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Also of interest is his description of the theft of Stonehenge from Ireland:

XVIII.--Octa and Eosa are taken in battle.

I.--Arthur succeeds Uther his father in the kingdom of Britain, and besieges Colgrin.

V.--The Saxons, after their leader Cheldric was killed, are all compelled by Cador to surrender. CHAP. CHAP. CHAP. IX.--Vortigern makes himself king of Britain.

CHAP. II.--Geoffrey's letter to Alexander, bishop of Lincoln.

Arthur, designing to vanquish him, by a stratagem possesses himself of the valley of Suesia. Geoffrey of Monmouth's Histories of the Kings of Britain CHAP. CHAP. Octa and Ebissa are four times routed by Vortimer. CHAP. CHAP. CHAP.

III.--Constantine meets with disturbances from the Saxons and Modred's sons. XIV.--Pascentius, assisted by the king of Ireland, again invades Britain. Uther Pendragon being dead, the nobility from several provinces assembled together at Silchester, and proposed to Dubricius, archbishop of Legions, that he should consecrate Arthur, Uther's son, to be their king. XI.--Hengist brings over great numbers of Saxons into Britain: his crafty petition to Vortigern. XX.--Arthur prepares for a war, and refuses to pay tribute to the Romans. The ambassadors in a short time prevailed so far, that, unmindful of past injuries, the Romans granted them one legion, which was transported in a fleet to their country, and there speedily encountered the enemy.

II.--Arthur commits to his nephew Modred the government of Britain.

CHAP. CHAP. Embedded in the Histories is CHAP.

CHAP. VIII.--Britain, in the flame of civil war under king Careticus, is miserably wasted by the Saxons and Africans. XI.--The Britons lose their kingdom.

CHAP. this translation of Geoffrey's Histories. V.--Constantine, being made king of Britain, leaves three sons. The Histories includes many traditional tales, particularly d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/text/geoffrey-of-monmouth-arthurian-passages-from-the-history-of-the-kings-of-britain, Six Old English Chronicles, of Which Two Are Now First Translated from the Monkish Latin Originals. CHAP. IX.--The author upbraids the Britons. which retroactively predicts current events of Geoffrey's time. CHAP. CHAP.

Lot, a consul, marries the king's daughter.

Notably missing are the Round Table, the Grail, Guinevere's affair with Lancelot, Excalibur, the Lady of the Lake, and the final journey to Avalon. Colgrin and Baldulph are killed in the same. CHAP. IX.--A battle between Arthur and Lucius Tiberius. IV.--Dubricius's speech against the treacherous Saxons. II.--Guethelin's speech to the Britons when the Romans left them. This is the first appearance on the Internet of But Gratian Municeps, hearing of the death of Maximian, seized the crown, and made himself king. CHAP. III.--Arthur kills a Spanish giant who had stolen away Helena, the niece of Hoel. CHAP. CHAP.

CHAP. For the same day fell Augusel, king of Albania, and Walgan, the king's nephew, with innumerable others. CHAP. CHAP. His Arthur has few of the romantic, mystical and miraculous motifs of later versions. CHAP. Augusel was succeeded in his kingdom by Eventus, his brother Urian's son, who afterwards performed many famous exploits in those wars. At last, after the slaughter of a vast multitude of them, they drove them entirely out of the country, and rescued the miserable people from their outrageous cruelty. XIII.--A description of the royal pomp at the coronation of Arthur. He made good use of these legends and wholely invented many of his own in introducing Arthur, King of the Britons; his adviser Merlin; Morgan Le … XIX.--They unanimously agree upon a war with the Romans. CHAP.

XII.--Augustine, being sent by pope Gregory into Britain, preaches the gospel to the Angles.

V.--The Romans attack the Britons with a very great force, but are put to flight by them. XV.--A comet presignifies the reign of Uther. CHAP. II.--Aurelius Ambrosius, being anointed king of Britain, burns Vortigern besieged in a tower.

CHAP. a telling of the story of King Lear (who was originally a Celtic God, Lyr). Aurelius dies by the treachery of Eopa, a Saxon. Vita Merlini, or Life of Merlin. IV.--Arthur's ambassadors to Lucius Tiberius deliver Petreius Cotta, whom they took prisoner to Arthur.

CHAP. I.--Lucius Tiberius calls together the eastern kings against the Britons. Hengist forces Vortigern to yield up the strongest fortifications in Britain, in consideration of his release. CHAP. CHAP. Arthur, being wounded, gives up the kingdom to Constantine. XVI.--Arthur, holding a council with the kings, desires every one of them to deliver their opinions. I.--Gratian, being advanced to the throne, is killed by the common people. XIII.-- Pascentius brings in the Saxons against the Britons.

After they had at last, with much difficulty, got ashore, they paid back the slaughter, and put Modred and his army to flight. CHAP. VI.--Wortiporius, being declared king, conquers the Saxons. work which Geoffrey composed on the same theme, Nevertheless, this perjured usurper got his forces together again, and the night following entered Winchester. CHAP.

IX.--Aurelius, having entirely routed the enemies, restores all things in Britain, especially ecclesiastical affairs, to their ancient state. CHAP. Of the matter now to be treated of, most noble consul, Geoffrey of Monmouth shall be silent; but will, nevertheless, though in a mean style, briefly relate what he found in the British book above mentioned, and heard from that most learned historian, Walter, archdeacon of Oxford, concerning the wars which this renowned king, upon his return to Britain after this victory, waged against his nephew. XV.--Hengist, having wickedly murdered the princes of Britain, keeps Vortigern prisoner.

IV.--The continuation of the prophecy. Error rating book. CHAP. CHAP. CHAP. XI.--Arthur subdues Norway, Dacia, Aquitaine, and Gaul.

