maenseyth

Updated: May 27, 2025

He lived at peace in his city of Maenseyth, hard by the Sullêh, where the foreign traders brought their ships to anchor sometimes from Tyre itself, oftener from the Tyrian colonies down the Spanish coast; and he ruled over a peaceful nation of tinners, herdsmen, and charcoal-burners.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales

So King Graul ruled happily over a happy people until the dark morning when a horseman came galloping to the palace of Maenseyth with a cry that the tide had broken through Crebawethan and was sweeping north and west upon the land, drowning all in its path. "Hark!" said he, "already you may hear the roar of it by Bryher!"

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales