In Arthurian contexts, "Logres" is often used to describe the
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): It was described by
Chrétien de Troyes as "The Land of
Ogres" (''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. ==Use in modern fiction==