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The history of England, from the earliest times to the Norman Conquest

Note 35 — Chapter VI · THE ANGLO-SAXON CONQUEST.

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Nennius makes such a muddle of his chronology that he virtually asserts that Christ was born A.D. 183; and he accepts the idle tales about Brutus, ancestor of the Britons, and descendant of Aeneas, which had been apparently fabricated by Irish students of Virgil two centuries before he wrote.

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