019s mythical court. But was there a real man behind the myth? Or is he just our platonic ideal of a hero \u2014 a respectful king, in today\u2019s parlance?\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw0005356m6r4gldmm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Today, Arthur\u2019s supposed exploits have left behind a tourist trail across the UK and beyond, with scores of sites claiming connections to his myth.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3hb7bcb00073b6mhg342bq9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            It\u2019s nothing new. For centuries, the legend of Arthur has fascinated much of Europe.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw0006356murkx6yc4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            He was supposedly the leader of a tribe of Celts \u2014 indigenous Britons \u2014 when the Saxons invaded Britain in the fifth century.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw0007356m5wqxtnhz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The Saxons \u2014 people from modern-day Scandinavia, Germany and France \u2014 eventually colonized Britain, but there were fierce pockets of resistance from the Celts, especially in the far west of the country. Wales and Cornwall \u2014 England\u2019s southwesternmost county \u2013 were the last to fall. The Celtic languages that all Britons originally spoke held out here, while elsewhere people began to speak what would become English.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw0008356mngt0spdw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Arthur was, according to tradition, a leader resisting to the end against the Saxon colonizers. Fittingly, both Cornwall and Wales (among other places) claim him. Today, he is best associated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.english-heritage.org.uk\/visit\/places\/tintagel-castle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tintagel Castle<\/a>, where remains of a settlement dating back to the fifth century perch strikingly on an islet off the wild coast of Cornwall. Supposedly, Arthur was conceived here.\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/factbox\/instances\/cm3hb94ro00013b6m90h8o7w7@published\" data-component-name=\"factbox\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" class=\"factbox_inline-small factbox_inline-small__\">\n<h3 class=\"factbox_inline-small__title\" data-editable=\"title\">\n    ON THE TRAIL OF KING ARTHUR<br \/>\n  <\/h3>\n<ul data-editable=\"items\" class=\"factbox_inline-small__items factbox_inline-small__items--ul\">\n<li data-editable=\"items.0.text\" class=\"factbox_inline-small__item inline-placeholder\">Tintagel Castle, Cornwall<\/li>\n<li data-editable=\"items.1.text\" class=\"factbox_inline-small__item inline-placeholder\">Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset<\/li>\n<li data-editable=\"items.2.text\" class=\"factbox_inline-small__item inline-placeholder\">Caerleon Castle, Wales<\/li>\n<li data-editable=\"items.3.text\" class=\"factbox_inline-small__item inline-placeholder\">Dozmary Pool, Cornwall<\/li>\n<li data-editable=\"items.4.text\" class=\"factbox_inline-small__item inline-placeholder\">Yr Wyddfa, Wales<\/li>\n<li data-editable=\"items.5.text\" class=\"factbox_inline-small__item inline-placeholder\">Cadbury Castle, Somerset<\/li>\n<li data-editable=\"items.6.text\" class=\"factbox_inline-small__item inline-placeholder\">Slaughterbridge, Cornwall<\/li>\n<li data-editable=\"items.7.text\" class=\"factbox_inline-small__item inline-placeholder\">Bardsey Island, Wales<\/li>\n<li data-editable=\"items.8.text\" class=\"factbox_inline-small__item inline-placeholder\">Winchester Castle, Hampshire<\/li>\n<li data-editable=\"items.9.text\" class=\"factbox_inline-small__item inline-placeholder\">Arthur\u2019s Seat, Edinburgh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw0009356mem5z78u1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            But the myth of Arthur is also bound intrinsically with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltrust.org.uk\/visit\/somerset\/glastonbury-tor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glastonbury Tor<\/a> (a hill in Somerset where Merlin, his magician, is said to be asleep, waiting to return), <a href=\"https:\/\/coflein.gov.uk\/en\/site\/307940\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Caerleon Castle<\/a> in Wales (this was said to where Arthur had his court, Camelot), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitsomerset.co.uk\/discover-somerset\/inspiration\/history-and-heritage\/cadbury-castle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Cadbury<\/a> in Somerset, where archaeologists in the 1970s thought they\u2019d located Camelot.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw000a356mldwqvywq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In Wales alone, Arthur is meant to have killed a giant on Yr Wyddfa (Mount Snowdon) and a fearsome beast in Llyn Barfog lake, while Merlin is said to be buried both on Bardsey Island, off the north coast, and in a cliff at Nevern. Mind you, Arthur is also rumored to be sleeping in that cliffside \u2014 as well as buried at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glastonburyabbey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glastonbury Abbey<\/a>, Baschurch in Shropshire, and Mynydd y Gaer, a mountain in Wales. Even for a mythical figure, he got around.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw000b356m3ms62yjx@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            There\u2019s also Arthur\u2019s Seat in Edinburgh \u2014 the names of Arthur and Merlin are \u201cright at the top of the list\u201d of historical figures who\u2019ve loaned their names to places, according to Mark Stoyle, professor of early modern history at the UK\u2019s University of Southampton. Even the French claim a link with him, with some arguing that he was from Brittany \u2014 another Celtic part of Europe. The study of his story is, apparently, on the national school curriculum in France.