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History Of The Britons by Nennius - prolouge
Title: History Of The Britons by Nennius - prolouge
Category: History
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History Of The Britons by Nennius - prolouge
History Of The Britons (Historia Brittonum) by Nennius
Translated by J. A. Giles
November, 1999 [Etext #1972]
Nennius, the lowly minister and servant of the servants of
God, by the grace of God, disciple of St. Elbotus,* to all the
followers of truth sendeth health.
* Or Elvod, bishop of Bangor, A.D. 755, who first adopted in the
Cambrian church the new cycle for regulating Easter.
Be it known to your charity, that being dull in intellect and
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…showed last 75 words of 851 total…scribes have attempted
to write this, but somehow or other have abandoned it from its
difficulty, either on account of frequent deaths, or the often
recurring calamities of war. I pray that every reader who shall
read this book, may pardon me, for having attempted, like a
chattering jay, or like some weak witness, to write these things,
after they had failed. I yield to him who knows more of these
things than I do.
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