Editing Battle of Badon (section)

===Nennius and the Welsh Annals===
{{anchor|Arthur}}{{see also|Historicity of King Arthur}}

The earliest surviving text specifically mentioning Arthur in connection with the battle is the early 9th-century ''[[Historia Brittonum]]'' (''The History of the Britons''),<ref>The "[[s:Nennius (DNB00)|Nennius]]" entry of the [[Dictionary of National Biography]] credits an 11th-century Irish edition by Giolla Coemgin with being the oldest extant edition of the ''Historia Brittonum'', but it apparently only survived in a 14th-century copy. Cf. Todd, James. ''[https://archive.org/stream/irishversionofhi00toddrich#page/n9/mode/2up Irish version of the Historia Britonum of Nennius]''. Irish Archaeological Soc. (Dublin), 1848. Accessed 6 February 2013.</ref> attributed to the Welsh monk [[Nennius]], in which the soldier (Latin ''mīles'') Arthur is identified as the leader of the victorious British force at Badon:

{{quote|The twelfth battle was on Mount Badon in which there fell in one day 960 men from one charge by Arthur; and no one struck them down except Arthur himself.<ref>L. ''Duodecimum fuit bellum in monte Badonis, in quo corruerunt in uno die nongenti sexaginta viri de uno impetu Arthur; et nemo prostravit eos nisi ipse solus.'' Mommsen, Theodore (ed.) ''[http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/histbrit.html Historia Brittonum]''. Accessed 7 February 2013. {{in lang|la}}</ref><ref name=HBeng>Lupack, Alan (Trans.) ''The Camelot Project'': "[http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/nennius.htm From ''The History of the Britons'' (''Historia Brittonum'') by Nennius]". Retrieved 6 February 2013.</ref>}}

The Battle of Badon is next mentioned in the ''[[Annales Cambriae]]'' (''Annals of Wales''),<ref name=ACA/> assumed to have been written during the mid- to late-10th century. The entry states:

{{quote|The Battle of Badon, in which Arthur carried the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ for three days and three nights upon his shoulders [or shield<ref>The words for "shoulder" and "shield" being easily confused in [[Old Welsh]]: ''scuit'' (shield) vs. ''scuid'' (shoulder)]. Cf. Jones, W. Lewis. ''The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes'', [http://www.bartleby.com/211/1202.html Vol. I, XII, §2.] Putnam, 1921. Accessed 30 January 2013.</ref>] and the Britons were the victors.<ref>L. ''Bellum badonis inquo arthur portauit crucem domini nostri ihu xp'i . tribus diebus & tribus noctibus inhumeros suos & brittones uictores fuerunt.''</ref><ref name=ACAeng/>}}