[266] Guiher, probably the Welsh district Gower. Cetgueli is Caer Kidwelly, in Carmarthenshire.
[267] North-western part of Antrim in Ulster.
[268] V.R. Columba.
[269] Some MSS. add, the beginning of the calculation is 23 cycles of 19 years from the incarnation of our Lord to the arrival of St. Patrick in Ireland, and they make 438 years. And from the arrival of St. Patrick to the cycle of 19 years in which we live are 22 cycles, which make 421 years.
[270] This proves the tradition of Brutus to be older than Geoffrey or Tyssilio, unless these notices of Brutus have been interpolated in the original work of Nennius.
[271] This genealogy is different in almost all the MSS.
[272] Some MSS. add, I will now return to the point from which I made this digression.
[273] There is here some corruption or defect in the original. See Geoffrey of Monmouth, p. 139 of this volume.
[274] V.R. Cassibelanus.
[275] V.R. Eucharistus. A marginal note in the Arundel MS. adds, "He is wrong, because the first year of Evaristus was a.d. 79, whereas the first year of Eleutherius, whom he ought to have named, was a.d. 161." Usher says, that in one MS. of Nennius he found the name of Eleutherius. See Bede's Eccles. Hist. p. 10.