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	Historia Britonum - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Historia Britonum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Historia Britonum, or The History of the Britons, is a historical work that was first written sometime shortly after AD 820, and exists in several recensions of varying difference.
		Traditionally, the Historia Britonum is ascribed to be the work of Nennius, a Welsh monk of the ninth century.
		There are a number of works that are frequently associated with the Historia Britonum, in part because some of them first appear with the text preserved in the Harleian manuscript, and partly because whenever the Historia Britonum is studied, these sources eventually are mentioned.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Historia-Britonum.html (2222 words)

	Historia Britonum -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Historia Britonum, or The History of the Britons, is a historical work that was first written sometime shortly after AD (Click link for more info and facts about 820) 820, and exists in several recensions of varying difference.
		Traditionally, the Historia Britonum is ascribed to be the work of (Click link for more info and facts about Nennius) Nennius, a Welsh monk of the (Click link for more info and facts about ninth century) ninth century.
		This is a (A record or narrative description of past events) chronicle consisting of a series of unnumbered years, from AD 445 to 977, some of which have events added.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/Hi/Historia_Britonum.htm (2126 words)

	Historia Britonum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Professor Dumville's researches have shown that the ascription of this work to Nennius originated in the tenth century in one branch of the manuscript transmission, created by a scribe seeking to root this work in the intellectual traditions of that time.
		The Historia Britonum has also drawn attention because of its role in influencing the legends and myths surrounding King Arthur.
		At that time, Talhaiarn Cataguen was famed for poetry, and Neirin, and Taliesin and Bluchbard, and Cian, who is called Guenith Guaut, were all famous at the same time in British poetry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Historia_Brittonum (2172 words)

	Ambrosius Aurelianus
		Ambrosius Aurelianus was a leader of the Romano-British, who won important battles against the Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century, according to Gildas and to the legends preserved in the Historia Britonum.
		This story was later retold with more detail by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his Historia Regum Britanniae, conflating the personage of Ambrosius with the Welsh tradition of Merlin the visonary, known for oracular utterances that foretold the coming victories of the native Celtic inhabitants of Britain over the Saxons and the Normans.
		Because Ambrosius and Vortigern are shown in the Historia Brittonum as being in conflict, some historians have suspected that this preserves a historical core of the existence of two parties in opposition to one another, one headed by Ambrosius, and the other by Vortigern.
	www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/a/am/ambrosius_aurelianus.html (900 words)

	vortigern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Historia Britonum recounts the same four battles, also in Kent, only its author claims that Vortigern's son Vortimer won all four battles and that the Saxons were driven out of Britain; only to return at Vortigern's re-invitation a few years later, following the death of Vortimer.
		The stories the Historia Britonum preserve reveal an attempt by one or more anonymous British scholar to provide more detail to this story, while struggling to accomidate the facts of the British tradition.
		It was with the pen of Geoffrey of Monmouth that the story of Vortigern adopted its best-known form.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /vortigern.html (1273 words)

	NENNIUS - LoveToKnow Article on NENNIUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		His work is known to us through thirty manuscripts; but the earliest of these cannot be dated much earlier than the year 1000; and all are defaced by interpolations which give to the work so confused a character that critics were long disposed to treat it as an unskilful forgery.
		But he proves that Nennius should be regarded as the compiler of the Historia proper (~ 7-6 5).
		The chief authorities whom Nennius followed were Gildas De excidio Britonum, Eusebius, the Vita Patricii of Murichu Maccu Machtheni, the Collectanea of Tirechan, the Liber occupationis (an Irish work on the settlement of Ireland), the Liber de sex aetatibus niundi, the chronicle of Prosper of Aquitaine, the Liber beati Germani.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NE/NENNIUS.htm (802 words)

	Encyclopedia: Odin
		According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Historia Britonum, Woden had the sons Wecta, Baeldaeg, Casere and Wihtlaeg.
		Wecta is mentioned in Historia Britonum, and was a reputed king of Kent.
		The Ynglinga saga also details the sacrifices made by the Swedish king Aun, who, it was revealed to him, would lengthen his life by sacrificing one of his sons every ten years; nine of his ten sons died this way.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Odin (9991 words)

