"Isles of Scilly Football League The Isles of Scilly Football League is the official football league for the Isles of Scilly. The football league is the smallest in the world, with only two clubs. The league is affiliated with The Football Association. In the 1920s, the Lyonnesse Inter-Island Cup, a competition between the islands of St. Mary's, Tresco, St. Martins, Bryher and St. Agnes, was formed. By the 1950s, only two clubs remained - the Rangers and the Rovers. In 1984 the two clubs changed their names to the Garrison Gunners and the Woolpack Wanderers, which are their current names."
"though its exact geographical location remained unspecified. The name was not attached to Cornish legends of lost coastal lands until the reign of Elizabeth I of England. However, the legendary lost land between Land's End and Scilly has a distinct Cornish name: ""Lethowsow"". This derives from the Cornish name for the Seven Stones reef, on the reputed site of the lost land's capital and the site of the notorious wreck of the . The name means 'the milky ones', from the constant white water surrounding the reef. Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Arthurian epic ""Idylls of the King"" describes Lyonesse as the"
"Lyonesse Lyonesse is a country in Arthurian legend, particularly in the story of Tristan and Iseult. Said to border Cornwall, it is most notable as the home of the hero Tristan, whose father was king. In later traditions, Lyonesse is said to have sunk beneath the waves some time after the Tristan stories take place, making it similar to Ys and other lost lands in medieval Celtic tales, and perhaps connecting it with the Isles of Scilly (there is evidence that they were once a single larger island, with much of their land lost to rising sea levels). In medieval"
"around the Isles of Scilly. ""The Riddle of Samson"", a novel by Andrew Garve (a pen name of Paul Winterton) is set mainly around the Isles of Scilly. In ""Jacob's Room"", by Virginia Woolf, the hero and a friend of his sail around the islands. The novels that make up ""The Cortes Trilogy"" by John Paul Davis take place in the Isles of Scilly. ""Stone In the Blood"" by Colin Jordan and David England is set on the islands both in 1974 and the Iron Age, when most of Scilly was still one joined landmass. Scilly is mentioned in the"
"Cantre'r Gwaelod ', also known as ' or (), is a legendary ancient sunken kingdom said to have occupied a tract of fertile land lying between Ramsey Island and Bardsey Island in what is now Cardigan Bay to the west of Wales. It has been described as a ""Welsh Atlantis"" and has featured in folklore, literature and song. Cantre'r Gwaelod was an area of land which, according to legend, was located in an area west of present-day Wales which is now under the waters of Cardigan Bay. Accounts variously suggest the tract of land extended from Bardsey Island to Cardigan"
"""Lyonesse"", as the 'City of Lions', it was said in some later traditions to be the capital of the legendary kingdom, situated on what is today the Seven Stones Reef, some eighteen miles west of Land's End and eight miles north-east of the Isles of Scilly. The legend of a sunken kingdom appears in both Cornish and Breton mythology. In Christian times it came to be viewed as a sort of Cornish Sodom and Gomorrah, an example of divine wrath provoked by unvirtuous living. There is a Breton parallel in the tale of the Cité d'Ys or Ker Ys, similarly"
"that until relatively recent times the islands were much larger and perhaps joined together into one island named Ennor. Rising sea levels flooded the central plain around 400–500 AD, forming the current 55 islands and islets, if an island is defined as ""land surrounded by water at high tide and supporting land vegetation"". The word ' is a contraction of the Old Cornish ' (', mutated to '), meaning 'the land' or the 'great island'. Evidence for the older large island includes: Offshore, midway between Land's End and the Isles of Scilly, is the supposed location of the mythical lost"
"later placed in a boat to be carried away to Afallon. Arthur's men then retreated to a cave on the slopes of Y Lliwedd, where they are said to sleep until such time as they are needed. Merlin is supposed to have hidden the golden throne of Britain among the cliffs north of Crib y Ddysgl when the Saxons invaded. Glaslyn was also the final resting place of a water monster, known as an """" (also the Welsh word for beaver), which had plagued the people of the Conwy valley. They tempted the monster out of the water with a"
