• The History of the Britons (Latin: Historia Brittonum) is a purported history of early Britain written around 828 that survives in numerous recensions...
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    two early medieval historical sources, the Annales Cambriae and the Historia Brittonum, but these date to 300 years after he is supposed to have lived, and...
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    founder and first king of Britain. This legend first appears in the Historia Brittonum, an anonymous 9th-century historical compilation to which commentary...
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    invading white dragon, at Dinas Emrys. The story continues in the Historia Brittonum, written around AD 829, where Gwrtheyrn, King of the Britons is frustrated...
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  • He has traditionally been attributed with the authorship of the Historia Brittonum, based on the prologue affixed to that work. This attribution is widely...
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    447, suggesting that these dates are calculated approximations. The Historia Brittonum (History of the Britons) was attributed until recently to Nennius...
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  • Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, entry for 547. Historia Brittonum, ch. 56. Newton, p. 68 Historia Brittonum, ch. 57. Historia Brittonum, ch. 63. Morris-Jones, John (1918)...
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    similarity of pronunciation. She is first mentioned in the 9th century Historia Brittonum (traditionally attributed to Nennius) as the lovely unnamed daughter...
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    invention of medieval Christian writers. The 9th century Latin work Historia Brittonum (History of the Britons) says that Ireland was settled by three groups...
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    Hispania (Spain)", attested in a passage (§ 13) in the 9th-century work Historia Brittonum ("The History of the Britons") by Nennius. As A.G. van Hamel has suggested...
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    geographical onomasticon composed in Latin in the ninth century, the Historia Brittonum. A passing reference in the elegy Gwarchan Cynfelyn (7th century)...
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    figure. The first definite mention of Arthur appears circa 828 in the Historia Brittonum, where he is presented as a military leader fighting against the invading...
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  • This is an incomplete list of the wars and battles between the Anglo-Saxons who later formed into the Kingdom of England and the Britons (the pre-existing...
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    earliest surviving version of the story is found in the 9th century Historia Brittonum. It describes an unnamed Scythian nobleman, driven from his kingdom...
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    was a historical person, his name first appears in the 9th-century Historia Brittonum, where he is mentioned as having participated in the battle alongside...
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    manuscripts, the only medieval work to make use of it was the 9th-century Historia Brittonum, which nonetheless assured it a wide diffusion. The Table itself is...
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  • Arthur's dog Cabal's pawprint, preserved in rock, in the Latin tract of Historia Brittonum (9th century). The print was preserved in rock while the dog was pursuing...
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  • centuries later in the semi-mythological histories of the Historia Brittonum and the Historia Regum Britanniae. Though a popular cautionary tale in medieval...
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    Ambrosius, taken from one of his primary sources, the early 9th-century Historia Brittonum attributed to Nennius. In the latter account, Ambrosius was discovered...
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  • one week. The earliest surviving reference to Partholón is in the Historia Brittonum, a 9th-century British Latin compilation attributed to Nennius. It...
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    Conquestu Britanniae, Bede's 8th-century Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, the 9th-century Historia Brittonum ascribed to Nennius, the 10th-century...
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    independently in the legends of the Britons, beginning with the 9th-century Historia Brittonum. Eventually, he was transformed by Geoffrey of Monmouth into the uncle...
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    Faust's name and persona remains unclear.[dubious – discuss] In the Historia Brittonum, Faustus is the offspring of an incestuous marriage between king Vortigern...
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  • divorce his Saxon bride. The pedigree of king Aella of Deira given in Historia Brittonum includes the name "Sguerthing" as great-grandfather of the king, and...
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    Eoppa, grandson of Esa, and great-grandson of Ingwy. Likewise, the Historia Brittonum calls him as the son of Eoppa and the first king of Berneich or Bernicia...
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    of ancient British texts, including the ninth century Historia Brittonum. The Historia Brittonum is the earliest known source of the story of Brutus of...
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    reliability for this period are unclear, and in the early ninth-century Historia Brittonum, which adds a little more possibly reliable information to Bede's...
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    in their flag design, including Cardiff, the Welsh capital. In the Historia Brittonum, there is a narrative in which Vortigern (Welsh: Gwrtheyrn), King...
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  • as father of Penda, with no further detail. Pybba is said by the Historia Brittonum to have had 12 sons. Cearl, a Mercian king, is mentioned by Bede,...
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    Blwchfardd, and Cian Gwenith Gwawd ("Cian Wheat of Song"), in the Historia Brittonum, and is also mentioned in the collection of poems known as Y Gododdin...
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