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{{short description|Fighter of giants in medieval British legend}}
{{distinguish|text=the character in the ''Aeneid'', [[Corynaeus]]}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| name         = Corineus
| image        = Corineus the Giant in Guildhall 1859.png
| caption      = One of two wooden figures in the [[Guildhall, London|Guildhall in London]], carved in 1709, that replaced wicker and pasteboard effigies traditionally carried in the [[Lord Mayor's Show]]. They represented [[Gogmagog (giant)|Gogmagog]] and Corineus, and were later known as [[Gog and Magog]]. Both were destroyed in the [[London Blitz]] in 1940; new ones were carved in 1953.
| succession   = [[List of legendary rulers of Cornwall|Ruler of Cornwall]]
| predecessor  = First
| successor    = [[Queen Gwendolen]]
| issue        = [[Queen Gwendolen]]
}}
'''Corineus''', in [[Great Britain in the Middle Ages|medieval British]] [[English mythology|legend]], was a prodigious warrior, a fighter of [[giant]]s, and the [[eponym]]ous founder of [[Cornwall]].

== ''History of the Kings of Britain'' ==
In [[Geoffrey of Monmouth]]'s [[pseudo-history]] ''[[Historia Regum Britanniae|History of the Kings of Britain]]'' (1136), Corineus led the descendants of the [[Troy|Trojans]] who fled with [[Antenor (mythology)|Antenor]] after the [[Trojan War]] and settled on the coasts of the [[Tyrrhenian Sea]].{{NoteTag|Some versions of the ''History of the Kings of Britain'' specify that this was four generations after Antenor.<ref name="Tolkien Gordon Davis 1967 p. 71">{{cite book | last1=Tolkien | first1=J.R.R. | last2=Gordon | first2=E.V. | last3=Davis | first3=N. | title=Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | publisher=Oxford University Press | publication-place=Oxford | year=1967 | isbn=978-0-19-151819-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9wZREAAAQBAJ&pg=PA71 | access-date=8 May 2022 | page=71}}</ref>}} He is described as "a modest man in matters of council, and of great courage and boldness", his giant-fighting prowess is also described, and later reinforced by boasts of having killed "heaps" of Tyrrhenian giants.

After [[Brutus of Troy|Brutus]], a descendant of the Trojan prince [[Aeneas]], had been exiled from Italy and liberated the enslaved Trojans in Greece, he encountered Corineus and his people, who joined him in his travels. In [[Gaul]], Corineus provoked a war with [[Goffarius Pictus]], king of [[Gallia Aquitania|Aquitania]], by hunting in his forests without permission; in the ensuing battle, Corineus single-handedly killed thousands with a battle-axe.{{NoteTag|Brutus begins the battle using a sword, but loses it and by good luck finds the battle-axe which he uses through the rest of the battle.}} After defeating Goffarius, the Trojans crossed to the island of [[Albion]], which Brutus renamed Britain after himself. Corineus settled in Cornwall, which was then inhabited by [[giant]]s. Brutus and his army killed most of them, but their leader [[Gogmagog (folklore)|Goemagog]] was kept alive for a wrestling match with Corineus. During the fight, Goemagog broke three of Corineus' ribs; enraged, he picked Goemagog up, ran to the coast, and threw the giant from a high rock into the sea, with the craggy rocks below tearing him to pieces.<ref name="HRB 1">{{cite wikisource | author=[[Geoffrey of Monmouth]] | wslink=Six Old English Chronicles/Geoffrey's British History | chapter=Book 1 | plaintitle=[[Historia Regum Britanniae]] | at=Chapters 12–16 }}</ref>

