History of the Kings of Britain

History of the Kings of Britain (1136)
by Geoffrey of Monmouth, translated by Aaron Thompson and J. A. Giles

Written circa 1136. Translation based on Aaron Thompson (1718), revised and corrected by J. A. Giles (1842)

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

Annotated [edit]

Wikified and annotated with reference to other translations, sources and analogues

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

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

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