LEONNOYS LYONESSE See also:

• LEONNOYS LYONESSE LYONNESSE

LYONNESSE  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
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south See also:

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

coast of See also:

• CORNWALL

Cornwall, See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England . See also:

• LYONNESSE, LYONESSE, LEONNOYS

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
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

Early See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF

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

• FLORENCE
• FLORENCE (Ital. Firenze, Lat. Florentia)

Florence of See also:

• WORCESTER
• WORCESTER, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF
• WORCESTER, JOHN TIPTOFT, EARL OF (1427—1470)
• WORCESTER, WILLIAM (c. 1415-c. 1482)

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

• SUGGESTION

suggestion of disbelief the flourishing See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

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

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

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
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient See also:

• LOCAL

local tradition, apparently See also:

• INDEPENDENT

independent of the See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

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 [or TnoRP], JOHN (/l. 1570-1618)
• THORPE, BENJAMIN (1782-1870)

Thorpe (See also:

• LONDON

London, 1848-1849) .