• own troops and Nennius faced Caesar in single combat. Caesar struck Nennius a blow to the head, but his sword got stuck in Nennius's shield. After they...
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  • [unreliable source?] Nennius was a student of Elvodugus, commonly identified with the bishop Elfodd of Bangor who convinced British ecclesiastics to accept...
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    Archived 21 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved February 2010. Nennius (attrib.). Theodor Mommsen (ed.). Historia Brittonum, VI. Composed after...
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    Historia Brittonum is the earliest known source of the story of Brutus of Troy. Traditionally attributed to Nennius, its actual compiler is unknown; it exists...
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    Cornish and the Bretons), partly based on the work of earlier medieval historians like Gildas, Nennius and Bede, partly from Welsh genealogies and saints'...
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    which commentary was added by Nennius, but is best known from the account given by the 12th-century chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth in his Historia Regum...
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  • (The History of the Britons), attributed to the Welsh monk Nennius, in which the soldier (Latin mÄ«les) Arthur is identified as the leader of the victorious...
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    She was the youngest daughter of Leir and the second ruling queen of pre-Roman Britain. There is no independent historical evidence for her existence. She...
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  • Liebermann, 'Nennius', in A. G. Little ed, Essays in Medieval History presented to T. F. Tout (Manchester 1925) p. 29 F. Liebermann, 'Nennius', in A. G....
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    Beli Mawr (redirect from Heli of Britain)
    Historia Regum Britanniae (1130s) as the British king Heli, son of Digueillus and father of Lud, Cassivellaunus and Nennius. He is said to have held the throne...
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