Lyonesse
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 .
literature
- Geoffrey Ashe: Celts, Druids and King Arthur. Walter Verlag, 1992, ISBN 3-530-02363-9 , 391 pp.
- Beckles Wilson: Lost Lyoness: Evidence, Records and Traditions of England's Atlantis. 1985, ISBN 0-948508-01-9 , 32 pp.
- Jack Vance: Ruler of Lyonesse / The green pearl. Area Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-89996-397-0 , 928 pp.
- Lyonnesse . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 17 : Lord Chamberlain - Mecklenburg . London 1911, p. 174 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
Movie
- The 1st knight with Sean Connery , Richard Gere , ...
Individual evidence
- ^ Russians seek Atlantis off Cornwall . BBC , December 29, 1997