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw000c356mmyg8urgg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            So why is everyone so fascinated with this man \u2014 and did he even exist?\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cm3ejqi5n00012e6awlw7scpk@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"GettyImages-517403474.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.8265\" data-original-height=\"1653\" data-original-width=\"2000\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-517403474.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"1653\" width=\"2000\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-517403474.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1653\" width=\"2000\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-517403474.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1653\" width=\"2000\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-517403474.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1653\" width=\"2000\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-517403474.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-517403474.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"Arthur was said to have been handed his sword, Excalibur, by the mysterious deity, the Lady of the Lake.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1653\" width=\"2000\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw000e356mqker88dl@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            For Stoyle, it\u2019s likely that the myth of Arthur has at least its roots in fact.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw000f356mydfvypil@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cNobody knows for sure,\u201d he says. \u201cHistorians are so divided on it.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw000g356m9r2hzivg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            He says that an increasing number of archaeologists and historians believe that Arthur is an amalgamation of various historical characters, rather than an actual figure himself \u2014although plenty still believe that Arthur himself existed.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw000h356motx8o1nb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Stoyle himself is in the former camp.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw000i356mfez1a46c@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWhen the Roman empire fell, the Anglo Saxons took over in the east of England and then moved to the west. There was fierce resistance to them which lasted a long time, and it\u2019s easy to believe that there was one or more local chieftains who opposed them, and that those stories are perhaps the germ for the story of Arthur,\u201d he says.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw000j356mlkbcw695@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cMy gut feeling is that there has to be someone extraordinary behind this [these stories] but we have so little hard evidence, and some things [which he is said to have done] he definitely couldn\u2019t do.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw000k356mi7iin425@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            That would be things like pulling a sword out of a rock in which it was lodged (this marked him out as the rightful king), or getting his most famous sword, Excalibur, handed to him by \u201cthe lady of the lake,\u201d a kind of water deity (Cornish people swear this happened at Dozmary Pool on Bodmin Moor). Excalibur has, of course, become so rooted in our global consciousness that it was not only the subject of the 1963 Disney film \u201cThe Sword in the Stone\u201d but also is the name of a medieval-themed resort in Las Vegas.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw000l356m5v8g06kr@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Whoever inspired these stories is almost a moot point for Stoyle. \u201cIn a way, everybody has their own Arthur \u2014 perceptions about who we want him to have been,\u201d he says.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw000m356mztylzw9a@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Perhaps he\u2019s the chivalrous knight who spent more time instilling good behavior at Camelot than killing his enemies. This is the Arthur that went viral in the medieval period, when chivalry was all the rage.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw000n356myc54irg8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Perhaps he\u2019s the romantic hero, the king who fought for love when his wife Guinevere ran off with his most trusted confidant, Lancelot. That\u2019s the erotic Arthur beloved by the pre-Raphaelite artists and poets who obsessed over him in the 1800s. This Arthur was played by Clive Owen in the 2004 film, \u201cKing Arthur,\u201d alongside Keira Knightley as Guinevere.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3hafvsw00023b6mfokwee6z@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Perhaps he\u2019s the mystic \u2014 the proto-New Age king who was led to victory by his trusted magician Merlin. Modern-day mystics swarm to Glastonbury to soak up his magic there.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw000p356msjqdy56b@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Or maybe he\u2019s supernatural \u2014 a man who never really died, but lies sleeping, ready to return when his country needs him. This Arthur will kick the Saxon colonizers out and return Britain to its native Celtic culture. That\u2019s the guy who, says Stoyle, the Welsh and Cornish \u201cabsolutely believed\u201d in for centuries.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw000q356m5vzqcow9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            As for Merlin, Stoyle says that most leaders of that age would have been accompanied by a sage. Merlin is the model in popular culture for the likes of Gandalf and Dumbledore, he says.