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4 unusual facts about Brut y Brenhinedd


Brut y Brenhinedd

In most every manuscript, it is preceded by the Ystorya Dared, i.e. a Welsh translation of the De Excidio Troiae ascribed to Dares Phrygius, and followed by the Brut y Tywysogyon.

Yet it has the distinct quality of being the first Brut to incorporate the tale Lludd and Llefelys.

The version known as the Brut Tysilio, attributed to the 7th-century Welsh saint Tysilio, became more widely known when its text was published in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, a once-influential collection of Welsh literary material whose credibility has suffered due the involvement of the antiquarian forger Iolo Morganwg, in 1801-1807.

Walter of Oxford

Walter's name is attached to the Brut Tysilio, a variant of the Welsh chronicle Brut y Brenhinedd.



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