Mount Etna otherworldly associations of the great, volcanic mountain of their new home. Mediaevalist Roger Sherman Loomis quotes passages from the works of Gervase of Tilbury and Caesarius of Heisterbach (dating from the late twelfth century) featuring accounts of Arthur's returning of a lost horse which had strayed into his subterranean kingdom beneath Etna. Caesarius quotes as his authority for the story a certain canon Godescalcus of Bonn, who considered it a matter of historic fact of the time of Emperor Henry's conquest of Sicily "circa" 1194. Caesarius employs in his account the Latin phrase "in monte Gyber" ("within Etna") to describe
Italian cruiser Etna by four QF 6-inch guns, two on each side amidships. "Etna" was built by the Castellammare shipyard; her keel was laid down on 19 January 1883 and her completed hull was launched on 26 September 1885. After fitting-out work was finished, she was commissioned into the Italian fleet on 3 December 1887. "Etna" served in the "Squadra Permamente" (Permanent Squadron) from her commissioning to 1893 and then served in North and South American waters until the end of 1895. During this period, "Etna" and the protected cruisers and represented Italy at the international naval review in New York, held at