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Lyonesse, the Glossary

Lyonesse (/liːɒˈnɛs/ lee-uh-NESS) is a kingdom which, according to legend, consisted of a long strand of land stretching from Land's End at the southwestern tip of Cornwall, England, to what is now the Isles of Scilly in the Celtic Sea portion of the Atlantic Ocean.^[1]

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Cornish folklore
Fictional European countries
History of the Isles of Scilly
Locations in Celtic mythology
Mythological populated places

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892), was an English poet.

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist and critic.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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BR Standard Class 5

The British Railways Standard Class 5MT is one of the 12 BR standard classes of steam locomotive built by British Railways in the 1950s.

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Brenda Wootton

Brenda Wootton (née Ellery) (10 February 1928 – 11 March 1994) was a Cornish folk singer and poet and was seen as an ambassador for Cornish tradition and culture in all the Celtic nations and as far as Australia and Canada.

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Breton mythology

Breton mythology is the mythology or corpus of explanatory and heroic tales originating in Brittany.

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Cantre'r Gwaelod

Cantre'r Gwaelod, also known as Cantref Gwaelod or The Lowland Hundred, is a legendary ancient sunken kingdom said to have occupied a tract of fertile land lying between Ramsey Island and Bardsey Island in what is now Cardigan Bay to the west of Wales. Lyonesse and Cantre'r Gwaelod are Flood myths and locations in Celtic mythology.

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Cardigan Bay

Cardigan Bay (Bae Ceredigion) is a large inlet of the Irish Sea, indenting the west coast of Wales between Bardsey Island, Gwynedd in the north, and Strumble Head, Pembrokeshire at its southern end.

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Celtic Britons

The Britons (*Pritanī, Britanni), also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were an indigenous Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others).

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Celtic Sea

The Celtic Sea is the area of the Atlantic Ocean off the southern coast of Ireland bounded to the north by Saint George's Channel; other limits include the Bristol Channel, the English Channel, and the Bay of Biscay, as well as adjacent portions of Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany.

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Cornish language

Cornish (Standard Written Form: Kernewek or Kernowek) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language family.

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Cornish mythology

Cornish mythology is the folk tradition and mythology of the Cornish people. Lyonesse and Cornish mythology are Cornish folklore.

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Cornish people

The Cornish people or Cornish (Kernowyon, Cornƿīelisċ) are an ethnic group native to, or associated with Cornwall: and a recognised national minority in the United Kingdom, which (like the Welsh and Bretons) can trace its roots to the Brittonic Celtic ancient Britons who inhabited Great Britain from somewhere between the 11th and 7th centuries BC and inhabited Britain at the time of the Roman conquest.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow;; or) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Cornwall Council

Cornwall Council (Konsel Kernow), known between 1889 and 2009 as Cornwall County Council (Konteth Konsel Kernow), is the local authority which governs the non-metropolitan county of Cornwall in South West England.

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Culture of Cornwall

The culture of Cornwall (Gonisogeth Kernow) forms part of the culture of the United Kingdom, but has distinct customs, traditions and peculiarities.

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Dawn in Lyonesse

Dawn in Lyonesse is a 1938 short novel by the American author Mary Ellen Chase, set in the English county of Cornwall.

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Dorchester, Dorset

Dorchester is the county town of Dorset, England.

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Earth and Air and Rain

Earth and Air and Rain is a song cycle for baritone and piano by Gerald Finzi (190156).

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Eilhart von Oberge

Eilhart von Oberge was a German poet of the late 12th century.

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Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603.

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Emma Gifford

Emma Lavinia Gifford (24 November 1840 – 27 November 1912) was an English writer and suffragist.

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English Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places.

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First Knight

First Knight is a 1995 medieval historical drama film based on Arthurian legend, directed by Jerry Zucker.

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Gallia Lugdunensis

Gallia Lugdunensis (French: Gaule Lyonnaise) was a province of the Roman Empire in what is now the modern country of France, part of the Celtic territory of Gaul formerly known as Celtica.

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Gerald Finzi

Gerald Raphael Finzi (14 July 1901 – 27 September 1956) was a British composer.

