[37] Layamon, in his Brut (l. 28,533), is the first to locate the battle definitely at this place.
[38] Preface to Rolls Edition of Roger of Hoveden’s Chronicle.
[39] For an interesting comparison between the Chronicle and Nennius in respect to the Arthurian period, see Fletcher, Arthurian Matter in the Chronicles, pp. 21-23.
[40] The account of this incident is given in Migne’s Patrologia, 156, col. 983.
[41] Prophetia Anglicana, etc. (Frankfort, 1603), Bk. I. p. 17.
[42] Hist. Reg. Angl., Bk. III.
[43] Published in Rolls Series, Chronicles of Stephen, etc., iv. p. 65.
[44] Quoted from the Epilogue to the late Dr Sebastian Evans’s translation of Geoffrey’s History (Temple Classics, 1904).
[45] Lady Charlotte Guest’s translation contains twelve tales, but one of these, the History of Taliesin, is from a late sixteenth century MS. and has no claim to rank with the rest as a genuine mediæval production.
[46] Arthurian Legend, p. 6. “The Triads give us the oldest account of Arthur, and this now and then in a form which the story-tellers and romance-writers found thoroughly untractable and best ignored.”