The levity of the Scots exposed. Then they gave orders for a wall to be built between Albania and Deira, from one sea to the other, for a terror to the enemy, and safeguard to the country. As soon, therefore, as the report, of this flagrant wickedness reached him, he immediately desisted from his enterprise against Leo, king of the Romans; and having sent away Hoel, duke of the Armoricans, with the army of Gaul, to restore peace in those parts, returned back with speed to Britain, attended only by the kings of the islands, and their armies. XII.--Vortigern marries Rowen, the daughter of Hengist. CHAP. Welcome back. XII.--Gillomanius being routed by Uther, the Britons bring over the Giant's dance into Britain. X.--Aurelius is advised by Merlin to remove the Giant's Dance from the mountain Killaraus.

CHAP. XI.--Lucius Tiberius being killed, the Britons obtain the victory. XII.--Part of the Romans flee; the rest, of their own accord, surrender themselves for slaves.

The Prophecies of Merlin, was a medieval attempt to forge a national epic for the British people, But the wicked traitor, Modred, had sent Cheldric, the Saxon leader, into Germany, there to raise all the forces he could find, and return with all speed: and in consideration of this service, had promised him all that part of the island, which reaches from the Humber to Scotland, and whatever Hengist and Horsa had possessed of Kent in the time of Vortigern. CHAP. II.--Hoel sends fifteen thousand men to Arthur's assistance. III.--The Britons are again cruelly harassed by Guanius and Melga. CHAP. X.--Arthur adds to his government Ireland, Iceland, Gothland, and the Orkneys.

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III.--Arthur makes the Saxons his tributaries.

XX.--Gorlois being killed, Uther marries Igerna. Geoffrey invented a mythical back-history for the Britons, starting, It was a bestseller before such things really existed, and is one of most exciting and influential medieval English books in existence. CHAP. II.--Modred, after being twice besieged and routed, is killed. XVII.--Vortigern, after consultation with magicians, orders a youth to be brought that never had a father.

The Saxons are slain by the Britons without mercy. I.--Geoffrey of Monmouth's preface to Merlin's prophecy. shortly after the Norman conquest. Also available at this site is a bilingual edition of a later

I.--Arthur succeeds Uther his father in the kingdom of Britain, and besieges Colgrin. VI.--Lucius Tiberius goes to Lengriæ. CHAP. III.--The praise of Aurelius's valour. As soon as queen Guanhumara heard this, she immediately, despairing of success, fled from York to the City of Legions, where she resolved to lead a chaste life among the nuns in the church of Julius the Martyr, and entered herself one of their order. CHAP.

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X.--Loegria is again inhabited by the Saxons.

CHAP. His dream at Hamo's Port.

as Virgil did, with a fugitive from the sack of Troy, named Brute or Brutus.

Among other things, this chronicle, written in Latin in the twelfth century by a Welsh monk, popularised the story of King Arthur. “When fatigue finally forced him to pause, he ordered the men who were left to have their hearts torn out and their carcasses burned”, “Britain, the best of islands, is situated in the Western Ocean, between France and Ireland.”, “But Hengist, hearing that Vortimer was dead, raised an army of not less than three hundred thousand men, and fitting out a fleet returned with them to Britain.”, The History of Merlin and King Arthur: The Earliest Version of the Arthurian Legend, Historia Regum Britanniae: Arthurian Classics, The Marvellous History of King Arthur in Avalon and of the Lifting of Lyonnesse, Heroes of Old Britain: Retold from Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain (Annotated), JUNE 2013 (Group Read 2) Insurrection by Robyn Young. VI.--Hengist, in a duel with Eldol, is taken by him. At that time Albania was wholly laid to waste, by the frequent invasions of barbarous nations; and whatever enemies made an attempt upon the country, met with a convenient landing-place there. CHAP. VIII.--Octa, being besieged in York, surrenders himself to the mercy of Aurelius. XVIII.--Vortigern inquires of Merlin's mother concerning her conception of him. CHAP. IV.--Hengist marches with his army against Aurelius, into the field of Maisbeli. Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain. CHAP. CHAP. See the Introduction to Geoffrey of Monmouth and his works by Emily Rebekah Huber. CHAP. XIX.--Merlin's speech to the king's magicians, and advice about the building of the tower. VIII.--Arthur restores York to its ancient beauty, especially as to its churches.

CHAP. When he had at last corrupted all the youth of the country with his large promises, he prepared a vast fleet, and arrived in the northern parts of the island, upon which he began to make great devastations. CHAP. XIII.--Ethelfrid kills a great number of the British monks, but is at last routed by the Britons.

CHAP. So that the inhabitants were diligent in working upon the wall, which they finished partly at the public, partly upon private charge. XIX.--Uther, falling in love with Igerna, enjoys her by the assistance of Merlin's magical operations. CHAP. CHAP. CHAP. CHAP. Geoffrey of Monmouth is a primary source for the Arthurian legends, one of the first published accounts. Geoffrey of Monmouth, writing in the 12th century, had quite a retinue of Welsh tales to work from, as evidenced on the previous page. At the same time Pascentius, the son of Vortigern, who had fled over into Germany, was levying all the forces of the kingdom against Aurelius Ambrosius, with a design to revenge his father's death; and promised his men an immense treasure of gold and silver, if with their assistance he could succeed in reducing Britain under his power. CHAP. XXIII.--Octa and Eosa, with a great number of their men, are killed. VI.--Arthur grants a pardon to the Scots and Picts, besieged at the Lake Lumond. XVI.--Eldol's valiant exploit. CHAP. CHAP.

His whole army, taking pagans and Christians together, amounted to eighty thousand men; with the help of whom he met Arthur just after his landing at the port of Rutupi, and joining battle with him, made a very great slaughter of his men.



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