CORINEUS

legendary eponymous hero of Cornwall. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae (113539), he was a Trojan warrior who accompanied Brutus the Trojan, the legendary founder of Britain, to England. Corineus killed Gogmagog (Gomagot), the greatest of the giants inhabiting Cornwall, by hurling him from a cliff. A cliff near Totnes, Devon, is still called Giant's Leap.