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Fortunate Isles |
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Fortunate Isles or Isles of the Blest, in classical and Celtic legend, islands in the Western Ocean. There the souls of favored mortals were received by the gods and lived happily in a paradise. Belief in the islands long persisted, and the Canaries and the Madeira Islands were sometimes identified with them. Fortunate Isles (Happy Isles) otherworld for heroes favored by gods. [Gk. Myth.: NCE, 861] See : Heaven |
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But, all the same, the reader will admit that it must be lonely for me, and not another sister left to take pity on me, all somewhere happily settled down in the Fortunate Isles. |
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