Digital 6:00 a.m. Afterwork: The border.

A lost land said to have existed beyond Cornwall. 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). As to the lost land itself, a legend told 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). Earlier, the medieval Arab geographer Idrisi uses the word Dns for a place that is perhaps the Scillies. Dns may be a scribal mistake for Lns (Lyonesse). In Roman times the Scillies seem to have been a single island partially overrun by the sea.


This one is also a gift for I was speaking to you on the phone, the morning I took this shot graih, remember? I'd drove out to the Reservoir again, to get a moon shot reflected in the water. No go there, once again. But the sunrise was spectacular.



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