"island kingdom of Arthur and his fairy sister Morgan (""fée Morgue"") is hidden by a cloud in the Red Sea. The fairy queen Lady Morgan (Dame Morgue, Morgue li fee) also shows up in Adam de la Halle's late-13th-century French farce ""Jeu de la feuillée"", in which she visits a contemporary Arras. Morgan le Fay, or ""Fata Morgana"" in Italian, has been in particular associated with Sicily as a location of her enchanted realm in the mythological landscape of medieval Europe at least since the Norman conquest of southern Italy, and local folklore describes her as living in a magical"
"in 1974 and also in the Iron Age, where the hills are home to the community of Salt Crones. In the medieval story of Tristan and Isolde the island appears as the place where Tristan defeats and kills the giant Morolt, uncle of Isolde and brother-in-law of the King of Ireland The island also features in the Ann Bridge novel, ""The Dangerous Islands"". Samson, Isles of Scilly Samson () is the largest uninhabited island of the Isles of Scilly, off the southwestern tip of the Cornish peninsula of Great Britain. It is in size. The island consists of two hills,"
"Samson, Isles of Scilly Samson () is the largest uninhabited island of the Isles of Scilly, off the southwestern tip of the Cornish peninsula of Great Britain. It is in size. The island consists of two hills, North Hill and South Hill, which are connected by an isthmus on which the former inhabitants built many of their sturdy stone cottages. Samson was named after Samson of Dol. The twin hills of Samson were formerly associated with breasts, in a similar way to the Paps of Jura in Scotland and the Paps of Anu in Ireland. There are large ancient burial"
"was Avalon. Geoffrey of Monmouth asserted that Arthur ""was mortally wounded"" at Camlann but was then carried ""to the Isle of Avallon (""insulam Auallonis"") to be cured of his wounds"", with the implication that he would at some point be cured and return therefrom made explicit in Geoffrey's later ""Vita Merlini"". Another tradition held that Arthur was awaiting his return beneath some mountain or hill. First referenced by Gervase of Tilbury in his ""Otia Imperialia"" (c.1211), this was maintained in British folklore into the 19th century and Loomis and others have taken it as a tale of Arthur's residence in"
"or as far south as Ramsey Island. Legends of the land suggest that it may have extended 20 miles west of the present coast. There are several versions of the myth. The earliest known form of the legend is usually said to appear in the ""Black Book of Carmarthen"", in which the land is referred to as ""Maes Gwyddno"" (). In this version, the land was lost to floods when a well-maiden named Mererid neglected her duties and allowed the well to overflow. Rachel Bromwich questions this identification, saying that ""There is no certainty, however, that in twelfth century tradition"
"of Sarn Badrig nearby, could have suggested that some great tragedy had overcome a community there long ago, and so the myth may have grown from that. The legend of Cantre'r Gwaelod is comparable to the deluge myth found in nearly every ancient culture, and it has been likened to the story of Atlantis. Several similar legends exist in Celtic mythology which refer to a lost land beneath the waves. Both the Breton legend of Ker-Ys and the Arthurian tale of Lyonesse refer to a kingdom submerged somewhere in the Celtic Sea, off the coast of Brittany or Cornwall respectively."
"unknown, since Arda Healed will contain all the good things of Arda Marred, whether Númenor will also be recovered or not. Arda (Tolkien) In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Arda is the name given to the Earth in an imaginary period of prehistory, wherein the places mentioned in ""The Lord of the Rings"" and related material once existed. It included several seas and oceans, and the continents of Middle-earth, the Dark Lands, Aman (the Undying Lands), the island of Númenor, and other unknown lands left largely unnamed by Tolkien. Arda was part of Eä, the universe of all which exists."
