词条 | Corineus |
释义 | Corineus Cornish legendary figure legendary eponymous hero of Cornwall. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae (1135–39), he was a Trojan warrior who accompanied Brutus the Trojan, the legendary founder of Britain, to England. Corineus killed Gogmagog (Goëmagot), the greatest of the giants inhabiting Cornwall, by hurling him from a cliff. A cliff near Totnes, Devon, is still called Giant's Leap. |
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