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History of the Britons. The Life of Merlin

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Galfrid of Monmouth presented the History of the Britons as a true history of Britain from its settlement by Brutus, a descendant of the Trojan hero Aeneas, to the death of Cadwaladr in the seventh century. Specifically, this work contains stories of Caesar's invasion, Leir and Cymbeline (retold by Shakespeare in King Lear and Cymbeline), and King Arthur. Halfrid claims that their source was "a certain very ancient book in the language of the Britons" which he was supposedly given by Walter of Oxford, but the very existence of this book is doubted by most scholars. The "History..." contains almost no historical information proper, and already in 1190 William of Newburgh wrote: "It is quite clear that everything written by this man about Arthur and his heirs, and his predecessors from Vortigern, was invented partly by himself, partly by others - either out of an irrepressible love of lies, or to amuse the Britons".
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