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	Chapter Copper Captain <i>to</i> Corinna of C by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		Corineus was one of the suite of Brute.
		Corineus challenged the giant to wrestle with him.
		At the beginning of the encounter, Corineus and the giant standing front held each other strongly in their arms, and panted aloud for breath; but Goëmagot presently grasping Corineus with all his might broke three of his ribs, two on his right side and one on his left.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1113/14623/3.html (279 words)

	'Corineus and Gogmagog' Cornish Folk Tale on Gandolf dot Com
		Corineus dodged the arrow, charged at Himbert, and broke his head in pieces with the bow he was carrying.
		Corineus remembered his battle-axe and swung it up in the air and struck Suhard on the crest of his helmet splitting him in two halves top to bottom.
		Corineus was infuriated by what had happened and summoned all of his strength and heaved Gogmagog up on to his shoulders and, hurrying as fast as he could under his weight, ran for the nearby coast.
	www.gandolf.com /cornwall/giants/gogmagog.shtml (4671 words)

	Blood Wite (part one), by Amanda
		Corineus and Michael were due to arrive sometime during the day and he had no idea when they would actually turn up.
		Corineus and Michael continued their argument and Blair was content to watch them, glorifying in the weirdness of it all.
		Corineus returned the look with an infuriating smile that told Ellison that was all the answer he could expect.
	www.skeeter63.org /~tslibrary/stories/amanda13a.htm (9028 words)

	Bad Blood (part one), by Amanda
		Corineus’ attitude toward Blair annoyed him but Simon stressed it would be good for relations and would brook no argument from the other.
		Corineus didn’t seem to be baiting Blair and Jim settled back to observe the man. He tuned his hearing in and caught the man’s heartbeat.
		Ellison grimaced as Corineus smashed the coffee cup in his hand, the shards of porcelain and remnants of coffee dropping to the floor.
	www.skeeter63.org /~tslibrary/stories/amanda6a.htm (5523 words)

	Gog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, Gogmagog was a giant who was slain by the eponymous Cornish hero Corin or Corineus.
		Corineus is supposed to have slain the giant by throwing him into the sea near Plymouth.
		To Corineus, Cornwall, as now we call it, fell by lot; the rather by him lik't, for that the hugest Giants in Rocks and Caves were said to lurk still there; which kind of Monsters to deal with was his old exercise.
	1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/g/go/gog.html (1265 words)

	SABRINAS.NET The Legend of Sabrina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		However, as Locrine was already engaged to Guendolen, daughter of Corineus, this was scandalous.
		Corineus threatened Locrine with a battle axe, and forced him to marry his daughter.
		When Corineus, ruler of Cornwall, died, Locrine divorced Guendolen and acknowledged Estrildis and her daughter.
	www.muswell-hill.com /sabrina/pages/legend.html (284 words)

	Brut (MS Cotton Caligula)
		Corineus wes ifaren to wode; and draf þer þa wilde deor.
		Corineus heom rasde to; swa þe rimie wulf.
		Corineus hine fælde; and hine fusde mid mæine.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /etcbin/toccer-new2?id=LayBruC.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/mideng-parsed&tag=public&part=all&CFID=3264250&CFTOKEN=15178654 (15269 words)

	Book the Second (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Corineus and the giant advanced towards each other, they yoked their arms and stood breast to breast.
		But Corineus was not overcome, he hugged the giant grimly to his waist, and grasping him by the girdle swung him over the cliff upon the rocks below.
		And to Corineus, the conqueror, was given a dukedom, which was thence called Corinee and thence Cornwall.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/druid2.htm (3288 words)

	The Age of the Giants: Corineus and Gogmagog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When Brutus and Corineus, with their Trojan hosts, landed at Plymouth, these chiefs wisely sent parties into the interior to explore the country, and to learn something of the people.
		Brutus and Corineus were not, however, to be terrified by the immense size of their enemies, nor by the horrid noises which they made, hoping to strike terror into the armed hosts.
		Corineus breathed for a minute, then he rushed upon his prostrate foe, and seizing him by the legs, he dragged him to the edge of the cliff; and precipitated him into the sea.
	www.allstarz.org /religioustext/neu/celt/prwe/prwe004.htm (762 words)

	Sabrina, The Class Goddess of Amherst College -- Chapter 1
		Nevertheless, when Corineus heard of Locrinus' marriage to Esyllt, he was exceeding wroth and prepared to march against Locrinus, and punish him for the insult he had offered him and his daughter.
		At the end of seven years the mighty king Corineus died, and straightway Locrinus put away the haughty Guendolen, with whom life had become unbearable, and he took back to him on his throne the beautiful Queen Esyllt for whom he had waited so long.
		The haughty daughter of Corineus gloried in her victory, heaping insults on the dead king and reviling the two women who stood trembling before her.
	www.amherst.edu /~rjyanco/amherst/history/1910shoop-mp/chapter01/menu.html (1397 words)

