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==References== {{wikisourcelang|la|Historia Brittonum|''Historia Brittonum'' (ed. Mommsen)}} {{Wikisource|History of the Britons|Giles tr. combined with composite trr. of Mirabilia}} {{wikiquote}} ===Primary sources=== ====Mirabilia only==== *{{citation|ref={{sfnRef|Cambrian Quarterly|1830}} |author=R |author-mask=R, tr. |year=1830 |title=The Wonders of the Island of Britain |journal=Cambrian Quarterly Magazine and Celtic Repertory |volume=2 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=3KI2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA60 60] ff}} *{{citation|last=Barber |first=Richard |author-mask=[[Richard Barber|Barber, Richard]], tr. |title=On the Marvels of Britain|work=Myths and Legends of the British Isles|year=1999|location=New York|publisher=Barnes and Noble Books|pages=[https://archive.org/details/mythslegendsofbr0000unse/page/85 85β88]|isbn=0-7607-1959-4|url=https://archive.org/details/mythslegendsofbr0000unse/page/85}} ====Texts and translations==== *{{citation|editor-last=Gale |editor-first=Thomas |editor-link=Thomas Gale |year=1691|title=Historiae Britannicae, Saxonicae, Anglo-Danicae, Scriptores XV. ex vetustis Codd. MSS. editi, (2 vols)|location=Oxford|publisher=E Theatro Sheldoniano|volume=1|page=93 ff|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1ChDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA93|format=google}} ** reprinted, with emendations, in *{{citation|last=Bertram |year=1757 |title=Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores tres |location=Copenhagen}} *{{citation|last=Gunn |first=((William, Rev.)) |author-mask=[[William Gunn (writer)|Gunn, William, Rev.]] ed., tr. |title=The "Historia Brittonum" <small>commonly attributed to Nennius, from a manuscript lately discovered in the library of the Vatican Palace at Rome; edited in the tenth century by Mark the Hermit; with an English version, facsimile..</small>|location=London|publisher=J. and A. Arch|year=1819|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CbosAAAAMAAJ|format=google}} (lacks Mirabilia) *{{citation|editor-last=Stevenson |editor-first=Joseph |editor-link=Joseph Stevenson|title=Nennii Historia Britonum ad fidem codicum manuscriptorum|work=Publications of the English Historical Society|volume=4|publisher=sumptibus Societatis|year=1838|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VEUMAAAAIAAJ|format=google}} *{{citation|last=Giles |first=J. A. |author-link=<!--John Allen Giles--> |author-mask=[[John Allen Giles|Giles, J. A.]] ed., tr. |title=Nennius: Historia Britonum |work=Six Old English Chronicles |location=London |publisher=Henry G. Bohn |year=1847 |volume=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dsQ9AAAAcAAJ|format=google}} **[https://books.google.com/books?id=40AGAAAAQAAJ ''Nennius's History of the Britons'' (Giles tr.)] in ''Six Old English Chronicles'', 1, (1848) (Mirabilia section is edited but untranslated). * {{citation|editor-last=Petrie|editor-first=Henry|chapter=Nennius|title=Monumenta Historica Britannica|publisher=G. E. Eyre & W. Spottiswoode|year=1848}} *{{citation|last=Todd |first=James Henthorn |author-link=<!--James Henthorn Todd--> |author-mask=[[James Henthorn Todd|Todd, James Henthorn]] ed., tr. |title=Leabhar Breathnach annso sis (The Irish version of the Historia Britonum of Nennius)|location=Dublin|publisher=Irish Archaeological Society|year=1848|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rioNAAAAYAAJ|format=google}} (includes Mirabilia). *{{citation |editor-last=Mommsen |editor-first=Theodore |chapter=Historia Brittonvm cvm additamentis Nennii|title=Chronica Minora |volume=3 |pages=111β222|series=Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Auctorum Antiquissimi xiii |location=Berlin |publisher=Weidmann |year=1898 |url=https://archive.org/details/chronicaminorasa13momm/ |format=Internet Archive}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=YlAqAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA111 google] **[http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/histbrit.html Latin library] *{{citation|first=Arthur W. |last=Wade-Evans |author-link=<!--Arthur Wade-Evans--> |author-mask=[[Arthur Wade-Evans|Wade-Evans, Arthur W.]] ed., tr. |year=1938|title=Nennius's "History of the Britons", together with "The annals of the Britons" and "Court pedigrees of Hywel the Good", also "The story of the loss of Britain"|location=London|publisher=Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge}} *{{citation|editor-last=Morris |editor-first=John |author-link=<!--John Morris --> |author-mask=Morris, John, ed., tr. |title=British history; and the Welsh annals|year=1980|location=London and Chichester|publisher=Phillimore|series=History from the Sources|volume=8|isbn=978-0-8476-6264-7}} *{{citation|editor-last=Dumville|editor-first=David N.