Geoffrey of Monmouth, translated by J. A. GilesBook 11

Name: Six Old English Chronicles — British History
Author: Geoffrey of Monmouth, translated by J. A. GilesBook 11

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Geoffrey of Monmouth, translated by J. A. GilesBook 11 published works such as Six Old English Chronicles — British History. These writings evoke Britons, Modred and Saxons.

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Geoffrey of Monmouth, translated by J. A. GilesBook 11, Six Old English Chronicles — British History (1848)

“ Augusel was succeeded in his kingdom by Eventus, his brother Urian's son, who afterwards performed many famous exploits in those wars. After they had at last, with much difficulty, got ashore, they paid back the slaughter, and put Modred and his army to flight. For, by long practice in war, they had learned an excellent way of ordering their forces; which was so managed, that while their foot were employed wither in an assault or upon the defensive, the horse would come in at full speed obliquely, break through the enemy's ranks, and so force them to flee. ”

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Geoffrey of Monmouth, translated by J. A. GilesBook 11, Six Old English Chronicles — British History (1848)

“ So that he, in obedience to his commands, had arrived with eight hundred ships filled with pagan soldiers, and had entered into a covenant to obey the traitor as his sovereign; who had also drawn to his assistance the Scots, Picts, Irish, and all others whom he knew to be enemies of his uncle. His whole army, taking pagans and Christians together, amounted to eighty thousand men; and with the help of whom he met Arthur just after his landing at the port of Rutupi, and joining battle with him, made a very great slaughter of his men. ”

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Geoffrey of Monmouth, translated by J. A. GilesBook 11, Six Old English Chronicles — British History (1848)

“ In the battle that followed hereupon, great numbers lost their lives on both sides; but at last Modred's army suffered most, so that he was forced to quit the field shamefully. From hence he made a precipitate flight, and, without taking any care for the burial of his slain, marched in haste towards Cornwall. Arthur, being inwardly grieved that he should so often escape, forthwith pursued him into that country as far as the river Cambula, [1] where the other was expecting his coming. ”

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Geoffrey of Monmouth, translated by J. A. GilesBook 11, Six Old English Chronicles — British History (1848)

“ For this reason they esteemed them their mortal enemies, reckoned their faith and religion as nothing, and would no more communicate with the Angles than with dogs.
13 Therefore Ethelbert, king of Kent, when he saw that the Britons disdained subjection to Augustine, and despised his preaching, was highly provoked, and stirred up Ethelfrid, king of the Northumbrians, and the other petty kings of the Saxons, to raise a great army, and march to the city of Bangor, to destroy the abbot Dinooth, and the rest of the clergy who held them in contempt. ”

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Geoffrey of Monmouth, translated by J. A. GilesBook 11, Six Old English Chronicles — British History (1848)

“ He likewise told them that a mixed army composed of barbarous people of so many different countries, and who were all raw soldiers and inexperienced in war, would never be able to stand against such brave veteran troops as they were, provided they did their duty. ”

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Geoffrey of Monmouth, translated by J. A. GilesBook 11, Six Old English Chronicles — British History (1848)

“ And Modred, as he was the boldest of men, and always the quickest at making an attack, immediately placed his troops in order, resolving either to conquer or to die, rather than continue his flight any longer. ”

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Geoffrey of Monmouth, translated by J. A. GilesBook 11, Six Old English Chronicles — British History (1848)

“ Among the rest, there was in the city of Bangor a most noble church, in which it is reported there was so great a number of monks, that when the monastery was divided into seven parts, having each their priors over them, not one of them had less than three hundred monks, who all lived by the labour of their own hands. ”

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Geoffrey of Monmouth, translated by J. A. GilesBook 11, Six Old English Chronicles — British History (1848)

“ But he gave them battle and came off with victory, so that he obtained the monarch of the whole kingdom, and governed the people carefully and peacefully four years.
7 After him succeeded Malgo, [6] one of the handsomest of men in Britain, a great scourge of tyrants, and a man of great strength, extraordinary munificence, and matchless valour, but addicted very much to the detestable vice of sodomy, by which he made himself abominable to God. He also possessed the whole island, to which, after a cruel war, he added the six provincial islands, voz. ”

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Geoffrey of Monmouth, translated by J. A. GilesBook 11, Six Old English Chronicles — British History (1848)

“ Therefore the remainder of the Britons retired into the western parts of the kingdom, that is, Cornwall and Wales; from whence they continually made frequent and fierce irruptions upon the enemy. The three archbishops, viz. ”

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