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PRELIMINARY

The Elder Isles and its peoples: a brief survey, which, while not altogether tedious, may be neglected by
the reader impatient with facts.

The Elder Isles, now sunk beneath the Atlantic, in olden times were located across the Cantabrian Gulf
(now the Bay of Biscay) from Old Gaul.

Christian chroniclers have little to say regarding the Elder Isles. Gildas and Nennius both make
references to Hybras, though Bede is silent. Geoffrey of Monmouth alludes both to Lyonesse and
Avallon, and perhaps other places and events which can less certainly be identified. Chretien of Troyes
rhapsodizes upon Ys and its pleasures; and Ys is also the frequent locale of early Armorican folk-tales.
Irish references are numerous but confusing and contradictory. St. Bresabius of Cardiff propounds a
rather fanciful list of the Kings of Lyonesse; St. Columba inveighs against the “heretics, witches, idolaters
and Druids” of the island he calls “Hy Brasill,” the medieval term for “Hybras.” Otherwise the record is
quiet.