Lyonesse

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Lyonesse is a legendary land in British mythology .

location

It is often equated with Leonais in Brittany or Lothian in Scotland (old French: Loenois). In the Cornish folk are talking about a country that supposedly once over the Mount's Bay stretched and to the south and west to Land's End to today's Isles of Scilly expanded.

In 1997, representatives of the Russian Institute for Meta-History searched for Atlantis on the opposite, i.e. south-western, side of the Isles of Scilly.

Flood disaster

Lyonesse is also considered the home of the knight Tristan . According to legend, the land was devoured by the sea sometime in the 5th century . A man named Trevilian is said to have been one of the few survivors of the downfall . This is said to have climbed a white horse and ridden away just before the tide. With great difficulty he reached a cave near Marazion and observed the catastrophe.

The Seven Stones reef off Land's End is said to mark the place where one of the submerged cities, the City of Lions, was once located. Fishermen often reported pulling pieces of masonry and panes of glass in their nets to the surface. In rough weather you can even hear the church bells of Lyonesse ringing underwater.

It is considered relatively unlikely that a land called Lyonesse has sunk into the sea at this point. However, there were various subsidence of land below sea level during the Middle Ages.

Reception of the Lyonesse myth

The fantasy author Jack Vance created a monument to the legendary island in his Lyonesse trilogy .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Russians seek Atlantis off Cornwall . BBC , December 29, 1997