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Gradlon

Gradlon the Great (Gradlon Meur) was a semi-legendary 5th century "king" of Cornouaille who became the hero of many Breton folk stories.

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Guinevere

Guinevere (Gwenhwyfar; Gwenivar, Gwynnever), also often written in Modern English as Guenevere or Guenever, was, according to Arthurian legend, an early-medieval queen of Great Britain and the wife of King Arthur.

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GWR 3300 Class

The Bulldog and Bird classes were double-framed inside cylinder 4-4-0 steam locomotives used for passenger services on the Great Western Railway.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.

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Idylls of the King

Idylls of the King, published between 1859 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892; Poet Laureate from 1850) which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and her tragic betrayal of him, and the rise and fall of Arthur's kingdom.

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International Phonetic Alphabet chart for English dialects

The International Phonetic Alphabet chart for English dialects complies all the most common applications of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent pronunciations of the English language.

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Isles of Scilly

The Isles of Scilly (label, Enesek Syllan, or Enesow Syllan) are a small archipelago off the southwestern tip of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Jack Vance

John Holbrook Vance (August 28, 1916 – May 26, 2013) was an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer.

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John of Worcester

John of Worcester (died c. 1140) was an English monk and chronicler who worked at Worcester Priory.

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King Arthur

King Arthur (Brenin Arthur, Arthur Gernow, Roue Arzhur, Roi Arthur), according to legends, was a king of Britain.

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Knights of the Round Table

The Knights of the Round Table (Marchogion y Ford Gron, Marghekyon an Moos Krenn, Marc'hegien an Daol Grenn) are the legendary knights of the fellowship of King Arthur that first appeared in the Matter of Britain literature in the mid-12th century.

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Land's End

Land's End (Cornish Standard Written Form or Pedn an Wlas) is a headland and tourist and holiday complex in western Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, on the Penwith peninsula about west-south-west of Penzance at the western end of the A30 road.

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Le Morte d'Arthur

Le Morte d'Arthur (originally written as le morte Darthur; Anglo-Norman French for "The Death of Arthur") is a 15th-century Middle English prose reworking by Sir Thomas Malory of tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table, along with their respective folklore.

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List of King Arthur class locomotives

Below are the names and numbers of the LSWR N15 class/SR 'King Arthur' Class locomotives.

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Listeneise

Listeneise or Listenoise is the name of the land of the Holy Grail in some Arthurian works, and the location of the Grail Castle. Lyonesse and Listeneise are locations associated with Arthurian legend.

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Lothian

Lothian (Lowden, Loudan, -en, -o(u)n; Lodainn) is a region of the Scottish Lowlands, lying between the southern shore of the Firth of Forth and the Lammermuir Hills and the Moorfoot Hills.

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Lyonesse Trilogy

The Lyonesse Trilogy is a group of three fantasy novels by Jack Vance, set in the European Dark Ages, in the mythical Elder Isles west of France and southwest of Britain, a generation or two before the birth of King Arthur.

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Mark of Cornwall

Mark of Cornwall (Marcus, Margh, March or Marchell, Marc'h) was a sixth-century King of Kernow (Cornwall), possibly identical with King Conomor.

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Mary Ellen Chase

Mary Ellen Chase (24 February 1887 – 28 July 1973) was an American educator, teacher, scholar, and author.

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Matter of Britain

The Matter of Britain (matière de Bretagne) is the body of medieval literature and legendary material associated with Great Britain and Brittany and the legendary kings and heroes associated with it, particularly King Arthur.

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Meliodas

Meliodas is a figure in Arthurian legend in the 12th-century Prose ''Tristan'' and subsequent accounts.

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Mordred

Mordred or Modred (or; Welsh: Medraut or Medrawt) is a figure in the legend of King Arthur.

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Mount's Bay

Mount's Bay (Baya an Garrek) is a bay on the English Channel coast of Cornwall, England, stretching from the Lizard Point to Gwennap Head.

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Penelope Shuttle

Penelope Shuttle (born 12 May 1947) is an English poet.

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Prose Tristan

The Prose Tristan (Tristan en prose) is an adaptation of the Tristan and Iseult story into a long prose romance, and the first to tie the subject entirely into the arc of the Arthurian legend.

