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The History of the Kings of Britain

Geoffrey of Monmouth translated by Lewis Thorpe

Form
Form Non-fiction
Year
Year 1136
Originally in
Originally in Latin
Pages
Pages 380

Somewhere in twelfth-century Oxford, a Welsh cleric claimed that a friend had handed him a very ancient book in the British tongue, and that all he had done was put it into Latin. No one has ever found that book.

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The History of the Kings of Britain, Geoffrey of Monmouth translated by Lewis Thorpe

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