![]() ![]() I have therefore made a heap of all that I have found, both from the annals of the Romans and from the chronicles of the Holy Fathers – that is Hieronymus, Eusebius, Isidore and Prosper – and from the annals of the Scots and the Saxons, and out of the tradition of our elders. Traditionally, on the strength of a prologue that features in just a handful of manuscripts (Harleian MS 3859 is not one of them), the work has been attributed to Nennius : I, Nennius, pupil of Elvodugus, have undertaken to write down some extracts that the stupidity of the British nation cast out for the scholars of the island of Britain had no skill, and set down no record in books. ![]() ![]() The Harleian manuscript dates from c.1100, but internal evidence suggests that the Historia text was originally compiled c.829. fullest, text is to be found in Harleian MS 3859 (in the British Library, London) – which also contains the A-text of the Annales Cambriae and the earliest Welsh collection of royal genealogies. The Historia Brittonum (History of the Britons), which evidently originated in early-9th century Wales, has survived, in several versions (recensions), in more than thirty medieval manuscripts. Sorry, you need Javascript enabled to view this page correctly. ![]()
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