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Brut y brenhinedd ‘Chronicle of the kings’

  • Middle Welsh
  • prose
  • Welsh chronicles

Collective title for multiple versions of a medieval Welsh translation/adaptation of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Brittanniae.

Scope
multiple versions
Manuscripts
Language
  • Middle Welsh
Form
prose (primary)

Classification

Welsh chroniclesWelsh chronicles
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Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] Roberts, Brynley F. [ed.], Brut y Brenhinedd: Llanstephan MS. 1 version, Mediaeval and Modern Welsh Series, 5, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1971.

Secondary sources (select)

Roberts, Brynley F., “Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae and Brut y Brenhinedd”, in: Rachel Bromwich, A. O. H. Jarman, and Brynley F. Roberts (eds), The Arthur of the Welsh. The Arthurian legend in medieval Welsh literature, 1, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1991. 97–116.
Russell, Paul, “What did medieval Welsh scribes do? The scribe of the Dingestow Court manuscript”, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 37 (Summer, 1999): 79–96.
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