	Historia Britonum - Definition up Erdmond.Com
		Traditionally, the ''Historia Britonum'' is ascribed to be the work of Nennius, a Welsh monk of the ninth_century.
		The Historia Britonum has also drawn attention because of its role in influencing the legends and myths surrounding King_Arthur.
		This history is the source of several stories some of which were repeated and amplified by later authors: 1) The story of Vortigern, who allowed the Saxons to settle in the island of Britain in return for the hand of Hengest's daughter.
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	Ambrosius Aurelianus - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Ambrosius Aurelianus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ambrosius Aurelianus (incorrectly referred to in the Historia Regum Britanniae as Aurelius Ambrosius) was a leader of the Romano-British, who won important battles against the Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century, according to Gildas and to the legends preserved in the Historia Britonum.
		Some scholars have speculated that he was the leader of the Romano-British at the Battle of Mons Badonicus and as such may have become a historical basis for King Arthur.
		When King Constantine's eldest son Constans is murdered at Vortigern's instigation, the two remaining sons, Ambrosius and Uther, still very young, are quickly hustled into exile in Brittany.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Ambrosius-Aurelianus.html (1205 words)

	Nennius
		A new turn was given to the controversy by Heinrich Zimmer, who, in his Nennius vindicatus (1893), traced the history of the work and, by a comparison of the manuscripts with the 11th-century translation of the Irish scholar, Gilla Coemgim (d.
		The only part of the Historia which deserves to be treated as a historical document is the section known as the Genealogiae Saxonum (sections 57-65).
		The chief authorities whom Nennius followed were Gildas' De excidio Britonum, Eusebius, the Vita Patricii of Murichu Maccu Machtheni, the Collectanea of Tirechan, the Liber occupationis (an Irish work on the settlement of Ireland), the Liber de sex aetatibus mundi, the chronicle of Prosper of Aquitaine, the Liber beati Germani.
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	Historia Britonum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		El Historia Britonum, o la historia de los británico, es un trabajo histórico que era primer escrito alguna vez poco después el ANUNCIO 820, y existe en varios recensions de la diferencia que varía.
		Y puesto que este manuscrito ofreció la única historia de País de Gales complementaria a propia historia eclesiástica de Bede de la gente inglesa, fue reproducido y revisado para resolver esta demanda.
		El Historia Britonum también ha atraído la atención debido a su papel en influenciar las leyendas y los mitos que rodeaban a rey Arturo.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/hi/Historia%20Britonum.htm (2185 words)

	Vortigern - Encyclopedia, History and Biography
		Genealogical material about Vortigern's ancestry, the names of his four sons (Vortimer, Pascent, Catigern, Faustus), and which associate him with Gloucester.
		The stories preserved in the Historia Britonum reveal an attempt by one or more anonymous British scholars to provide more detail to this story, while struggling to accommodate the facts of the British tradition.
		Geoffrey — or the oral tradition he may have drawn upon — attempted to harmonize the conflicting materials of the Historia Britonum into a coherent narrative.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Vortigern (1367 words)

	AllRefer.com - Nennius (English Literature To 1499, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He lived on the borders of Mercia and probably was a pupil of Elbod, bishop of Bangor.
		The Historia is a compilation containing much on the early history of Britain and the Anglo-Saxon invasions.
		Among the many translations of the Historia is an excellent one by A. Wade-Evans (1938) of a Latin text.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/Nennius.html (229 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Geoffrey of Monmouth
		This "Historia" had appeared before 1139, but Geoffrey continued to work at it, and in 1147 he completed it in its final form.
		In 1151-2 he was elected bishop of St. Asaph and was consecrated at Lambeth by Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury, on 24 Feb., having been ordained priest a week before, but he died without having entered his diocese.
		The "Historia Britonum" was first printed at Paris, 1508; the latest editions being those of Giles (London, 1844) and Schulz (Halle, 1854).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06428a.htm (425 words)

	MS 590 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Historia Britonum; French poem beginning Tel quide aleger sa grevance; Roman des Romans.
		1r-114v Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Historia Britonum (incomplete at end: explicit: iam toti loegrie imperaverant sub duce adelstano qui primus inter eos diadema portavit) ff.
		Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (London, 1964) 160; Griscom, A. The Historia Regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth (London, 1929) 51-52, 562, 575 (no. 23); Hardy, T.D. Descriptive Catalogue of Materials relating to the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the end of the reign of Henry VII (London, 1862) Vol.
	webtext.library.yale.edu /beinflat/pre1600.MS590.htm (271 words)

	NENNIUS (fl. 796) - Online Information article about NENNIUS (fl. 796)
		But he proves that Nennius should be regarded as the compiler of the Historia proper (§§ 7-65).
		Arthur; the value of the Historia from this point of view is admitted by the severest critics.
		Stevenson's edition of the Historia Britonum (English Hist.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /NAN_NEW/NENNIUS_fl_796_.html (1103 words)

	ARTHUR (Fr. Arius) - Encyclopedia Britannica - ARTHUR (Fr. Arius) - JCSM's Study Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The words of Wace, the Norman poet who translated the Historia into verse, are here admirably to the point.
		now generally accepted by scholars is that the evidence of Nennius, whose Historia Britonum preceded that of Geoffrey by some 400 years, is in the main to be relied on.
		Historic:Nennius, Historia Britonum; H. Zimmer, Nennius Vindicatus (Berlin, 1893), an examination into the credibility of Nennius; Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Britonum (translations of both histories are in Bohn's Library) ; Wace, the Brut (ed.
	www.jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Encyclopedia_Britannica/ARN_AUD/ARTHUR_Fr_Arius_.html (1670 words)

