Armes Prydein as a Legacy of Gildas
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Olson, LynetteAbstract
Roughly four centuries separate Gildas’ De excidio Britanniae (‘On the Downfall of Britain’) and Armes Prydein (‘The Prophecy of Britain’). This is not to say that tenth-century people couldn’t understand what Gildas was about. No one does it better than Wulfstan, when he writes in Sermo lupi ad Anglos (‘Sermon of the Wolf to the English’):Roughly four centuries separate Gildas’ De excidio Britanniae (‘On the Downfall of Britain’) and Armes Prydein (‘The Prophecy of Britain’). This is not to say that tenth-century people couldn’t understand what Gildas was about. No one does it better than Wulfstan, when he writes in Sermo lupi ad Anglos (‘Sermon of the Wolf to the English’):
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Date
2020-01-01Source title
Prophecy, Fate and Memory in the Early and Medieval Celtic WorldPublisher
Sydney University PressLicence
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Philosophical and Historical InquiryDepartment, Discipline or Centre
Department of HistoryShare