Loegria or Loʹgres

England is so called by Geoffrey of Monmouth, from Logrine, eldest son of the mythical King Brute.

“His [Brute’s] three sons divide the land by consent; Locrine had the middle part, Loëgra …”—Milton: History of England, bk. i.

“Thus Cambria to her right, what would herself restore,

And rather than to lose Loegria, looks for more.”

Drayton: Polyolbion, iv.

“Il est ecrit quʹil est une heure

Ou tont le royaume de Logres,

Qui jadis fut la terre es ogres,

Sera detruit par cette lance.”

Chretien de Troyes.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.