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw000s356m9uv7c4e9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In the medieval period, Arthur\u2019s story \u2014 or, more accurately, his myth \u2014 went viral after a writer called Geoffrey of Monmouth described King Arthur in his book, \u201cHistoria Regum Britanniae,\u201d or \u201cA history of Britain\u2019s kings,\u201d around 1136 CE.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw000t356mnr3qkckq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Geoffrey \u2014 thought to have been a monk \u2014 wrote that Arthur was conceived at Tintagel, and held court at Camelot \u2014 AKA Caerleon in southeast Wales, around 150 miles northeast of Tintagel.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw000u356m2aq72ukm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            According to Geoffrey, Arthur died fighting the forces of his wayward son Mordred at the battle of Camlann at Cornwall\u2019s \u201cRiver Camblan\u201d \u2014 often interpreted as the River Camel, which coincidentally runs through a place called Slaughterbridge. He was buried on the island of Avalon \u2014 not located by Geoffrey, though the medieval monks of Glastonbury Abbey were quick to equate themselves with Avalon, not least because Arthur pilgrims were cash-rich visitors.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw000w356mhg7s6j31@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Of course, medieval history writers were fast and loose with the facts. But it seems that archaeology can provide some pointers.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw000x356m1b0ti8t6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Tintagel Castle is one of the most romantic sites connected with Arthur: an atmospheric ruined castle clinging to the cliffside of a small island, dangling just off the coast of the north Cornish coast.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw000y356mkipqm9q1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            So spectacular is its location that it\u2019s the second most visited site for English Heritage, the charity that manages it, after Stonehenge. In 2023, 334,195 visitors made their way down from the cliffs at Tintagel village, into a valley, and up along another cliff to a suspension bridge.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw000z356mlncrpyq0@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The bridge \u2014 built in 2019 \u2014 leads visitors across an abyss, the Atlantic Ocean thrashing below, and onto the islet, where they walk straight into a ruined medieval dining hall on the side of the precipitous cliff.\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cm3ejqvmz00052e6ay6pyt7mw@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"GettyImages-1332308099.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.6665\" data-original-height=\"1333\" data-original-width=\"2000\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-1332308099.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"1333\" width=\"2000\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-1332308099.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1333\" width=\"2000\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-1332308099.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1333\" width=\"2000\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-1332308099.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1333\" width=\"2000\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-1332308099.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-1332308099.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"Tintagel -- where Arthur is said to have been conceived -- is the second most popular site in England for English Heritage, second only to Stonehenge.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1333\" width=\"2000\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw0010356mu0n04jy3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Arthur, so the legend goes, was conceived here \u2013 though of course not in that dining hall. In fact, the atmospheric medieval ruins we see today were built expressly to tap into the Arthurian myth, says Win Scutt, senior properties curator at English Heritage.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw0011356me5618bmv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The castle was built by Earl Richard, the 13th-century duke of Cornwall \u2014 a role today held by Prince William.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw0012356mut3xpo9o@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cEarl Richard wanted to associate himself with the Arthurian story \u2014 that\u2019s why he bought the land and built the castle,\u201d says Scutt. \u201cThis was a feasting place to basically say he was the new Arthur.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw0013356mh3nyb0py@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Further up on the clifftop, however, are remains that date back to the (supposed) Arthurian period.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw0014356mnscm0lr9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Across the top of the headland spread the remains of a settlement from the fifth to the seventh century \u2014 the height of the \u201cDark Ages,\u201d the post-Roman period in Europe when trading and transport routes broke down, and for which there is little written evidence.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw0015356meuenw1wi@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Yet the archaeological evidence at Tintagel is compelling.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3h9qxg50001356m95n3z6mm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            It shows that the site was home to an important settlement during the period, with evidence of long-distance trading: wine from Greece, serving bowls from Turkey, and Tunisian ceramics. There is more pottery from the eastern Mediterranean at Tintagel than from all other sites from the same era in Britain \u2014 put together.