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Abstract
This chapter focuses on accounts of the history of the Welsh (usually referred to as Britons), written (mostly) in Latin, from the sixth century to the eve of the first Norman invasions of Wales in the 1070s. After briefly considering how Bede and other early medieval English historians portrayed the Britons and Welsh, it assesses the significance of Gildas’s De Excidio Britanniae (‘The Ruin of Britain’), possibly datable to c.540, which interpreted the Britons’ loss of territories in Britain to the English as divine punishment for their sins. Attention turns in the rest of the chapter to the collection of historical texts extant in British Library, Harleian MS 3859: Historia Brittonum (‘The History of the Britons’, 829/30), the Harleian chronicle or A-text of Annales Cambriae, and the Harleian genealogies. The discussion highlights the strong identification with a wider Brittonic world revealed by these works and their use of a wide range of sources, including texts from England, Ireland, and the European Continent.
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Abstract
This chapter focuses on accounts of the history of the Welsh (usually referred to as Britons), written (mostly) in Latin, from the sixth century to the eve of the first Norman invasions of Wales in the 1070s.
After briefly considering how Bede and other early medieval English historians portrayed the Britons and Welsh, it assesses the significance of Gildas’s De Excidio Britanniae (‘The Ruin of Britain’), possibly datable to c.
540, which interpreted the Britons’ loss of territories in Britain to the English as divine punishment for their sins.
Attention turns in the rest of the chapter to the collection of historical texts extant in British Library, Harleian MS 3859: Historia Brittonum (‘The History of the Britons’, 829/30), the Harleian chronicle or A-text of Annales Cambriae, and the Harleian genealogies.
The discussion highlights the strong identification with a wider Brittonic world revealed by these works and their use of a wide range of sources, including texts from England, Ireland, and the European Continent.
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