Note 38 — ROMANCES OF ARTHUR.

“I shall offer a conjecture touching the name of this place, which I will not say is right, but only probable. Tin is the same as Din, Dinas, and Dixeth, deceit; so that Tindixel, turned, for easier pronunciation, to Tintagel, Dindagel, or Daundagel, signifies Castle of Deceit, which name might be aptly given to it from the famous deceit practised here by Uter Pendragon by the help of Merlin’s enchantment.”—Tonkin.

“Mr Hals says this place is called Donecheniv in ‘Domesday Survey.’ Dunechine would mean the fortress of the chasm, corresponding precisely with its situation.”—Davies Gilbert.