Corineus was the first of the [[List of legendary rulers of Cornwall|legendary rulers of Cornwall]], which was named after him. After Brutus died the rest of Britain was divided between Brutus' three sons, [[Locrinus]] ([[Loegria]]), [[Kamber]] ([[Cambria]]) and [[Albanactus]] ([[Alba]]). Locrinus agreed to marry Corineus's daughter [[Queen Gwendolen|Gwendolen]], but fell in love instead with [[Estrildis]], a captured German princess. Corineus threatened war in response to this affront, and to pacify him Locrinus married Gwendolen, but kept Estrildis as his secret mistress. After Corineus died Locrinus divorced Gwendolen and married Estrildis, and Gwendolen responded by raising an army in Cornwall and making war against her ex-husband. Locrinus was killed in battle, and Gwendolen threw Estrildis and her daughter, [[Hafren|Sabren]], into the [[River Severn]].<ref name="HRB 2">{{cite wikisource | author=[[Geoffrey of Monmouth]] | wslink=Six Old English Chronicles/Geoffrey's British History | chapter=Book 2 | plaintitle=[[Historia Regum Britanniae]] | at=Chapters 1–5 }}</ref>

== ''Aeneid'' and other sources ==
Geoffrey probably took the name from the character [[Corynaeus]] in the ''[[Aeneid]]'', a Trojan follower of [[Aeneas]].<ref name="WCD Corineus" /> Archbishop [[Michael Joseph Curley]] suggests that this name was chosen by Geoffrey due to its similarity to the word Cornwall, and his "naive (or ironic) fondness for [[eponym]]y as a form of historical research".<ref name="Curley 1994">{{cite web | title=Geoffrey of Monmouth | first=Michael J. | last=Curley | author-link=Michael Joseph Curley | year=1994 | publication-place=New York | publisher=Twayne Publishers | pages=17–18 | url=https://archive.org/details/geoffreyofmonmou0000curl/page/16/mode/2up }}</ref>

[[File:Expedición de Bruto a Aquitania (recortado).jpg|thumb|Corineus (upper centre) sailing with Brutus to Gaul in a {{circa|1475}} tapestry now in the [[Cathedral of the Savior of Zaragoza]].]]

Curley also suggests there is a parallel between Corineus and [[Hercules]] in [[Lucan]]'s ''[[Pharsalia]]'', who defeated the giant [[Antaeus]] in a wrestling match by lifting him from the earth, the source of his strength.<ref name="Curley 1994"/>