|year=1985|title=The Historia Brittonum: The Vatican Recension|location=Cambridge|publisher=D.S. Brewer|volume=3|isbn=0-85991-203-5|lccn=84024211}} *{{citation|editor-last=Dumville|editor-first=David N.|year=1988|title=The Historia Brittonum: The Chartres Recension|location=Cambridge|publisher=D.S. Brewer|volume=2|isbn=978-0859912020}} *[[wikisource:History of the Britons]] (tr., composite of Gunn, Giles, and others). === Secondary sources === ====General and dictionaries==== *{{citation|ref={{SfnRef|Lacy et al. edd.|1986}}|editor1-last=Lacy |editor1-first=Norris J. |editor1-link=Norris J. Lacy |editor2-last=Ashe |editor2-first=Geoffrey |editor2-link=Geoffrey Ashe |editor3-last=Ihle |editor3-first=Sandra Ness |editor3-link=<!--Sandra Ness Ihle --> |editor4-last=Kalinke |editor4-first=Marianne E. |editor4-link=<!--Marianne E. Kalinke--> |editor5-last=Thompson |editor5-first=Raymond H. |editor5-link=Raymond H. Thompson |year=1986|title=The Arthurian Encyclopedia |location=New York |publisher=Garland |isbn=0-87226-164-6|author-link=Norris J. Lacy|url=}} (Reprint, paperback: {{URL|1=https://archive.org/details/arthurianencyclo00lacy|2=preview}}, Peter Bedrick Books, 1987) *{{citation|ref={{SfnRef|Lacy et al. edd.|1991}}|editor1-last=Lacy |editor1-first=Norris J. |editor1-link=Norris J. Lacy |editor2-last=Ashe |editor2-first=Geoffrey |editor2-link=Geoffrey Ashe |editor3-last=Ihle |editor3-first=Sandra Ness |editor3-link=<!--Sandra Ness Ihle --> |editor4-last=Kalinke |editor4-first=Marianne E. |editor4-link=<!--Marianne E. Kalinke--> |editor5-last=Thompson |editor5-first=Raymond H. |editor5-link=Raymond H. Thompson |title=The New Arthurian Encyclopedia|location=New York |publisher=Garland |year=1991 |isbn=0-8240-4377-4|author-link=Norris J. Lacy|url=https://archive.org/details/newarthurianency00lacy}}; *{{citation|last=Koch |first=John Thomas |author-link=John T. Koch |title=Celtic culture: a historical encyclopedia|year=2006|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-85109-440-0|pages=925β|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f899xH_quaMC|format=preview}} ====Manuscript catalogues==== * {{cite web|title=Manuscripts Catalogue|publisher=British Library|url=http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/manuscripts/main.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130815223808/http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/manuscripts/main.asp|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-08-15|access-date=2012-03-07}} * {{citation|last=Hardy|first=Thomas Duffus|title=Descriptive catalogue of materials relating to the history of Great Britain|volume=1, part 1|year=1862|location=Longman|publisher=Longman|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Mo9dzBFtQEC|format=google}} ( Rolls Series:Rerum Britannicarum medii Γvi Scriptores (Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages)), p. 318- (#776-). ====Critical studies==== *{{citation |last=Alcock |first=Leslie |author-link=Leslie Alcock |title=Arthur's Britain: History and Archaeology AD 367-634| year=1971 |location=London |publisher=Penguin}} *{{citation |last=Bromwich |first=Rachel |author-link=Rachel Bromwich |year=2006 |title=Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain |publisher=University Of Wales Press |isbn=0-7083-1386-8}} *{{citation|last=Dumville|first=David N.|year=1974|title=Some aspects of the chronology of the ''Historia Brittonum''|journal=Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies|volume=25|issue=4|pages=439β45}} *{{citation|last=Fletcher|first=Robert Huntington|title=The Arthurian material in the chronicles|work=Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature|volume=10|year=1906|pages=32β4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CdwWAAAAYAAJ|format=google}} [https://archive.org/details/arthurianmateri00fletgoog Alt URL], *{{citation|last=Green |first=Thomas |author-link=<!--Thomas Green--> |year=2007 |title=Concepts of Arthur |location=Stroud, Gloucestershire |publisher=Tempus |isbn=978-0-7524-4461-1}} *{{citation|last=Higham |first=N.J. |author-link=N. J. Higham |year=2002|title='King Arthur: Myth Making and History|location=London|publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul}} *{{citation|last=Liebermann |first=Felix |author-link=Felix Liebermann |title=Nennius the author of the Historia Brittonum|work=Essays in Medieval History presented to T. F. Tout|location= Manchester|year=1925|pages=25β44|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EjKg3UoCJeIC&pg=PA25|format=preview|isbn=9780836904277}} *{{citation |last=Mackillop |first=James |author-link=James MacKillop (author) |year=2004 |chapter=Historia Brittonum |title=A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology |edition=online |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780198609674 |chapter-url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198609674.001.0001/acref-9780198609674}})
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