Six old English chronicles :
of which two are now first translated from the monkish Latin originals : Ethelwerd's Chronicle. Asser's Life of Alfred. Geoffrey of Monmouth's British history. Gildas. Nennius, and Richard of Cirencester / edited, with illustrative notes, by J.A. Giles.
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Bertram, Charles, 1723-1765.
Gunn, William, 1750-1841.
Asser, John, d. 909.
Ethelwerd, d. 998?
Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1100?-1154.
Gildas, 516?-570?
Nennius, fl. 796.
Giles, J. A. (John Allen), 1808-1884.
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English
- Published
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London : H.G. Bohn, 1848.
- Note
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The work attributed to Richard of Cirencester is a forgery by Charles Bertram.
Genealogical summary of Chapter V.: p. xiv-xviii.
The present translation of Nennius is substantially that of the Rev. W. Gunn, published with the Latin original in 1819.
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xx, 512 p. :
ill., port. ;
18 cm.
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