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The drowning of ‘Lyonesse’: early legends of land submergence in southwest Britain and geoscience
Folk Life, Vol.62(1), pp.1-17
2024
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Abstract
Stories about a submerged land named Lyonesse abound in culture traditions of Southwest Britain and plausibly derive from memories of land loss within the Scilly Isles. We review Lyonesse stories, their links to Arthurian romances and Greek/Roman accounts of the Cassiterides, and trace their divergent evolution. From this region’s history of land-sea movements and human occupation, we propose Lyonesse stories originated more than 4000 years ago when rising sea level divided a single inhabited island in the Scilly group. The comparable antiquity of similar stories isa compelling reason for supposing Lyonesse stories originated from observations of submergence encoded in cultural memories through oral traditions that endured in intelligible form for several millennia to reach us today.
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- Title
- The drowning of ‘Lyonesse’: early legends of land submergence in southwest Britain and geoscience
- Authors
- Patrick Nunn (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and SocietyRita Compatangelo-Soussignan - Le Mans Université
- Publication details
- Folk Life, Vol.62(1), pp.1-17
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.1080/04308778.2024.2322818
- ISSN
- 1759-670X; 0430-8778
- Copyright note
- © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991008898002621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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