The Death of Guinevere

There were three shepherds up on Tan Hill one night with their sheep when they saw a funeral cortège coming towards them. Black horses, a coffin with a golden coronet, and, at before it, a knight with his head bowed in mourning. No living cortège this, since all of it glowed with a faint light that let the shepherds know these were ghosts. The lad ran off, but the two older shepherds took off their hats and bowed their heads as the party went by. When they looked up, it was gone. Was this Sir Lancelot bringing Queen Guinevere’s body back from the nunnery at Amesbury where she died to her burial place at Glastonbury? We will never know …