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LYONNESSE, LYONESSE, LEONNOYS

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 174 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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LYONNESSE, LYONESSE, LEONNOYS

LYONNESSE, LYONESSE, LEONNOYS Or LEONAIS, a legendary See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country off the See also:

south See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of See also:

CORNWALL

Cornwall, See also:

England. Lyonnesse is the See also:

SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of many incidents in the Arthurian romances, and especially in the romances of Tristram and Iseult. It also plays an important See also:

PART

part in purely Cornish tradition and See also:

FOLKLORE

folklore. See also:

Early See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF

chronicles, such as the Chronicon e chronicis of See also:

Florence of See also:

Worcester, who died in 1118, described minutely and without a See also:

SUGGESTION

suggestion of disbelief the flourishing See also:

state of Lyonnesse, and its sudden disappearance beneath the See also:

sea. The See also:

LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend may be a greatly exaggerated version of some actual subsidence of inhabited See also:

LAND

land. There is also a very See also:

ancient See also:

LOCAL

local tradition, apparently See also:

INDEPENDENT

independent of the See also:

story of Lyonnesse, that the Scilly Islands formed part of the Cornish mainland within See also:

HISTORICAL

historical times. See Florentii Wigorniensis monachi Chronicon ex chronicis, &c., ed. B. See also:

Thorpe (See also:

LONDON

London, 1848-1849).

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