	Bad Blood (part two), by Amanda
		Corineus felt certain he and Ellison wouldn’t be faced with such a problem and Ellison may prove problematic himself if he were confronted with Blair being approached.
		Corineus sighed as he watched the expressions on some of the faces watching the two mad dancers.
		Michael and Corineus watched in grim pleasure as their much hated enemy was reduced to a burning shell on the floor while Jim bolted for the direction he had seen Blair run.
	tslibrary.skeeter63.org /stories/amanda6b.htm (7015 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Queen Gwendolen
		Queen Gwendolen was the wife of King Locrinus of the Britons until she defeated him in battle and took on the leadership of Britain herself according to Geoffrey of Monmouth.
		Gwendolen was the daughter of Corineus of Cornwall and was married to Locrinus, with whom she had one son, Maddan.
		Locrinus was in love with Estrildis, the daughter of the king of Germany whom he rescued from Humber the Hun, though.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Queen_Gwendolen (362 words)

	Gog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, Gogmagog was a giant who was slain by the eponym ous Cornish hero Corin or Corineus.
		John Milton 's History of Britain gives this version of the story: :The Island, not yet Britain, but Albion, was in a manner desert and inhospitable, kept only by a remnant of Giants, whose excessive Force and Tyrannie had consumed the rest.
		To Corineus, Cornwall, as now we call it, fell by lot; the rather by him lik't, for that the hugest Giant s in Rocks and Caves were said to lurk still there; which kind of Monsters to deal with was his old exercise.
	www.vvvvitamins.com /article-Gog.html (1095 words)

	[KC] Chapter 5
		Well Corineus stood a head taller than all the other men of the day, was a finer warrior, more eloquent poet, and greater drinker.
		You see, Corineus saw that the dwarves could lead his men into the tunnels bellow the mountains, there they could avoid the dangers of passing overland and arrive at the place of the trolls all unseen.
		In the course of things his son became came and on the day of his coronation the blade Nodons was presented to him as a sign of his lordship and right as king.
	www.dragons-inn.org /Exp/Tales/kc/kc005.html (4627 words)

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		With him he brought his most able warrior and champion, Corineus, who fought the leader of the giant brood in single combat and eventually slew him by hurling him from a high rock into the sea.
		As a reward Corineus was given the western part of the island, which became named after him; Cornwall.
		His giants however only lasted a few years being made of wickerwork and pasteboard, in common with their sacrificial forebears, and were eventually destroyed by mice and rats.
	www.lordmayorsshow.org /hist/gogmagog.shtml (902 words)

	Geoffrey of Monmouth
		Locrin, smitten with love, would have gladly married her, at which Corineus was extremely incensed on account of the engagement which Locrin had entered into with him to marry his daughter.
		For he was resolved at least to carry on a private amour with her, since he could not live with her openly for fear of Corineus.
		In this manner he concealed her, and made frequent visits to her for seven years together, without the privity of any but his most intimate domestics; and all under a pretence of performing some secret sacrifices to his gods, by which he imposed on the credulity of every body.
	www.webmesh.co.uk /nice/geofpop2.htm (3626 words)

	II. The Mythical History of England. King Arthur and His Knights. Vol. III: The Age of Chivalry. Bulfinch, Thomas. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The island, not yet Britain, but Albion, was in a manner desert and inhospitable, occupied only by a remnant of the giant race whose excessive force and tyranny had destroyed the others.
		The Trojans encountered these and extirpated them, Corineus, in particular, signalizing himself by his exploits against them; from whom Cornwall takes its name, for that region fell to his lot, and there the hugest giants dwelt, lurking in rocks and caves, till Corineus rid the land of them.
		Locrine was married to Guendolen, the daughter of Corineus, but having seen a fair maid named Estrildis, who had been brought captive from Germany, he became enamoured of her, and had by her a daughter, whose name was Sabra.
	www.bartleby.com /182/102.html (2842 words)

	Locrinus - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Locrinus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This angered Corineus, an ally of his father Brutus, who had arranged a marriage between Locrinus and his own daughter, Queen Gwendolen.
		Locrinus became the father of a girl, Habren, by Estrildis, and a boy, Maddan, by Gwendolen.
		When Corineus finally died, Locrinus left Gwendolen and took Estrildis as his queen.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Locrinus.html (282 words)

	Locrine
		He sends a boy to fetch Estrild to the court: "She shall be queen in Guendolina's room" (V.ii.31).
		In pushing for vengeance, Thrasimachus appeals to her respect for their father Corineus: "His words to us stands always for a law" (V.iii.37).
		Corineus' spirit, Thrasimachus' exile, and her own divorce drive all remorse from her heart.
	www.wsu.edu:8001 /~delahoyd/shakespeare/locrine5.html (1246 words)

