History of the Kings of Britain

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Merlin dictating his poems, from a 13th century French manuscript

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• Book 1: the wanderings of Brutus
• Book 2: Guendoloena, Bladud, King Leir and his daughters, Dunwallo Molmutius
• Book 3: Belinus and Brennius, Elidure, Heli, Lud
• Book 4: Cassibellaun and the invasions of Caesar; Kymbelinus; Arviragus and the invasion of Claudius; King Lucius becomes a Christian
• Book 5: Roman Britain from Severus to Maximian
• Book 6: the Romans leave; Vortigern; the Saxons arrive, led by Hengist and Horsa; and introducing Merlin
• Book 7: the Prophesies of Merlin
• Book 8: Aurelius Ambrosius, Merlin builds Stonehenge, Uther Pendragon, the birth of Arthur
• Book 9: the victories and ceremony of Arthur's reign; the Romans demand tribute
• Book 10: Arthur's war against the emperor Lucius Tiberius in Gaul
• Book 11: Arthur's last battle, against Modred; the Saxons return; civil war; Augustine comes to convert the Saxons
• Book 12: decline of the Britons under Cadwan, Cadwalla and Cadwallader

[edit] Plain text

As printed in Giles's Six Old English Chronicles, with Giles's chapter headings and footnotes, no wikilinks and no added annotation

• Book 1 - Book 2 - Book 3 - Book 4 - Book 5 - Book 6 - Book 7 - Book 8 - Book 9 - Book 10 - Book 11 - Book 12

[edit] Secondary

• Introduction from Six Old English Chronicles (1848), by J. A. Giles

[edit] Bibliography

• Wm. R. Cooper (2002), Chronicle of the Early Britons
• J.A. Giles (1948), Six Old English Chronicles
• A. O. H. Jarman (1966), Geoffrey of Monmouth
• Owen Jones, Edward Williams & William Owen Pughe (eds, 1870), The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales
• Henry Lewis (1974), Brut Dingestow
• John Morris (1980), Arthurian Period Sources Vol 8: Nennius
• Lewis Thorpe (1966), The History of the Kings of Britain