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Updated: June 23, 2025
The island that bears his name, rendered familiar to many delighted readers by Besant's Armorel of Lyonesse, is no longer inhabited, but bears many marks of its former population. Traces of old habitation abound; there are many barrows and one perfect kistvaen. Among other saints, Teilo seems to have been at St. Helen's. St.
"My name," replied the wounded knight, "is Tramtrist; I am of the country of Lyonesse, and the wound from which I suffer was received in a battle I fought for a lady who had been wronged." "You shall have all the help here we can give you," said King Anguish. "I have just met with a sad loss myself, for the best knight in my kingdom has been slain."
One day, though, that glorious Atlantic rose like a mountain above Lyonesse, and where in the morning had been a beautiful city with churches and houses, and fertile lands, in the evening there was only a raging, boiling sea, bearing on its bosom fragments of the lost world it had devoured. This, though, was long after the time of which I am writing now.
That would have been murder!" exclaimed the Duke of Lyonesse, who liked well enough running away with pretty maids, but much deprecated the interference of inconvenient relatives afterwards. As, for that matter, did most of the royal princes of that time. Who did their ill by stealth, But blushed to find it fame.
She was the daughter of a small farmer in St Maria's, one of the Isles of Lyonesse beyond Off-Wessex, who had spent a large sum, as there understood, on her education, by sending her to the mainland for two years.
It is claimed by tradition that these islets are a portion of the lost land of Lyonesse, the old-world haunt of Arthur and Tristram a land of villages, pastures, smiling vales, now buried beneath the waves.
When he saw this he returned to Palamides, whom he found sitting under a tree, sorely wounded. "Thanks for your timely aid," said the Saracen. "You have saved my life." "What is your name?" asked Tristram. "It is Sir Palamides." "Then have I saved my greatest enemy; and I here challenge you to battle." "What is your name?" asked Palamides. "I am Tristram of Lyonesse."
"Fair sir, my name is Lancelot du Lake." "Alas, can this be so? Have I fought thus against the man I love best in the world?" "Then who are you?" "My name is Tristram de Lyonesse." "Oh, what strange chance is this! Take my sword, Sir Tristram, for you have earned it well." And he knelt and yielded Tristram his sword. Tristram in turn knelt and yielded up his.
"Patsy is all you say and more. But if she had been better trained and somewhat more under control, she would never have run like a hare to the Wild of Blairmore, the Duke of Lyonesse would have been spared the charge of buckshot in his haunch, and I should not have had the death of Lord Wargrove on my hands." "Pooh," said the old Earl, "that is what every man runs the risk of.
Then said the King to Linet, 'I wonder that your sister, dame Lyonesse, does not come here to visit me, or more truly to visit my nephew, Sir Gareth, who has worked so hard to win her love. 'My lord, answered Linet, 'you must, by your grace, hold her excused, for she does not know that Sir Gareth is here. 'Go and fetch her, then, said Arthur.
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