	Giants in Devon
		It was a long hard fight, Corineus was the more skillful but because of the giant's size found it hard to throw him.
		Taking his chance, Corineus grbbed the giant raised him aloft, carried him to the cliff edge and threw him over where his body was dashed to pieces on the jagged rocks below.
		It is assumed to be that of Goemagot, the giant who was thrown to his death by Corineus, Duke of Cornwall, during a wrestling match.
	mysticengland.freeservers.com /devon/giants.htm (765 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Corineus compared modern Christianity with the modern English monarchy: the forms of kingship have been retained, but the reality has been abandoned.
		It is what Corineus calls the myth, that abides; it is what he calls the modern and living thought that moves away.
		Those elements even in modernist Christianity which Corineus regards as vestigial, are the substance: what he takes for the 'real modern belief' is the shadow.
	www.ppcec.org /articles/CS%20Lewis%20-%20Myth%20became%20fact.html (1862 words)

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		The resemblance between Homer's "Peirithoos" and Brutus-the-Trojan is so striking, not merely in the form of the name, but also in the numerous details of their respective traditional history and adventures, that it establishes the great probability that they were one and the same personage.
		Was aided in his fight against the wild tribes of Aquitain and Alban by Corineus.
		His son was joint ruler with son of Corineus.
	www.jrbooksonline.com /pob/pob_app4.html (1283 words)

	The Corin Family of Cornwall
		The legendary origins of the Corins stem from the story of Corynaeus or Corineus, one of the Trojan remnant who accompanied Aeneas on his wanderings (Aeneid, Books 9 and 12).
		Corineus, who was of gigantic stature, wrestled with Gogmagog, and threw him over the cliffs into the sea.
		Corineus is said to have built a defensive wall between his territory and the rest of Albion, and the area became known as Corin's Wall, or Cornwall.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~davie/corin/Corin_A.html (998 words)

	Chapter Giant of Literature <i>to</i> Gibraltar of the New World of G by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		The legend is that Corineus wrestled with Goëmagot king of the Albion giants, raised the monster on his shoulder, and, carrying him to the top of a high rock, heaved him into the sea.
		At the beginning of the encounter, Corineus and the giant standing front to front held each other strongly in their arms, and panted aloud for breath; but Goëmagot presently grasping Corineus with all his might, broke three of his ribs, two on his right side and one on his left.
		At which Corineus, highly enraged, roused up his whole strength, and snatching up the giant, ran with him on his shoulders to the neighbouring cliff, and heaved him into the sea.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1117/14710/1.html (574 words)

	Locrine
		Corineus pitches a fit over this slight to his daughter Guendoline: "as thou lov'st thy life, so love thy wife.
		In the Historia as well as in the history plays of Shakespeare, "the effects of a bad king are seen in the immorality of his subjects, the disaffection and desertion of the nobles, civil war, and foreign invasion" (Gooch 26).
		Locrine complains that Corineus has been a hindrance for seven years between Estrild and him.
	www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/shakespeare/locrine4.html (1080 words)

	Legends of the Middle Ages - Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by H. A. Guerber eBook by BookRags
		He found himself involved in a fierce conflict, in which, owing to his personal valor and to the marvelous strength of Corineus, he came off victor in spite of the odds against him.
		We are told that the first germ of the nursery tale of Jack the Giant Killer is found in this poem, for Corineus, having chosen Corinea (Cornwall) as his own province, defeated there the giant Goemagot, who was twelve cubits high and pulled up an oak as if it were but a weed.
		Corineus, after a famous wrestling bout, flung this Goemagot into the sea, at a place long known as Lam Goemagot, but now called Plymouth.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/12455/201.html (594 words)

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		In this, Diana overshot her Oracle thus ending, Ipsis totius terr[ae] subditus orbis erit, That to the Race of Brute Kings of this Island, the whole Earth shall be subject.
		But Goffarius having drawn to his aid the whole Country of Gaul, at that time govern'd by twelve Kings, puts his Fortune to a second Trial; wherein the Trojans over-born by Multitude, are driven back, and besieged in their own Camp, which by good foresight was strongly situate.
		To Corineus, Cornwal, as now we call it, fell by Lot; the rather by him lik'd, for that the hugest Giants in Rocks and Caves were said to lurk still there; which kind of Monsters to deal with was his old Exercise.
	www.humanities.ualberta.ca /emls/iemls/work/etexts/histbrit.txt (15641 words)

	433-Glossary For Cornish Folklore on Gandolf dot Com
		According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, Corineus was the founder of Cornwall; he was Brutus's first general.
		Opie attributes the latter possibly to Corineus of Geoffrey of Monmouth.
		One of their leaders, Gogmagog, wrestled with Brutus's general Corineus near where Plymouth, Devon, is today.
	www.gandolf.com /reference/glossary.shtml (860 words)

	Locrine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Corineus, friend of Brutus, was a great warrior and he was given that part of the country now know as Cornwall.
		This matter was kept secret while Corineus lived, but after his death, Locrine divorced Gudenolen, and made Estrildis his queen.
		Gudendolen, all in rage, departed to Cornwall, where Madan, her son, lived, who had been brought up by Corineus, his grandfather.
	www2.aphelion-webzine.com /poetry/locrine.htm (267 words)

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