the lost isle of lyonesse and other lost isles

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such as hy-brasil!!

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 3 July 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

list and expand on yr favourite (does every coastal nation have one of these legends?)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 3 July 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Mu is pretty cool.

― kate (kate), Thursday, 3 July 2003 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Atlantis is WAAAAYYYY overrated. Dud.

Lyonesse and Hy-Brazil = classic!

Mu = justified and somewhat slightly ancient.

― kate (kate), Thursday, 3 July 2003 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"While concrete physical evidence of this ancient continent may be difficult to find, many people "know" that they have a strong connection to Lemuria."

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 3 July 2003 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

http://tolweb.org/tree/eukaryotes/animals/chordata/mammalia/primates/lemurs.jpg

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 3 July 2003 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

http://lyonesse.free.fr/lyonesse.jpg

― kate (kate), Thursday, 3 July 2003 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

That map didn't shrink very well, now, did it? Sigh.

― kate (kate), Thursday, 3 July 2003 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Krakatoa!

http://www.webencyclo.com/dossiers/anciens/contenu/images/pollution/krakatoa.jpg

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 3 July 2003 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I grew up near the lost island town of Ravenspurn, in the mouth of the Humber vaguely near the modern Spurn Point. It was a rich port in the Middle Ages, until it vanished one night in a storm.

(another nearby sunken village was called Penisthorpe; it was near the modern hamlet of Sunk Island).

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 3 July 2003 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow.

What was the name of the American colony which disappeared overnight? I want to say Roanoake, but I'm sure that's not right.

― kate (kate), Thursday, 3 July 2003 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

How about islands or settlements that just mysteriously APPEAR overnight?

Skara Brae to thread!

― kate (kate), Thursday, 3 July 2003 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

surtsey:

http://www.watson1999-69.freeserve.co.uk/surtsey/images/lightning_large.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 3 July 2003 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Does anyone remember a Helen Cresswell book/TV Series about a Nottinghamshire village that appears and disappears? I think it was called The [something-or-other] of Polly Flint, or something along those lines.

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 3 July 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember a book about a trackway that appeared and disappeared - and was populated by loads of people from the various ages that used it. The children used it as a shortcut, and they passed medieval tinkers and Iron Age traders. When I try to remember it, I get it mixed up with The Driftway by Penelope Lively. (I think?) Very confused now.

― kate (kate), Thursday, 3 July 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

It certainly sounds like a Penelope Lively book. Wow, I googled her and she wrote some of my all-time favourite books when I was a kid:

THE WHISPERING KNIGHTS, 1971
THE WILD HUNT OF HAGWORTHY, 1971
THE DRIFTWAY, 1972
THE GHOST OF THOMAS KEMPE, 1973

Do we have a Penelope Lively thread?

― kate (kate), Thursday, 3 July 2003 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember the book Lyonesse by Jack Vance, and I remember getting all excited about it because the cover was lovely in an appealing-to-14-year-olds-obsessed-with-fantasy sort of way, and it sounded like it had an intriguing plot... and then it turned out to be very disappointing. :-(

― kate (kate), Thursday, 3 July 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

What was the name of the American colony which disappeared overnight? I want to say Roanoake, but I'm sure that's not right.

the colonists at Roanoake disappeared over the course of several years. the boat that was meant to bring them supplies kept being delayed, and when it showed up they had all gone to Croatan.

How about islands or settlements that just mysteriously APPEAR overnight?

there is some island off Iceland that did just that in the uh 1960s or 1970s. apparently it is popular with puffins.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 3 July 2003 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I went to Santorini as a boy. It was nice.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 3 July 2003 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I must have misread and put 'mostly' in the thread title.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 3 July 2003 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

No use whistling for Lyonnesse!
Sea-cold, sea-cold it certainly is.
Take a look at the white, high berg on his forehead-

There's where it sunk.

(extract from Lyonesse by PLath)

You know I never knew what this poem was about, before. I had never heard of Lyonesse as a lost isle. I love it when I learn something interesting!

Thankyou Jim Cunningham....err... I mean ILX.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 4 July 2003 04:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Does Hashima count?

― Cozen (Cozen), Friday, 4 July 2003 08:51 (twenty-two years ago)

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