The History of the Kings of Britain by
Geoffrey of Monmouth was accepted within the context of this development, for he tried to create a totally new version of the ecclesiastical history of the island, in the center of which a "Brittonic" church was placed.
As mentioned earlier, by Chaucer's time the story of Troy had already appeared in several book-length accounts in England, among which
Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae stood out in its consciously associating the founding of Britain with one of the Trojan descendants Brutus.
My favorite chapters are those on Shakespeare and
Geoffrey of Monmouth, perennially interesting subjects on which Mendenhall has new and fascinating things to say.
Geoffrey of Monmouth tells us that Brutus of Troy, father of 'Britain', divided his patrimony between his older son Locrinus who inherited what is now England and the younger Alba who received the lesser portion of Scotland.
Geoffrey of Monmouth, recording an ancient tradition, refers in his Vita Merlini to nine sisters who dwell on an island in the sea called 'The Fortunate Isle', or 'the Island of Apples.' He continues that:
Several have been released over the last few years, including his poem "The Fall of Arthur," set in the last days of Arthur's reign and inspired by
Geoffrey of Monmouth and Thomas Malory, "The Legend of Sigurd and Gudr?n" in 2009 and his unfinished Middle-Earth story
Although it was once understood to be a fragment lifted from the fifteenth-century Metrical Chronicle of John Harding, in 1980 Clifford Peterson put forward the hypothesis that the prophecy is an independent derivative of
Geoffrey of Monmouth's Prophetiae Merlini.
Forster,
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Henry Hazlitt, and Mark Twain.
Both of these references indicate the influence of
Geoffrey of Monmouth's work, presumably also of the 9th century Historia Britonum, which both contain accounts of Brutus as the founder of London.
Not sure of that but if you are believer in the Arthur stories then within Llandaff Cathedral is the tomb of the saint who according to the prime originator of the legends,
Geoffrey of Monmouth, actually crowned King Arthur at Caerleon.
Williams concludes by suggesting that much of the preChristian Celtic druidic tradition may have been invented by later medieval writers from
Geoffrey of Monmouth on, as a romanticizing of native traditions for the entertainment of later medieval and early modern readers.
Geoffrey of Monmouth and William Camden the author divides her text according to the standard regions because names tended to come in groups according to settlers.