A little lower down the river is the wooded slope
of Polgerran, and an ancient chapel stands above
it. Gerran, or Geraint, was King of Cornwall, and
married Enid, daughter of the Count -in -Chief of
Caerleon. Tennyson has revivified her charming
story. After the death of Arthur, he seems to have
been elected Pendragon, or high king, over the
Britons, and his life was spent in fighting the Saxons
'along the frontier from the Roman wall down to the
Severn. S. Senan, of the Land's End, was on good
terms with him, and there is a story told in the life
of that saint concerning Geraint The king had a
fleet of six score vessels in the Severn, and the
fatal battle in which he fell was at Langport on the
Parret, whither at that time vessels could ascend.
His palace was at Dingerrein, in the parish of
S. Gerrans in Roseland. His tomb is shown at Carn
Point, where he was said to lie in a golden boat with
silver oars, an interesting instance of persistence of
tradition in associating him with ships. When the
tumulus was broken into, in 1855, by treasure-seekers,
a kistvaen was discovered and bones, but no precious
metal. As Geraint fell at Langport he would hardly
have been brought to Cornwall for interment. But
there were two other princes of Cornwall of the same
name, who reigned later.
The long Restronguet Creek enters the estuary of the Fal where that estuary becomes wide and a fine sheet of water. The peninsula is Roseland, the old Rosinis—Moorland Isle.
Restronguet Creek has been choked with the wash coming down from the mines and kaolin works. At