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw0016356m6j3hzxe2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWe don\u2019t have a settlement in southern Britain as large as Tintagel \u2014 not even London,\u201d says Scutt. There are traces of around 100 buildings scattered over the headland.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw0017356me72k26ur@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            There\u2019s also evidence of connections with early Christian culture in the eastern Mediterranean.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw0018356mipl55jxj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cSeven hundred years before the [medieval] castle there was a place of power there,\u201d says Scutt, adding that there are few signs of military defenses, implying that it was a \u201chigh status site \u2014 more of a statement.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw0019356mezspw98f@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIt\u2019s not necessarily royal, but probably is,\u201d he adds. \u201cCornwall was an independent kingdom in the early medieval period.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw001a356mjpo1o51o@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Then there\u2019s the \u201cArtognou stone,\u201d discovered onsite in 1998. A sixth-century carved stone, it mentions the name Artognou, which some people have connected to Arthur \u2014 though other scholars have dismissed this idea.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw001b356mt4x5qk1s@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Scutt says that he and his colleagues have shied away in the past from linking Tintagel with Arthur too explicitly. Yet he is curious why Geoffrey of Monmouth chose it as Arthur\u2019s place of conception.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw001c356mcfqln1jz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWhere did he pick up this story? Oral history? Writing? Or did the people of Tintagel claim to have origins with Arthur? You can\u2019t extricate the myth from the history,\u201d he says. \u201cMaybe he was aware there had been an important place.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw001d356m5wrf3ppp@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThat [Geoffrey] connects the birth of Arthur with Tintagel can\u2019t be a coincidence \u2013 there\u2019s something going on there.\u201d But, Scutt hastens to add, \u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean [Arthur] existed. As an archaeologist, I never trust historical records. We always question the documentary record \u2014 especially if it\u2019s from 500 years later.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cm3ejr2ff00072e6as67jis3n@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"GettyImages-464437557.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"1\" data-original-height=\"2000\" data-original-width=\"2000\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-464437557.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"2000\" width=\"2000\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-464437557.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"2000\" width=\"2000\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-464437557.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"2000\" width=\"2000\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-464437557.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"2000\" width=\"2000\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-464437557.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-464437557.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"Arthur and his entourage were known as the 'knights of the round table' -- supposedly because sat round one big table together.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"2000\" width=\"2000\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw001e356mmr8dxc4h@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            One person who isn\u2019t convinced by Geoffrey\u2019s account is Nicholas J. Higham, professor emeritus at the University of Manchester, who calls the text \u201ca complete spoof\u2026 a faux history which lionizes the Britons and downgrades the English as pagan incomers who aren\u2019t very nice.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw001f356m1jiruxpr@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Higham likens Geoffrey\u2019s text to the epic \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d saga by J.R.R. Tolkien \u2014 who, incidentally, was an Arthurian scholar.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw001g356mdyxuq7fv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cYou see him plucking stuff off [other source materials] and writing it into his own narrative,\u201d he says. Those sources included a ninth-century document called \u201cThe History of the Britons\u201d which \u201crewrote\u201d the history of the Roman occupation of Britain to laud the indigenous Britons, and a 540 CE Latin document in the manner of an \u201cOld Testament prophet\u201d which suggests that the Britons were subdued because \u201cthey have gone against god, and they need to repent and return to the lord.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw001h356mipmg0z48@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            This document \u2014 by a writer called Gildas \u2014 \u201cbuilds up the figures of resistance [to the Romans],\u201d says Higham, One of these figures in the text is Arthur. He is depicted as an almost Christ-like figure, the battle leader of the Britons, winning 12 battles \u2014 a number significant to Christians.