	TEMPLE OF KING ARTHUR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Arthur was mysteriously carried away to the mythical island of Avalon to be healed of his "grievous wound." The first allusion to Arthur is in the Welsh poem Y Gododdin (circa 600).
		The earliest continuous Arthurian narrative is in the Historia Regum Britanniae (circa 1139) by the English writer Geoffrey of Monmouth.
		The Historia mentions the isle of Avalon, where Arthur went to recover from wounds after his last battle, and it tells of Guinevere's infidelity and the rebellion instigated by Arthur's nephew Mordred.
	sangha.net /messengers/king-arthur.htm (1837 words)

	Vortigern
		Vortigern is said to have been the leader of the British in only the first battle, the opponents in the next three battles variously called "British" and "Welsh" -- which is not unusual for this part of the Chronicle -- and the Saxon invaders are invariably declared the victors in every situation.
		The Historia Britonum recounts the same four battles, also in the southeastern corner of Britain, only its author claims that Vortigern or his son Vortemir won all four battles.
		Genealogical material about Vortigern's ancestory, the names of his three sons (Vortimer, Pascent, Catigern), and which associate him with Gloucester.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/v/vo/vortigern.html (1117 words)

	GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH (d. 1154) - Online Information article about GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH (d. 1154)
		The influence of the Historia Britonum may be illustrated in another way, by enumerating the more See also:
		Besides II the Historia Britonum Geoffrey is also credited with a Life of Merlin composed in Latin See also:
		composition, the Prophecies of Merlin, was written before 1136, and afterwards incorporated with the Historia, of which it forms the seventh book.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /GAG_GEO/GEOFFREY_OF_MONMOUTH_d_1154_.html (1189 words)

	Nennius - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Elvodugus is commonly identified with the bishop Elfoddw of Gwynedd, who convinced the rest of the Welsh portion of Celtic Christianity to celebrate Easter on the same date as the other Catholics in Britain in AD 768, and is later stated by the Annales Cambriae to have died in 809.
		This Nennius is traditionally stated as having lived in the early 9th century, and is identified in one group of manuscripts of the Historia Brittonum as the author of that work.
		The Irish version of the Historia Britonum of Nennius (Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society.
	www.unipedia.info /Nennius.html (418 words)

	Historia Britonum - TheBestLinks.com - Historia Brittonum, Ambrosius Aurelianus, Britain, Bede, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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	§2. "Locrine:" points of resemblance to "The Spanish Tragedie". X. Plays of Uncertain Authorship Attributed to ...
		But, if Locrine, as verse, diction and plot construction lead us to suppose, was written before 1590, it is probable that the lines borrowed from Spenser do not belong to the original edition, but only to the revised version of 1595.
		The story of Locrine, which is also told by Lodge in his Complaint of Elstred and by Spenser in his Faerie Queene 5 was found by the playwright in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Britonum and the Chronicles of Holinshed.
		Weak in characterisation, and somewhat loose and episodic in plot construction, the play, however, is by no means the caput mortuum which Lamb declared it to be.
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	Four Ancient Books of Wales: Introduction: Chapter III. Sources of the Early History of Wales
		It is obvious that both the Chronicle and the Welsh genealogies were additions intended to illustrate the Genealogia attached to the Historia Britonum, and to bring the Welsh history down to the date of the compiler.
		The Historia Britonum was translated into Irish by Giollacaomhan, an Irish Sennachy, who died in 1072, and various Irish and Pictish additions were incorporated in the translation.
		40:1 The original work will be quoted under the title of the Historia Britonum, the second portion under that of the Genealogia, or both generally as Nennius, and the fifth as the Chronicle and Genealogies of 977.
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	The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries: The Recorded Fairy-Faith: Chapter V. Brythonic Divinities
		Historia Britonum, completed about the year 800, and attributed to Nennius, Arthur, for the first time in a known manuscript, is mentioned as a character of British history.
		His Historia, as the researches of scholars have shown, was the sum total in his time of all Arthurian history and myth, whether written or orally transmitted, which he could collect; just as Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur was a compendium of Arthurian material in the time of Edward IV.
		By about 1136, when Geoffrey's famous Historia appeared, these traditions were already highly developed in Britain, and Arthur had become a great Brythonic hero enveloped in a halo of romance and myth, and, as an Otherworld being, was definitely related to Avalon and its fairy inhabitants.
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