An Excerpt from the Travel Journal of Nigel Fox circa 1925 Entry 19 -- The Dane-Saxon Saga At first Norah looked disappointed when she discovered that my 'gift' was an old book published by the Catholic Apostolic Church in 1899. Her expression gradually brightened as we began to read it together. The book contained much of my father's extensive research into the Abbey legends. Father had established that Glastonbury Abbey was founded by Josephus of Arimathea (son of Joseph) and that the monastery had possessed the most valued of Christian relics. However, all had vanished by the turn of the first millennium. It had been first postulated that the most likely cause of their disappearance would have been the Viking raids at the time of Ethelred 'the Unready'. Women were raped and possessions plundered on a
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