It is less thrilling than yesterday's weather forecast, yet Mr Gillmeister's opinions become ever more fanciful, until he finds himself maintaining that Count Voss's trip to the green courts of the British Isles resembled the quest of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's itinerant knight.
In the grounds of the abbey is a marker at the spot where King Harold was supposedly killed by an arrow in his eye, or ridden down by a Norman knight, depending on your interpretation of the Bayeux Tapestry.