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Ys

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Ys (a mythical sunken city in Brittany, France)

1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques (1993 edition), Plon, chapter IX, page 89; translated 1973 by John and Doreen Weightman as Tristes Tropiques (2011 edition), Penguin BooksThe bay at Rio eats right into the heart of the city: you land in the centre, as if the other half, like the fabled town of Ys, had already been engulfed by waves.

Synonyms: Ker Ys