Personal and place names have been corrected according to the edition in John Koch, ed. The following text was adapted by Michael Newton from John Allen Giles, trans. History of the Britons is a rare and fascinating glimpse into the early ninth century, but a text that must be used with caution! The early material (§10-18) is a mixture of myth and speculation attempting to provide origin legends for various ethnic groups living in the British Isles in the ninth century. This work is a compilation of miscellaneous texts of various origins and purposes, drawing upon materials from oral tradition as well as Latin manuscripts, and from sources in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Although the text of Historia Brittonum “The History of the Britons” was attributed in the past to the cleric Nennius, it is now believed to have been written by a Welsh clergyman AD 829×30.
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