Daily Medieval

There is more to Loch Lomond than just being jealous of the notoriety of Loch Ness. In an 11th-century version of the Historia Brittonum , i...

In Part One we read about items in the Historia Brittonum  that concerned King Arthur and the city of Bath. The first one listed of the Mir...

Two later versions of the 9th century  Historia Brittonum  contained a section that is referred to as Mirabilia , "marvels" or ...

In a previous post I mentioned the old idea that Britain was founded by people who fled the Fall of Troy . This idea came from the Historia ...

Taliesin (6th century) came a legendary figure of whom many stories are told and to whom many poems are ascribed—(almost) all of it fiction....

The 9th-century Historia Brittonum  mentions five especially renowned British poets, one of whom is Taliesin. In the 12th century he was con...

The 9th century  Historia Brittonum (History of the Britons) tells of three invasions of Ireland from the Iberian Peninsula. The Partholón ...

Geoffrey of Monmouth may have been born in Monmouth, Wales, since he refers to himself that way (in Latin, he writes it "Galfridus Mone...

After Germanus defeated the Pelagians in Briton (through sheer force of his rhetorical skills, apparently, having studied eloquence and havi...

In 635 CE, St. Aidan (c.?-651) was sent from the monastery on the island of Iona by King Oswald to re-Christianize England. He chose to foun...