"Their leader was Ambrosius Aurelianus, a gentleman who, perhaps alone of the Romans, had survived the shock of this notable storm...Under him our people regained their strength, and challenged the victors to battle. The Lord assented, and the battle went their way.
From then on victory when now to our countrymen, now to their enemies...This lasted right up till the year of the seige of Badon Hill, pretty well the last defeat of the villains, and certainly not the least. That was the year of my birth; as I know, one month of forty-fourth year since then has already passed."
Gildas The Ruin of Britain (Morris 1978:28) "The Britons maintain that, Gildas criticised his own people so bitterly, he wrote as he did because he was so infuriated by the fact that King Arthur had killed his own brother, who was a Scottish chieftan. When he heard the news of his brother's death, or so the Britons say, he threw into the sea a number of outstanding books which he had written in their praise and about Arthur's achievements. As a result you will find no book which gives an authentic account of that great prince."
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