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw001i356m46oarvwf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Old Welsh poetry of the eight to 11th century also mention Arthur, though Higham says that the texts we have today are medieval copies that were \u201cradically modernized\u201d and therefore untrustworthy.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw001j356mrs0go53o@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            There\u2019s also a roundabout reference to Arthur in a sixth century poem, damning another figure as, \u201cHe was not an Arthur.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw001k356m8fyx9flx@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cYou can make of that what you will,\u201d says Higham, who calls himself an \u201cArthur skeptic.\u201d \u201cYou can\u2019t accept the word of an early ninth-century writer who you know is attempting to rewrite the past for present propagandist purposes.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cm3ejr6xk00092e6a1d4slk9d@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"GettyImages-1560278518.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.6825\" data-original-height=\"1365\" data-original-width=\"2000\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-1560278518.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"1365\" width=\"2000\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-1560278518.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1365\" width=\"2000\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-1560278518.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1365\" width=\"2000\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-1560278518.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1365\" width=\"2000\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-1560278518.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-1560278518.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"Henry VIII is seen as the quintessential English king. In fact, he played up his Welsh roots, and his father claimed to be a descendant of the Celt, Arthur.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1365\" width=\"2000\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw001m356msheag1fn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Whatever the truth, the influence of Arthur has echoed down through the centuries.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw001n356mtwj4dy4z@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In 1485, England\u2019s King Henry VII seized power from Richard III by landing in Wales from his exile in Brittany (he had first tried to land in Cornwall), billing himself as \u201cArthur\u2019s heir,\u201d says Stoyle. \u201cThe prophecies that Arthur would come again encouraged the Welsh to join him, and his army snowballed.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw001o356m7rfj7jcu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Once he\u2019d grabbed the throne, he emphasized his Welshness, even calling his first son \u2013 the Prince of Wales \u2014 Arthur. Henry\u2019s reign was, says Stoyle, a \u201cglorious Welsh renaissance,\u201d and Arthur \u2014 who was sent to the English town of Ludlow to govern as a young man \u2014 would have been crowned king of England had he not died early.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3h9xn170003356m58g8zj6v@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Instead, his younger brother took power \u2014 one Henry VIII. And although we think of Henry as the quintessential Englishman, Stoyle says he \u201cemphasized his connection with Wales,\u201d celebrating St. David\u2019s Day in court and having a retinue of Welsh staff. He and his daughter, Elizabeth I, spoke both Welsh and Cornish. \u201cThe Tudors were really keen to say we are kings of England but also Wales and Cornwall,\u201d says Stoyle. The later Stuart dynasty also played up links with Arthur, he says.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw001p356m7i8csfih@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIt really shows Arthur mattered.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw001q356mzqrqahnr@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Whatever the truth, those who love Arthur \u2014 the man, the myth, or the many men whose stories might have created the myth \u2014 have plenty of places to visit.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw001r356mpp8uziu7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            And the wonderful thing about the many Arthurs is that he can also tell us about ourselves.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw001s356mq7yjlvio@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIn a way, everybody has their own Arthur,\u201d says Stoyle. \u201cThere are all kinds of Arthurs. At Glastonbury it\u2019s very New Age-y. At Tintagel it\u2019s more grim and forbidding, he\u2019s more like a warrior. Most people think of him in a more romantic way. Different people gravitate to different places in search of \u2018their\u2019 Arthur.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw001t356mdabn4gie@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Scutt says that the legends are important as the truth \u2014 whatever that is.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw001u356mcg8lq79w@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe legend is important \u2014 that\u2019s our identity,\u201d he says. \u201cSome stories that we tell about our own families might not be very truthful but we remember them as part of us.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw001v356m8s107lgn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cAs a child I used to write songs to do with the Arthur story and even called my bicycle Arthur.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3935psw001w356m7kddt16j@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cDo I want him to exist? I kind of do. 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