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Lyonesse
1.
In the Arthurian legends, a lady besieged by the Red Knight of the Red
Lands; she obtained Sir Gareth from Arthur's
court to rescue her.
2. Legendary
lost land, supposedly a magical place west of Land's End in Cornwall,
believed by some to be where the mortally wounded King Arthur was taken
after his last battle (see Avalon).
Some thought it identical with Liones, the kingdom of Tristan's father,
but this may originally have been Lothian (Leoneis), later confused with a
region of Brittany (Leonais).
Other
legends tell that, when Arthur had fallen in his last battle, Mordred
pursued the remnant of his army into Lyonesse. The ghost
of Merlin appeared, the land sank and
Mordred's forces were destroyed. Arthur's men, however, reached what are
now the
Isles of Scilly
and survived.
Did such a
land exist? Reference is made to it in Camden's Survey of Cornwall
(1602). In Roman times the Scillies seem to have been a single island
partially overrun by the sea. It is said that local fishermen have pulled
up stones from the buildings of Lyonesse in their nets, and that to this
day the bells of long submerged churches can be heard on still nights. In
the 1930s Stanley Baron, a journalist working for the London News
Chronicle, claimed to have heard bells when staying at Sennen Cove, immediately
to the north of Land's End. Edith Olivier, a sometime mayor of Wilton,
near
Salisbury, allegedly
saw some of the domes and spires of Lyonesse in the sea, when standing on
the cliffs at Land's End.
According to ancient celtic tradition, the
narrow strip of the Atlantic Ocean that lies between the coast of Cornwall,
England, and the Scilly Islands was once dry land, covered with prosperous
towns and handsome churches. Then, sometime in the 5th century AD the ocean
abruptly engulf Lyonesse, and only one man, named Trevilian, escaped to tell
of its destruction. To this day, his descendants' family coat of arms bears
a picture of the white horse on which the ancestral Trevilian reportedly
rode to safety.
See Mu, Atlantis
and Lemuria.
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