![]() ![]() The former is effectively an appeal to the linguistic parallels between the preface and the main body of the text, while the latter uses this argument as well as complex word and letter counts. In particular, there has been a near-unanimous rejection of the view that its writing involved what the (certainly spurious) preface attributing it to Nennius claims, coaceruaui omne quod inueni ‘I heaped up all that I found’ only P J C Field and David Howlett have offered serious defences of the Nennian attribution. ![]() The document has been viewed by recent commentators (notably David Dumville) as a carefully crafted political statement, reflecting the concerns of early ninth-century Gwynedd and containing little or nothing of value to the history of earlier ages, whereas earlier generations of historians were often content to read it at face value. The Historia Brittonum is an early ninth-century Cambro-Latin composition, which purports to give an account of the geography and history of the British Isles from their first settler (said to be Brutus, in the time of the Biblical Judge Eli) to the early Middle Ages. ![]()
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