Roman Britain and Early England, 55 BC-AD871 by Peter Hunter Blair

Bede records a British victory at the siege of Mt Badon: I, xvi, p. 'Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.' Opera Historica. Aldhelm's De Arturo reference is said to be here, but I have been unable to locate it.īede. Monumenta Germania Historica: Auctorum Antiquissimorum XV. Y Gododdin: Britain's Oldest Heroic Poem. The primary texts are in Latin with facing page translation. 2 includes the Vita I and Vita II of Gildas: respectively that written in the monastery of Ruys, and that by Caradoc. London: Nutt for the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1899-1901. De excidio Britanniae, fragmenta, liber de Paenitentia, accedit et lorica Gildae. 'De excidio et conquestu Britanniae.' Chronica Minora. Extracts from Chronica Gallica appear in Arthur of Britain (Texts: Collections 1927 1964) supra. Burgess (Other Scholarly Writing 1990 ) infra, includes years 379-456 as an appendix, and promises a forthcoming edition.

This is said to contain the principal inscription referring to Lucius Artorius Castus, but I have been unable to locate it. Popular anthology includes some Latin items as well as Celtic-language ones, all with translations.Ĭorpus Inscriptionum Latinarum: Inscriptiones Asiae, Provinciarum Europae Graecarum, Illyrici Latinae. The Celtic Sources for the Arthurian Legend. A collection of primary materials about or by Celtic peoples, all in English translation, including translations of Welsh material on Arthur. Malden, Massachusetts: Celtic Studies Publications, 1995. The Celtic Heroic Age: Literary Sources for Ancient Celtic Europe and Early Ireland and Wales. Also appears in Other Scholarly Writing, infra. Has an enormous amount of historical material in the notes. Also appears in Other Scholarly Writing, infra.Įnglish Historical Documents c. Roberts the pages given print Latin records but no Welsh ones. The 1964 reprint includes a supplementary bibliography by Brynley F. Cambridge: Speculum Historiale New York: Barnes, 1964. I, 49-60, which places all twelve battles, including Badon and Camlan, near Hadrian's Wall.Ĭhambers, E. The Four Ancient Books of Wales: Containing the Cymric Poems attributed to the Bards of the Sixth Century.

Roman Britain and Early England, 55 BC-AD871 by Peter Hunter Blair