Geoffrey's main source for the ''History of the Kings of Britain'' was the ''[[Historia Brittonum]]''.<ref>{{cite book | title=The Vision of History in Early Britain | first=Robert W. | last=Hanning | publisher=[[Columbia University Press]] | publication-place=New York and London | year=1966 | page=138 | isbn=9780231028264 | url=https://archive.org/details/visionofhistoryi0000hann/page/138/mode/2up }}</ref> It does not mention Corineus, but two parts of the ''Historia'' were used as sources for Corineus' location on "the shores" of the [[Tyrrhenian Sea]], where he is found by Brutus. The first is the ''Historia''{{'}}s account of Brutus' banishment: unlike the ''History of the Kings of Britain'', where Brutus immediately goes to Greece, Brutus instead first travels to "the islands of the Tyrrhenian Sea", where, instead of Corineus, he finds Greek colonists living, who expel him due to [[Aeneas]]' killing of [[Turnus]].<ref>{{cite book | title=The Vision of History in Early Britain | first=Robert W. | last=Hanning | publisher=[[Columbia University Press]] | publication-place=New York and London | year=1966 | page=104 | isbn=9780231028264 | url=https://archive.org/details/visionofhistoryi0000hann/page/104/mode/2up }}</ref>{{NoteTag|The same passage can also be interpreted as Brutus travelling first to the Tyrrhenian islands, and then to Greece, where he is expelled.<ref name="Summerfield 2011 pp. 85–102">{{cite journal | last=Summerfield | first=Thea | title=Filling the Gap: Brutus in the Historia Brittonum, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle MS F, and Geoffrey of Monmouth | journal=The Medieval Chronicle | publisher=Brill | volume=7 | year=2011 | issn=1567-2336 | jstor=48579280 | pages=89 | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/48579280 | access-date=8 May 2022}}</ref>}} The second is a variant of the story of [[Goídel Glas]], in which the hero travels from Egypt to Iberia via a sequence of named places – [[Africa (Roman province)|Africa]], then [[Ras Lanuf|Aras Philaenorum]], [[Chott el Jerid|Lacus Salinarum]], between [[Skikda|Rusicada]] and [[Aurès Mountains|the Mountains of Azaria]], along [[River Malvam|the River Malua]] through [[Mauretania]] to the [[Pillars of Hercules]], then the Tyrrhenian Sea – Geoffrey uses precisely the same sequence of locations for Brutus' journey after getting his prophecy from [[Diana (mythology)|Diana]], and even explains the backtracking from the Pillars of Hercules to the Tyrrhenian Sea by saying Brutus was fleeing from [[Siren (mythology)|Sirens]]; it is at this point in the story of the ''History of the Kings of Britain'' that Brutus finds Corineus on "the shores" of the Tyrrhenian Sea.<ref>{{cite web| first=Keith J. | last=Fitzpatrick-Matthews | year=2020 | title=Genealogia Brittonum: the complete Historia Brittonum  | url=http://www.kmatthews.org.uk/history/hb/historia_brittonum1.html | access-date=2022-10-25 }}</ref><ref>{{cite thesis | first=David Norman | last=Dumville | author-link=David Dumville | date=1975 | title=Textual History of the Welsh-Latin ''Historia Brittonum'' | degree=PhD | publisher=[[University of Edinburgh]] | hdl=1842/8972 | url=https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.615330 | access-date=2022-10-25 | archive-date=25 October 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025204216/https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.615330 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last=Hammer | first=Jacob | title=Remarks on the Sources and Textual History of Geoffrey of Monmouth's ''Historia Regum Britanniae'' | journal=Bulletin of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America | publisher=Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America | volume=2 | issue=2 | year=1944 | issn=0376-2327 | jstor=24725056 | page=510 | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/24725056 }}</ref>

== Gogmagog's Leap ==
{{see also|Gogmagog (giant)|Hill figure#Plymouth Hoe giants}}
The fight between Corineus and [[Gogmagog (giant)|Gogmagog]] is described in the ''[[Historia Regum Britanniae|History of the Kings of Britain]]'' as ending at a place called {{lang|la|Saltus Goemagog}} or {{gloss|Goemagog's Leap}}, which Geoffrey says still retained the name.<ref name="HRB 1"/> [[John Milton]]'s ''[[The History of Britain (Milton)|The History of Britain]]'' (1670) referred to the place as ''Langoëmagog'', {{gloss|the Giants leap}}, which is sometimes changed to ''Langoënagog'' or ''Langnagog''.<ref>{{cite web| title=History of the Lord Mayor's Show: Gog and Magog | url=https://lordmayorsshow.london/history/gog-and-magog | accessdate=2022-11-05 | publisher=[[Lord Mayor's Show]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| title=Gog and Magog | url=http://www.lordmayorsshow.org/hist/gogmagog.shtml | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010209025355/http://www.lordmayorsshow.org/hist/gogmagog.shtml | archivedate=2001-02-09 | publisher=[[Lord Mayor's Show]] }}</ref> The [[Middle English]] prose ''[[Brut Chronicle|Brut]]'' ({{circa|1419}}) places their fight "at Totttenes" ([[Totnes]], [[Devon]]), where Corineus and Brutus had landed in the ''History of the Kings of Britain'',<ref>{{citation|editor-last=Brie|editor-first=Friedrich W. D.|title=The Brut or the Chronicles of England, edited from Ms. Raw. B171, Bodleian Library, &c.|series=Early English Text Society |volume=131 |id=(part 1) |place=London |publisher=Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner |date=1906–1908 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ULELAQAAIAAJ | chapter=Chapter 4 | pages=10–11 }}</ref> while ''[[Holinshed's Chronicles]]'' (1577) placed the "leape of Gogmagog" at [[Dover]].<ref>Holinshed (1587) ''Hist.'', I, 10: {{citation|last1=Kewes |first1=Paulina |last2=Archer |first2=Ian W. |last3=Heal |first3=Felicity |author-link3=Felicity Heal |title=The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles |publisher=OUP Oxford |year=2013|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eIxrIRTtD1kC&pg=PA534|page=534|isbn=9780199565757}}</ref>

