Editing Logres (section)

==Geographical area in various Arthurian works==
In Arthurian contexts, "Logres" is often used to describe the [[Celtic Britons|Brittonic]] territory roughly corresponding to the borders of England before the area was taken by the [[Anglo-Saxons]]. According to [[Geoffrey of Monmouth]]'s influential but largely fictional history ''[[Historia Regum Britanniae]]'', the realm was named after the legendary king [[Locrinus]], the oldest son of [[Brutus of Troy]]. In his ''Historia'', Geoffrey uses the word "Loegria" to describe a province containing most of England excluding [[Cornwall]] and possibly [[Northumberland]], as in this example from section iv.20 (from the [[Penguin Classics]] translation by [[Lewis Thorpe]]):

{{blockquote|Parishes were apportioned off, [[Deira]] being placed under the Metropolitan of [[York]], along with [[Alba]]ny, for the great River [[Humber]] divides these two from Loegria.  Loegria itself was placed under the Metropolitan of [[London]], along with Cornwall. The [[Severn]] divides these last two provinces from Kambria or [[Wales]], which last was placed under the [[Caerleon|City of Legions]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Geoffrey of Monmouth |author-link=Geoffrey of Monmouth |translator= Lewis G. M. Thorpe |translator-link= Lewis Thorpe |title=The History of the Kings of Britain |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iy5l4TUgqGYC&q=%22divides+these+two+from+Loegria%22 |year=1966 |publisher=Penguin |location=Harmondsworth, UK |isbn=9780140441703 |page=125 |oclc=3370598}}</ref>}}

It was described by [[Chrétien de Troyes]] as "The Land of [[Ogre]]s" (''l'Ogres'') in his poem ''[[Perceval, the Story of the Grail]]''. In various French works, Logres appears as the name of the land or the capital city (otherwise [[Camelot]]), its inhabitants can be known as either Loegrwys or Lloegrwys. Translating and compiling such texts for his ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'', [[Thomas Malory]] conflated Logres with his contemporary [[Kingdom of England]] and usually used just "England" instead, except for the names of some of the [[Knights of the Round Table]]. In some medieval German works, Logres is the personal domain of [[Gawain]], as established by [[Wolfram von Eschenbach]].