Matter of Britain Figure
'Nennius'
- Summary
- The name traditionally attached to the Historia Brittonum, on the authority of a prologue now generally judged a later addition. Whoever compiled it gave Arthur his twelve battles and called him dux bellorum. Modern scholarship usually refers to the text rather than the man.
- Kind
- compiler
- Floruit
- c. 830
- Where scholars disagree
- The attribution to Nennius is doubted; David Dumville's work on the manuscript tradition is the standard reason why.
Worldviews
Provenance
- Source method
- Web research
- Review status
- DRAFT
- Confidence
- HIGH