Lyonesse

Lyonesse is a legendary land in British mythology.

Location

Often it is with Leonais in Brittany or Lothian in Scotland ( Old French: Loenois ) equated. In Cornish folklore is talk of a country that supposedly once extended over Mount's Bay, which stretched south and west to Land's End to today's Isles of Scilly.

Flood disaster

Lyonesse is also considered the home of the knight Tristan. According to a legend, the land shall be devoured been sometime in the 5th century from the sea. Among the few survivors of the sinking of a man to have numbered named Trevilian. This is a mold mounted and be just rode away from the flood. With great difficulty he reached a cave at Marazion and watched the disaster.

From the Seven Stones Reef off Lands End, it is, it marks the place where I was once one of the lost cities, the City of Lions found. Fischer frequently reported from the fact that they moved parts of masonry and glass panes in their nets to the surface. In inclement weather you could probably hear the church bells ringing even from Lyonesse under water.

Although it is considered unlikely that at this point a country has sunk named Lyonesse in the sea. There was, however, during the Middle Ages various subsidence of land below sea level.

Reception of Lyonesse Myth

The fantasy author Jack Vance has the fabled island a monument in his Lyonesse trilogy.