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Literary places

Places first described in a text, and only afterwards looked for on the ground.

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Lyonesse – Arthurian Drowned Land

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Literary place

Lyonesse – Arthurian Drowned Land

Literary 12th c. (Chrétien) – 15th c. Malory codification; folk attachment 16th c. · Cornish-Celtic / Anglo-Norman chivalric literature

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Lyonesse – Arthurian Drowned Land

Literary 12th c. (Chrétien) – 15th c. Malory codification; folk attachment 16th c. · Cornish-Celtic / Anglo-Norman chivalric literature

Tristan's homeland between Cornwall and Scilly — 140 churches drowned one night by Arthurian romance.