Is it true and has the drum been heard?
2007-07-13 08:07:54 · 8 answers · asked by Scouse 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Drake's Drum is a drum once owned by Sir Francis Drake. The drum was with Drake when he circumnavigated the world and when he died of dysentery off Panama in 1596. The worn drum, with Drake's coat of arms painted on one side, is currently located in the Drake, Naval and West Country Folk Museum at Buckland Abbey in Buckland Monachorum near Yelverton, Devon, England, Drake's former home and now a site owned by the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty.
A legend surrounds Drake's Drum: it is claimed that it can be heard at times when England is at war or significant national event takes place. For example, some said they heard the drum when Britain's greatest naval hero, Admiral Lord Nelson, was made a freeman of Plymouth. The most recent occasions on which the drum roll was said to have been heard were during the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940, and the Falklands War in 1982.
2007-07-13 23:06:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the theory is that Drakes' Drum will play loudly enough to wake King Arthur from his enchanted sleep.
2007-07-13 15:11:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's the saying, it should be banging away like merry hell now we have been invaded by the migrants. But I don't think even King Arthur would be able to repel them, they are taking the country over and we are sleep walking while the do it. Wake for goodness sake UK.
2007-07-13 15:16:46 · answer #3 · answered by tucksie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is a stry of 2 boys playing in a field wen 1 boy found a drum...he started playing it and disappeared..the nxt day the other boy was found fear stricken and beat up....he had heard the drums again and never seen again....
2007-07-13 15:18:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i havent heard that before but i have heard somthing like it.Here it is:when England is in danger King arthur will awake from his sleep and fight for england
2007-07-13 15:22:04 · answer #5 · answered by john 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you have been watching way to much gargoyles but that legend is true but it has never been heared yet and if he did ever rise alvon would rise with him
2007-07-13 20:15:38 · answer #6 · answered by whitetiger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it has, just like ones beating heart.
2007-07-13 15:18:31 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Captain are thou sleeping there below
2007-07-13 16:24:18 · answer #8 · answered by David R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