"time as they are needed. Merlin is supposed to have hidden the golden throne of Britain among the cliffs north of Crib y Ddysgl when the Saxons invaded. Glaslyn was also the final resting place of a water monster, known as an """" (also the Welsh word for beaver), which had plagued the people of the Conwy valley. They tempted the monster out of the water with a young girl, before securing it with chains and dragging it to Glaslyn. A large stone known as Maen Du'r Arddu, below Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, is supposed to have magical powers. Like several"
"lost beneath the waters of Cardigan Bay. According to legend, Sarn Gynfelyn was one of the causeways leading to the lost land. The legend of Cantre'r Gwaelod is comparable to the deluge myth found in nearly every ancient culture, and it has been likened to the story of Atlantis. In a 2006 episode of the BBC television documentary ""Coast"", presenter Neil Oliver visited Sarn Gynfelyn to explore the legend of Cantre'r Gwaelod. The programme also featured the remains of the submerged forest at Ynyslas, some north of Sarn Gynfelyn, which is also associated with the legend. The vista of dead"
"has been found to date; the place name may be from an earlier, non-Gaelic language. In the Norse sagas Skye is called , for example in the and a skaldic poem in the from c. 1230 contains a line that translates as ""the hunger battle-birds were filled in Skye with blood of foemen killed"". The island was also referred to by the Norse as (misty isle), or (isle of cloud). The traditional Gaelic name is (the island of Skye), being a more recent and less common spelling. In 1549 Donald Munro, High Dean of the Isles, wrote of ""Sky"": """""
"drowned as a result of its debauchery with a single virtuous survivor escaping on a horse, in this case King Gradlon. The Welsh equivalent to Lyonesse and Ys is Cantre'r Gwaelod, a legendary drowned kingdom in Cardigan Bay. Not too dissimilarly, the Gaelic otherworld Tír na nÓg ('Land of Youth') was often conceived of as mystical place that had to be reached via a sea voyage, though it lacks an inundation myth. It is often suggested that the tale of Lyonesse represents an extraordinary survival of folk memory of the flooding of the Isles of Scilly and Mount's Bay near"
"Location hypotheses of Atlantis Location hypotheses of Atlantis are various proposed real-world settings for the fictional island of Atlantis, described as a lost civilization mentioned in Plato's dialogues ""Timaeus"" and ""Critias"", written about 360 B.C. In these dialogues, a character named Critias claims that an island called Atlantis was swallowed by the sea about 9,200 years previously. According to the dialogues, this story was passed down to him through his grandfather, also named Critias, who in turn got it from his father, Dropides, who had got it from Solon, the famous Athenian lawmaker, who had got the story from an"
"Trevilian family arms, found throughout the house. The source story of the arms is the Lyonesse legend of Trevilian, as follows: Lyonesse were the lands, now submerged, on the west coast that was said to be the lands of Camelot of King Arthur and the site of the final mortal battle between King Arthur and Mordred. Tennyson's ""Idylls of the King"" claims Lyonesse as the final resting place of King Arthur himself. Perhaps this is why the grave of the king cannot be found, as it lies beneath the sea. Roman writings also speak of a Leonis, now submerged off"
"the island, the partnership of its inhabitants, and the existence of a place known as the World Beneath. This World Beneath is an explanation for Dinotopians surviving the saurian extinction; according to the story, most of the Earth's dinosaurs were destroyed, whilst a few hid in vast underground caverns. These few became the original Dinotopians. No one has entered the World Beneath for centuries, but Arthur intends to do so. His son Will, on the other hand, has chosen to train as a messenger of the sky; a Skybax rider, who lives in symbiosis with his mount, the great ""Quetzalcoatlus"""
"the southeast and the northeast of the volcanic cone. The name Mongibel is found in Arthurian Romance, as the name of the otherworld castle (or realm) of Morgan le Fay and her half-brother, King Arthur, localised at Etna, according to traditions concerning them derived from the stories told by the Breton ""conteurs"" who accompanied the Norman occupiers of Sicily. What were originally Welsh conceptions concerning a dwarf king of a paradisal, Celtic underworld became attached to the quasi-historic figure of Arthur as ""Ruler of the Antipodes"" and were then transplanted into a Sicilian milieu, by Bretons impressed by the already"
"tradition, while in others (e.g., Lamia), they were seen as displacing the Classical beings. 15th-century poet and monk John Lydgate wrote that King Arthur was crowned in ""the land of the fairy"" and taken in his death by four fairy queens, to Avalon, where he lies under a ""fairy hill"", until he is needed again. Fairies appear as significant characters in William Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", which is set simultaneously in the woodland and in the realm of Fairyland, under the light of the moon and in which a disturbance of nature caused by a fairy dispute creates tension"
"Avalon Avalon (; , Old French ""Avalon"", ; literally meaning ""the isle of fruit [or apple] trees"") is a legendary island featured in the Arthurian legend. It first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 pseudo-historical account ""Historia Regum Britanniae"" (""The History of the Kings of Britain"") as the place where King Arthur's sword Excalibur was forged and later where Arthur was taken to recover from his wounds after the Battle of Camlann. Avalon was associated from an early date with mystical practices and figures such as Morgan le Fay. It is traditionally identified as the former island of Glastonbury Tor."
