The Luck of Edenhall

For over 200 years this famous glass remained in the possession of the Musgrave family of Edenhall, Cumbria (UK). It acquired the curious name ‘The Luck of Edenhall’ due to the story of how it came into the family:
A group of faeries were drinking and making merry at St Cuthbert’s Well in the garden of Edenhall. Some people, attracted by the curious sound, intruded on the faeries revelry. However the faeries took fright and scattered, leaving the cup behind. The last faery to leave shouted out ‘If this cup should break or fall, Farewell the Luck of Edenhall.’ The family very carefully looked after the cup over the following years until in 1926 it was loaned to the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK). There it remains, intact, to this very day. Historians believe the cup to actually be Syrian and date from the 13th century. It is possible it found it’s way to England with a knight returning from the crusades, but no one knows how it came to be at Edenhall.

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