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Lyonnesse
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Lyonnesse [ˌlaɪəˈnɛs]
n
(Myth & Legend / European Myth & Legend) (in Arthurian legend) the mythical birthplace of Sir Tristram, situated in SW England and believed to have been submerged by the sea
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The land of Lyonesse has become a place of danger, with its people living with the threat of monsters in the wells.
Scholastic Press by Children's Bookwatch
[3] What the editors of these anthologies have chosen to leave out is both surprising (such as A Noble Tale of Sir Lancelot du Lake or The Tale of Sir Gareth of Orkney) and understandable (The Book of Sir Tristram de Lyonesse is lengthy even by Malory's standards and is often summarized in student paperback editions).
Teaching Malory's Morte Darthur with chronicles by Kaufman, Alexander L. / Academic Exchange Quarterly
2) Swinburne's words are taken from the dedicatory sonnet with which he prefaces his epic poem Tristram of Lyonesse, and bears the sub-epigraph 'The Pines', April 1882'.
Theodore Watts-Dunton's Aylwin (1898) and the reduplications of ... by Maxwell, Catherine / Yearbook of English Studies
 
 
 
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