"associated with the New Age, and neo-pagan movements. Pseudoarchaeology and ideas like it may go by other names including ""alternative archaeology"" and Earth mysteries. There is a Cornish legend of the lost land of Lyonesse, which was lost to the sea in the past. The exact location of Lyonesse is in doubt. It is claimed to represent the folk memory of the flooding of the Isles of Scilly and Mount's Bay near Penzance. For example, the Cornish name of St Michael's Mount is ""Karrek Loos y'n Koos"", literally, ""the grey rock in the wood"". The Breton legend of Ys is"
"family), Vivienne gives her sanctuary on Avalon. As such, Morgaine is often tied to the island in legend. After the climactic Battle of Camlann that ends his reign, King Arthur is taken to Avalon to be healed by a group of queens and sorceresses, including Nimue. However, in the ""Demon Knights"" series, she abandons ship to retrieve the sword Excalibur before it can be lost to the world. Arthur remains on Avalon under an enchanted sleep, destined to one day return. In ""Demon Knights"" #14, Avalon is described as a ""Land of the Glorious Dead,"" equating it with the Fortunate"
"plateau for millions of years. The submerged island of Spartel near the Strait of Gibraltar has also been suggested. Several hypotheses place the sunken island in northern Europe, including Doggerland in the North Sea, and Sweden (by Olof Rudbeck in ""Atland"", 1672–1702). Doggerland, as well as Viking Bergen Island, is thought to have been flooded by a megatsunami following the Storegga slide of c. 6100 BC. Some have proposed the Celtic Shelf as a possible location, and that there is a link to Ireland. In 2011, a team, working on a documentary for the National Geographic Channel, led by Professor"
"Mediterranean. In more recent times, just like in the quest for Arthur's mythical capital Camelot, a large number of locations have been put forward as being the real ""Avalon"". Ashe suggests an association of Avalon with the town of Avallon in Burgundy, as part of a theory connecting King Arthur to the Romano-British leader Riothamus who campaigned in that area. Avalon Avalon (; , Old French ""Avalon"", ; literally meaning ""the isle of fruit [or apple] trees"") is a legendary island featured in the Arthurian legend. It first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 pseudo-historical account ""Historia Regum Britanniae"" (""The"
"St Michael's Mount was located five or six miles (10 km) from the sea, enclosed in a thick wood, but that on the third day of November the sea overflowed the land, destroying many towns and drowning many people as well as innumerable oxen and sheep; the ""Anglo-Saxon Chronicle"" records under the date 11 November 1099, ""The sea-flood sprung up to such a height, and did so much harm, as no man remembered that it ever did before"". The Cornish legend of Lyonesse, an ancient kingdom said to have extended from Penwith toward the Isles of Scilly, also talks of"
"fell from the sky and into the sea, wiping out half of the island's land mass. As the race of man began to prosper on the island as well, the star at the bottom of the ocean became known as the Sleeping Child, and people believed that one day it would rise from the waves and take the rest of the Island with it. The island was destroyed by the star during the reign of King Gwylliam, who had foreseen the terrible destruction. He sent a Seren man, Merithyn the Explorer, to find an uninhabited land on which the culture"
"in Wales. Later writers expanded the account to produce a fuller image of the wizard. Merlin's traditional biography casts him as a cambion: born of a mortal woman, sired by an incubus, the non-human from whom he inherits his supernatural powers and abilities. Merlin matures to an ascendant sagehood and engineers the birth of Arthur through magic and intrigue. Later authors have Merlin serve as the king's advisor and mentor to the knights until he is bewitched and forever imprisoned or killed by the Lady of the Lake. He is popularly said to be buried in the magical forest of"
"the realm of Faerie, indicating that the island may exist within it or that the two may be synonymous. During his visit to Faerie, Timothy Hunter encounters a sleeping Arthur in a cave guarded by a giant and Thomas the Rhymer. Thomas claims that Arthur ""sleeps on Avalon and he sleeps here."" He explains that, the mystical nature of Faerie being what it is, this sleeping king figure represents both Arthur and other legendary heroes destined to return, such as Brian Boru. Avalon is also the name of a fictional planet in the 30th century of the DC Universe, named"