Researcher [[Peter Bartrum]] suggests that the story may have been based on [[hill figure]]s of two giants fighting carved into the grass at [[Plymouth Hoe]].<ref name="WCD Corineus"/> The first known mention of these figures was in 1495, and contemporary records exist of them being periodically re-cut and cleaned, referring to them as Gogmagog.<ref name="br4">{{cite book|last=Bracken|first=C. W.|title=A History of Plymouth and her Neighbours|publisher=Underhill|location=Plymouth|year=1931|pages=4}}</ref> [[Antiquary]] [[Richard Carew (antiquary)|Richard Carew]] believed that the fight may have begun near Totnes, but ended at Plymouth Hoe, with the figures depicting Corineus and Gogmagog; he described them in his ''Survey of Cornwall'' (1602): "upon the Hawe at Plymmouth, there is cut out in the ground, the pourtrayture of two men, the one bigger, the other lesser, with Clubbes in their hands, (whom they terme Gog-Magog) and (as I have learned) it is renewed by order of the Townesmen, when cause requireth, which should inferre the same to bee a monument of some moment."<ref name="Carew">{{cite book | first=Richard | last=Carew | author-link=Richard Carew (antiquary) | title=The Survey of Cornwall. And An Epistle concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue | url=https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9878/pg9878.html | year=1769 | orig-date=1602 | publisher=E. Law and J. Hewett }}</ref> Later historians such as [[John Allen Giles]] followed this suggestion as the most likely location.<ref name="WCD Corineus">{{cite encyclopedia | title=Corineus | encyclopedia=A Welsh Classical Dictionary | volume=4 | first=Peter C. | last=Bartrum | author-link=Peter Bartrum | orig-year=1993 | year=2009 | editor=MPS | publisher=[[National Library of Wales]] | page=166 | url=https://www.library.wales/fileadmin/fileadmin/docs_gwefan/casgliadau/Drych_Digidol/Deunydd_print/Welsh_Classical_Dictionary/04_C2.pdf }}</ref>

The figures were destroyed by the construction of the [[Royal Citadel, Plymouth|Royal Citadel]] in 1665.<ref>{{citation|editor-last=Hunt |editor-first=Robert |title=The Giants: Corineus and Gogmagog |work=Popular Romances of the West of England |edition=3rd |year=1903 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PapZAAAAMAAJ |pages=44–46}}</ref> In 2021, artist Charles Newington painted Corineus and Gogmagog on a grassy bank below the Citadel, inspired by the earlier figures and the story of Corineus and Gogmagog.<ref name="Elmes 2021">{{cite web | last=Elmes | first=Sarah | title=Giant figures of Gogmagog and Corineus appear on the Hoe | website=PlymouthLive | publisher=[[The Herald (Plymouth)|The Herald]] | date=10 June 2021 | url=https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/history/giant-figures-gogmagog-corineus-appear-5510055 | access-date=7 May 2022}}</ref>

== Later traditions ==
The tale is preserved in the works of later writers, including [[Michael Drayton]] and [[John Milton]].

