Logres

From Zeugma

Regarding the Director:

"Will he die?"

"He will be taken away, I believe. Back into Deep Heaven. It has happened to one or two people, perhaps about six, since the world began."

"What--what is he?"

"He's a man, my dear. And he is the Pendragon of Logres. This house, all of us here, and Mr. Bultitude and Pinch, are all that's left of the Logres: all the rest has become merely Britain." (195)

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According to wikipedia, Logres is the place where King Arthur resides in Britain. Ironically enough, the exact same information (verbatim) appeared on dictionary.com!  According to pantheon.org, it is also the setting for Lancelot and Perceval. "The name comes from the Welsh Lloegyr which Geoffrey of Monmouth turns into "Loegria" which in turn mutates into "Logres""(Rise 1).    -alw

 

 

Logres, King Arthur's realm and area of rule, is now known as England.  England is also the setting for That Hideous Strength.

Interestingly enough, I found this bit of information when I was researching "Logres".  Not so much tied to the book or Arthurian information, this is tied to the class theme nicely.

Logres is a new-generation database system integrating features from deductive and object-oriented database. The data model of Logres supports structural and semantic complexity through a rich collection of concepts from object-oriented models. The rule language allows for the manipulation of complex objects, the generation of new objects, and the definition of passive and active constraints. The application of set of rules to database states is controlled by means of qualifiers, which dictate the side effects of rules; qualifiers are the unique procedural feature of Logres, otherwise a fully declarative language.

S. Todd