 The name first occurs in Geoffrey of Monmouth's "Historia Regum Britanniae" (c. 1136, in Latin) as "Tintagol", implying pronunciation with a hard [g] sound as in modern English "girl".But in Layamon's "Brut" (MS Cotton Otho C.xi, f. 482), in early Middle English, the name is rendered as "Tintaieol".The letter "i" in this spelling implies a soft consonant like modern English "j"; the second part of the name would be pronounced approximately as "-ageul" would be in modern French.