[[John of Hauville]]'s ''[[Architrenius]]'' ({{circa|1184}}) was dedicated to Archbishop [[Walter de Coutances]], who claimed descent from Corineus.<ref>{{cite book | first=Winthrop | last=Wetherbee | chapter=Introduction | title=Architrenius | year=1994 | publisher=Cambridge University Press | isbn=0521405432 | pages=xxvi–xxvii | chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/johannesdehauvil0000joha/page/n29 }}</ref> The ''Architrenius'' changes Corineus into a greater figure than Brutus (who it says accompanied Corineus as his [[Achates]]), and describes him as "the world-conqueror", a second [[Hercules]], who fought in the [[Trojan War]]: "the terror of [[Achilles]] and the [[Atrides]], the cutter-down of giants and batterer of monsters". While "sojourning on the [[Tyrrhenian Sea|Tyrrhenian shores]], Corineus destroyed the limbs of giants with a bone-crushing embrace. He was himself a giant, not in body but in his indomitable heroism. Though confined to medium stature, and with limbs not disproportionately thick, he seemed to assume a Titanic stature, massive and terrifying."<ref name="Architrenius 15">{{cite book | translator-first=Winthrop | translator-last=Wetherbee | chapter=Chapter 15: Gawain's speech to Architrenius concerning Corineus | title=Architrenius | year=1994 | publisher=Cambridge University Press | isbn=0521405432 | pages=136–139 | chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/johannesdehauvil0000joha/page/136 }}</ref> After massacring the Aquitanians he sets sail for Britain "favoured by gods and winds, and guided by [[Diana (mythology)|Diana]] to his destined corner of the world, he enters safe harbour on the Cornish coast at Totnes";<ref>{{cite book | translator-first=Winthrop | translator-last=Wetherbee | chapter=Chapter 16: The arrival of Brutus and Corineus in England and an encounter with Giants | title=Architrenius | year=1994 | publisher=Cambridge University Press | isbn=0521405432 | pages=138–139 | chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/johannesdehauvil0000joha/page/138 }}</ref> Cornwall is described as "flowing with milk and honey. Hence the place, at first named Corineia, over the course of time assumed the corrupted name of Cornubia."<ref name="Architrenius 15"/> Arthur is later described as a descendant of Corineus.<ref>{{cite book | translator-first=Winthrop | translator-last=Wetherbee | chapter=Chapter 17: The birth of Arthur, and the origins of him to whom the book is addressed | title=Architrenius | year=1994 | publisher=Cambridge University Press | isbn=0521405432 | pages=140–141 | chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/johannesdehauvil0000joha/page/140 }}</ref>

The 13th century [[Prose Merlin|Prose ''Merlin'']] calls the character Corneus, a descendant of giants, who was "a mervilouse knyght, and was moche and stronge". In this version, he and Brutus were two barons who fled the destruction of Troy, but while Brutus travelled to Britain, Corneus travelled to Brittany instead, where he built towns and castles, and gave his name to [[Cornouaille]]. Corneus' descendants were the giants who troubled the Britons, and they survived until the time of [[King Arthur]].<ref>{{cite book | editor-last=Wheatley | editor-first=Henry Benjamin | title=Merlin, Or, The Early History of King Arthur: A Prose Romance | volume=2 | publisher=Early English Text Society | year=1866 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yUEbTB5nKNYC&pg=PA147 | page=147}}</ref>

''[[Locrine]]'' (1595), a play [[Shakespeare apocrypha|attributed to Shakespeare]], has Corineius {{sic}} as a major character, one of two brothers of Brutus, along with Assarachus, and is father to [[Queen Gwendolen|Gwendoline]] and Thrasimachus. Corineius is described as being found by Brutus at "the fields of [[Laestrygonians|Lestrigon]]", and subsequently having fought Gathelus, the brother of [[Goffar the Pict|Goffarius of Gaul]]. He lives more than eighty-seven years, dying from a lingering wound he had received in battle with [[Humber the Hun]], and returns as a ghost to witness [[Locrinus|Locrine]]'s downfall.<ref>{{Gutenberg book | no=1548 | name=Locrine; Mucedorus }}</ref>

