thumb|right|upright=1.5|Flight of King Gradlon, by Évariste Vital Luminais|E. V. Luminais, 1884 (Musée des Beaux-Arts, [[Quimper)]] Ys (pronounced ), also spelled Is or Kêr-Is in Breton, and '''Ville d'Ys''' ("City of Ys") in French, is a mythical city on the coast of Brittany that was swallowed up by the ocean. Most versions of the legend place the city in the Baie de Douarnenez.
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- Etymology
- The legend
- Development of the legend
- Literary versions
- Oral versions
- English language versions
- The devil in Souvestre's version
- Ys' return
- Adaptations in the arts
- Music
- Historicity
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thumb|right|upright=1.5|Flight of King Gradlon, by Évariste Vital Luminais|E. V. Luminais, 1884 (Musée des Beaux-Arts, [[Quimper)]] Ys (pronounced ), also spelled Is or Kêr-Is in Breton, and '''Ville d'Ys' ("City of Ys") in French, is a mythical city on the coast of Brittany that was swallowed up by the ocean. Most versions of the legend place the city in the Baie de Douarnenez.
==Etymology== thumb|Lyrics and sheet music for the Breton language|Breton [[gwerz "" ("King Gradlon and the City of Ys", 1850). This uses the archaic spelling for the city of Ys.]] In the original Breton, the city receives the name of , which translates as "low city". is the Breton word for "city", and is related to the Welsh , Cornish ker- and more distantly the Irish cathair'', while / is related to Welsh , Scottish Gaelic and Irish ("low").