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Richard Gendall

Professor Richard Roscow Morris "Dick" Gendall (12 April 1924 – 12 September 2017) was a British expert on the Cornish language.

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Sam Llewellyn

Sam Llewellyn (born 1948) is a British author of literature for children and adults.

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Seithenyn

Seithenyn (sometimes spelt Seithennin) sometimes known as Seithenyn of the feeble mind is a figure from Welsh legend, apparently contemporary with King Gwyddno Garanhir.

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Seven Stones Reef

The Seven Stones reef is a rocky reef nearly west of Land's End, Cornwall and east-northeast of the Isles of Scilly.

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Sodom and Gomorrah

In the Abrahamic religions, Sodom and Gomorrah were two cities destroyed by God for their wickedness.

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SS Lyonesse (1889)

SS Lyonesse was a passenger vessel built for the West Cornwall Steam Ship Company in 1875.

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St Juliot

St Juliot is a civil parish in north-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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St Michael's Mount

St Michael's Mount (Karrek Loos yn Koos, meaning "hoar rock in woodland") is a tidal island in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Subsignal

Subsignal is a German progressive rock band.

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Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.

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The Seven Deadly Sins (manga)

is a Japanese fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Nakaba Suzuki.

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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet.

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Thomas Malory

Sir Thomas Malory was an English writer, the author of Le Morte d'Arthur, the classic English-language chronicle of the Arthurian legend, compiled and in most cases translated from French sources.

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Trevelyan

Trevelyan is a Welsh and Cornish name derived from a place-name which originally meant "farmstead 'trev' or Tref (town in Welsh) of Elyan".

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Tristan

Tristan (Latin/Brythonic: Drustanus; Trystan), also known as Tristram, Tristyn or Tristain and similar names, is the hero of the legend of Tristan and Iseult.

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Tristan and Iseult

Tristan and Iseult, also known as Tristan and Isolde and other names, is a medieval chivalric romance told in numerous variations since the 12th century.

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Tristram of Lyonesse

Tristram of Lyonesse is a long epic poem written by the British poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, that recounts in grand fashion the famous medieval story of the ill-fated lovers Tristan and Isolde (Tristram and Iseult in Swinburne's version).

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Vyvyan family

The Vyvyans are a prominent Cornish family who were members of Parliament, baronets, and landowners in Penwith and Kerrier since the 15th century.

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Walter de la Mare

Walter John de la Mare (25 April 1873 – 22 June 1956) was an English poet, short story writer and novelist.

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Welsh mythology

Welsh mythology consists of both folk traditions developed in Wales, and traditions developed by the Celtic Britons elsewhere before the end of the first millennium.

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West Cornwall Steam Ship Company

The West Cornwall Steam Ship Company was established in 1870 to operate ferry services between Penzance, Cornwall, and the Isles of Scilly.

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Where Troy Once Stood

Where Troy Once Stood is a 1990 book by Iman Jacob Wilkens that argues that the city of Troy was located in England and that the Trojan War was fought between groups of Celts.

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Ys

Ys (pronounced), also spelled Is or Kêr-Is in Breton, and Ville d'Ys in French, is a mythical city on the coast of Brittany that was swallowed up by the ocean. Lyonesse and Ys are Flood myths, locations in Celtic mythology and Mythological populated places.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyonesse

Also known as City of Lions (sunk city off Cornwall), Leonais, Leonais Lyonnesse, Leonnoys, Leonois, Llyonesse, Lyonesse, Leonnoys, Lyonnesse, Parmenie.

, Prose Tristan, Richard Gendall, Sam Llewellyn, Seithenyn, Seven Stones Reef, Sodom and Gomorrah, SS Lyonesse (1889), St Juliot, St Michael's Mount, Subsignal, Sylvia Plath, The Seven Deadly Sins (manga), Thomas Hardy, Thomas Malory, Trevelyan, Tristan, Tristan and Iseult, Tristram of Lyonesse, Vyvyan family, Walter de la Mare, Welsh mythology, West Cornwall Steam Ship Company, Where Troy Once Stood, Ys.

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See also

Cornish folklore

Fictional European countries

History of the Isles of Scilly

Locations in Celtic mythology

Mythological populated places

References