"The name of Glastonbury carries the imagination far
back into the dim past. The few scattered and grass-grown ruins, which now alone
remain of the once vast pile of buildings, mark the
site of one of the most renowned sanctuaries of the
Christian world. The history of this sacred spot goes
back to days before the age of written records, for it
is founded upon legends which connect it even with
some of the first disciples of our Lord Himself. The
story of the place is told in song and prose, in fact and
fiction, in the legends and in the chronicles, which
relate the beginnings of the English people."
Extract from "The Greater Abbeys of England" (Open Library).