Corineus is also a major character in [[Henry Chettle]] and [[John Day (dramatist)|John Day]]'s [[Lost literary work|lost play]] ''The Conquest of Brute with the First Finding of the Bath'' which was performed by [[Admiral's Men|the Lord Admiral's Men]] at [[The Rose (theatre)|the Rose]] in December 1598.<ref>{{cite book | last1=Wiggins | first1=Martin | last2=Richardson | first2=Catherine | title=British Drama, 1533–1642: 1598–1602 | volume=4 | publisher=Oxford University Press | series=British Drama, 1533-1642: A Catalogue | year=2012 | isbn=978-0-19-926574-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qRk2BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA79 | page=79 }}</ref>

[[Oliver Mathews]]' ''Towne of Sallop'' (1616) refers to "Troenius, Duke of Cornwall, who was afterward called Coreneus".<ref>{{cite book | first=Oliver | last=Mathews | author-link=Oliver Mathews | title=The Scituation, Foundation, and Auncient Names of the Famous Towne of Sallop | orig-year=1616 | year=1877 | publication-place=Shrewsbury | publisher=T. W. Bickley & Son | url=https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005656E#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=36&xywh=-786%2C0%2C4323%2C2261 | page=17 | access-date=26 December 2022 | archive-date=26 December 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226151925/https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005656E#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=36&xywh=-786%2C0%2C4323%2C2261 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="WCD Corineus"/> [[Richard Williams Morgan]] expanded on this in ''The British Kymry'' (1857), calling him Troenius, and saying that he was assigned the "Western Keryn or promotory" of Britain (from [[Torbay]] to [[Land's End]]) by Brutus, and that "from the Keryn, Troenius changed his name into Keryn or Corineus". Morgan also attempted to explain Brutus' backtracking from the [[Pillars of Hercules]] to the Tyrrhenian Sea, by saying that he passed through the Pillars of Hercules, and came across Troenius on the south shore of Spain, where he was ruling four Trojan colonies, claiming that the Atlantic was then called the Tyrrhenian Ocean. He described Troenius as [[Duchy|sovereign duke]] of Cornwall, with the same prerogatives over his land as the kings of Loegria, Cambria and Albany had over theirs, and said that Troenius was consigned the guardianship of his daughter [[Queen Gwendolen|Gwendolen]]'s son [[Maddan]].<ref name="Morgan 1857">{{cite book | last=Morgan | first=R. W. | author-link=Richard Williams Morgan | title=The British Kymry, Or Britons of Cambria | publication-place=Ruthin | publisher=I. Clarke | year=1857 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VOI9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA32 | pages=32–34}}</ref>

As to Corineus's stature, he is represented as being the largest of Brutus's crew in the [[Middle English]] prose ''Brut''.<ref>{{citation|editor-last=Brie|editor-first=Friedrich W. D.|title=The Brut or the Chronicles of England ... from Ms. Raw. B171, Bodleian Library, &c.|series=EETS o.s.|volume=131 (part 1)|place=London|date=1906–1908|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ULELAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA4|pages=4, 10–11}}</ref> ''[[Holinshed's Chronicles]]'' comment that Corineus was not a giant, but in the 1587 edition mistakenly claims the ''[[Architrenius]]'' describes Corineus as a man 12 cubits (18 feet) tall.<ref>Holinshed (1587) [http://english.nsms.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/texts.php?text1=1587_0060 ''Hist.'', I, 5]</ref>

A local folk tradition says that Corineus founded the city of [[Quimper]], the ancient capital of [[Cornouaille]] in France.<ref name="Cambry 1795">{{cite book | last=Cambry | first=J. | chapter=District de Quimper | title=Voyage dans le Finistère | publication-place=Paris | publisher=Cercle-Social  | volume=3 | year=1795 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ifNaAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 | language=fr | page=1 }}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Cornwall}}
* [[Corinius]]
* [[Cornish wrestling]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite journal|last=Clark|first=John|year=2016|title=Trojans at Totnes and Giants on the Hoe: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historical Fiction and Geographical Reality|journal=Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association|publisher=The Devonshire Association|volume=148|pages=89–130|issn=0309-7994|url=https://devonassoc.org.uk/devoninfo/trojans-at-totnes-2016/|access-date=2022-05-09}}

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