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	Nennius and the Table of European Nations
		Morris' translation of Nennius, which opens this present chapter, implies that the British of the time were stupid in the sense of being intellectually dull.
		Nennius completed his work towards the very end of the 8th century AD and the sources that he gathered were many and varied.
		Nennius' source and Genesis are in remarkable agreement with one another, yet Nennius adds details that are not included in Genesis, for the natural and obvious reason that the Genesis account is necessarily brief.
	www.ldolphin.org /cooper/ch3.html (1812 words)

	Nennius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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 Catholic s 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 manuscript s of the Historia Brittonum as the author of that work.
		Nennius, British Historian Short biography of the 9th-century Celtic historian describing his works and comparing him to an Anglo-Saxon counterpart, the Venerable Bede.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Nennius.html (389 words)

	NENNIUS - LoveToKnow Article on NENNIUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A new turn was given to the controversy by Heinrich Zimmer, who, in his Nennius v-indicatus (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.
		Nennius l~imself gives us the oldest legends relating to the victories of King Arthur; the value of the Historic from this point of view is admitted by the severest critics.
		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.
	25.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NE/NENNIUS.htm (802 words)

	Nennius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nennius, or Nemnivus, is either of two shadowy personages traditionally associated with the history of Wales.
		In response to the snide accusation of a Saxon scholar that the Britons had no alphabet of their own, this Nemnivus is said to have invented an alphabet on the fly in order to refute this insult.
		Nennius and Historia Brittonum commentary from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume 1, 1907–21.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nennius (361 words)

	NENNIUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Nennius, oder Nemnivus ist der Name von zwei nur undeutlich erkennbaren Personen, die traditionell mit der Geschichte von Wales verbunden werden.
		Der andere Nennius wird in einem walisischen Manuskript des 9.
		Das Alphabet, das Nennius erfunden haben soll, wird in diesem Manuskript bewahrt, und ist - Nora K. Chadwick folgend vom der altenglischen Runenschrift oder Futhark abgeleitet.
	www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/N/Nennius (326 words)

	Nennius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Nennius or Nemnivus is the name of shadowy personages traditionally associated with the history Wales.
		Elvodugus is commonly with the bishop Elfoddw of Gwynedd who the rest of the Welsh portion of Celtic Christianity to celebrate Easter on the same date as the 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 lived in the early 9th century and identified in one group of manuscripts of the Historia Brittonum as the author of that work.
	www.freeglossary.com /Nennius (459 words)

	§2. Nennius and Gildas. XII. The Arthurian Legend. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Historia Brittonum, commonly ascribed to Nennius, is a curious compilation, which was put into its present form not later than the first half of the ninth century 6.
		Nennius claims, in his preface, after the manner of his kind, to be an original compiler.
		In what purports to be the strictly historical part of his narrative Nennius relates how, some time after the death of Hengist, Arthur fought against the English along with the kings of the Britons and “was himself their war-leader” —ipse dux erat bellorum— in twelve battles.
	www.bartleby.com /211/1202.html (986 words)

	HISTORY OF BRITAIN, 407-597, by Fabio P. Barbieri
		Nennius’ first nine chapters had been dedicated to an account of the general chronology of creation and mankind; chapter 10 was the first of what we might call an ethnography of Britain and surrounding islands.
		Nennius stopped for us, as it were in a photograph, the process of normalization away from the archaic and native spelling into the regular Latin name, by a process of guesswork that argued that, if the ancestor of the Britons came from the Troyans of Latium, then his name must have been recognizably Latin.
		Nennius says almost nothing else about Arthur, and the little he says comes from traveller’s tales; this helps to prove my point, since nothing is more certain than that Welshmen of his time knew far more of Arthur than the little he uses.
	www.geocities.com /vortigernstudies/fabio/introduction.htm (6992 words)

	The Heroic Age: Forty Years of Fear
		His conclusion was that Nennius was attempting to write a synthetic history (Dumville 1986:1) and as a result looked for the dates of the Adventus Saxonum and the accession of Vortigern.
		Nennius would have discovered from Prosper that Maximus's death occurred at the hands of the Emperors Theodosius and Valentinian in A.D. To this he would have added the period of forty years to arrive at the date for the Adventus Saxonum as proposed by Tolstoy.
		Nennius is not likely to have made such an enormous mistake, for he states in Chapter 29 that Theodosius and Valentinian ruled together for "eight years".
	www.mun.ca /mst/heroicage/issues/2/ha2fyf.htm (3500 words)

	Trojan Genealogy of Nennius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Trojan genealogy of Nennius was written in the Historia Brittonum of Nennius and was created to merge Greek mythology with Christian themes.
		It was probably written by the Welsh monk Nennius in the 5th century, although there is little known about him.
		Nennius lists seven sons of Jepheth, none of which are Juuin, so it is safe to say she is a female.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trojan_Genealogy (247 words)

	King Arthur - The Welsh Evidence
		Nennius does not say who this Arthur is. There is no indication of who his father might be, so that he can be identified and his time and place in history established.
		Therefore Nennius' description of Arthur's battles with the Saxon could quite easily be a legendary account of the wars in the North between Arthur son of Aidan and the Britons on one side and the Saxons on the other.
		Nennius wrote his account three centuries after the time of Arthur, always assuming that he did write it, and it was not in fact a later addition to the story.
	www.legendofkingarthur.com /welshev.htm (1385 words)

	§3. Nennius and "Historia Brittonum". V. Latin Writings in England to the Time of Alfred. Vol. 1. From the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He represents himself as a pupil of Elbodugus (who is known to have been bishop of Bangor, and to have died in 809) and also, seemingly, as a pupil of one Beulan, for whose son Samuel he made his revision of the book.
		If we possessed the whole of the revision by Nennius in its Latin form, we should most likely find that he had infused into it something of the learned manner beloved of his race and age.
		It must be mentioned that another hypothesis regards Nennius as primarily responsible for the whole compilation.
	www.bartleby.com /211/0503.html (789 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Nennius: Historia Brittonum, 8th century
		Nennius was an eighth-century historian who is a major source for tales of King Arthur.
		Not all of Nennius can be dismissed as he apparently had access to no-longer available 5th century sources, but neither can he be entirely trusted.
		I, Nennius, disciple of St. Elbotus, have endeavoured to write some extracts which the dulness of the British nation had cast away, because teachers had no knowledge, nor gave any information in their books about this island of Britain.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/basis/nennius-full.html (7378 words)

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