09-08-2006, 08:35 AM
Quote: Another difficulty stems from the limited number of contemporary sources: Gildas' Ruination of Britain and the Cambrian Chronicles being about all to survive from Sixth Century Britannia. Therefore, an added difficulty might be transliteration of names phoenetically from one language to another. Gildas wrote in Latin and the Chronicles in Brythonic (I believe; I haven't learned how to research while in the "reply" mode).
Full titles:
Gildas: De excidio et conquestu Brtitanniae: On the ruin and conquest of the Britains (yes, plural).
Annales Cambriae: The Welsh Annals.
Gildas is a 6th c. source, the AC are usually dated to the 10th c., but we don’t know when the first entries were made and from what sources. The earliest entry is usually dated to 447 AD but we don’t know if there was a 5th c. chronicle at the basis. By themselves, the AC were not started as a chronicle in the 5th c.
Both were written in Latin. My pages about them:
Gildas’ DEB: http://www.vortigernstudies.org.uk/arth ... tesgil.htm
AC: http://www.vortigernstudies.org.uk/artsou/annales.htm
Robert Vermaat
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MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
