Historia brittonum. Testo latino a fronte

Nennius wrote this brief history of the Britons around 828 AD, although his prologue implies it was written in 858, and elsewhere it is implied it was compiled in the tenth century. Since it went through the hands of multiple scribes over the years it is possible that certain sections were written a Leggi tutto

Usual caveats: I'm not considering the historical or philological value of the work, but is it a good read? Well, no. The author's intention has been to put down everything he knew, and this he does in an almost stream of consciousness fashion. The text is full of repetition and contradiction. Inter Leggi tutto

It's a bit of a struggle, reading J.A. Giles' translation of the Historia Brittonum , to know whether the difficulties and inconsistencies are the result of the original manuscript, the translator, or the conversion of the book to a free ebook publication. From what I can gather from the commentary w Leggi tutto

Probably quite inaccurate. Good effort though Nennius.

I was going to move on to Le Morte d'Arthur but the book I found had 1300 pages! Is it really that long? It doesn't look that long... So I saw this has 50 pages and was sold. While Monmouth thought he was the Homer of Britain, Nennius was very apologetic of his ignorance and deeply religious. This hi Leggi tutto

I read this with the intention of reading original source material of King Arthur. Overall I did enjoy it, although the majority of the Historia is about the lineage gymnastics used to trace back Briton kings back to Jerusalem. Some stuff about saints, names of the indigenous people of Briton, which Leggi tutto