• sources, the siege of Exeter or siege of Caer-Uisc was a military conflict that took place in or around 630 CE, between the Mercians, led by Penda of Mercia...
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  • The siege of Exeter may refer to: The Mercian Siege of Exeter (c. 630), also known as the Siege of Caer-Uisc. Almost certainly fictional. The Danish Siege...
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    Excalibur (category Geoffrey of Monmouth)
    compound of caled, 'hard', and bwlch, 'breach, cleft'. Caledfwlch appears in several early Welsh works, including the prose tale Culhwch and Olwen (c. 11th–12th...
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    rather a siege. It is unclear if the Saxons were besieging the Britons, or Britons were besieging the Saxons. The earliest mention of the Battle of Badon...
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    work, the Prophetiae Merlini ("Prophecies of Merlin", c. 1130), which he claimed were the actual words of the legendary poet (including some distinctively...
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    Roger Lancelyn Green Raphael Holinshed Eric Idle David Jones Debra A. Kemp C. S. Lewis John Cowper Powys Howard Pyle William Shakespeare Edmund Spenser...
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    derived from Isidore of Seville's popular 7th-century work Etymologiae (c. 560–636), in which it was speculated that the name of Britain comes from bruti...
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    pp. 8–19. C. A. Coates, John Cowper Powys in Search of a Landscape. Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1982, p. 139. New York: Simon and Schuster. C. A. Coates...
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    Avalon (redirect from The Isle of Avalon)
    Britain", c. 1136) calls the place Insula Avallonis, meaning the "Isle of Avallon" in Latin. In his later Vita Merlini ("The Life of Merlin", c. 1150),...
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    Gorlois (category Monarchs of Cornwall)
    territory from Dimilioc. Incensed at their departing without leave, Uther lays siege to Gorlois' castles to little effect. He consults his friend Ulfin who tells...
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