Brutus, also called Brute of Troy, is a mythical British king. He is described as a legendary descendant of the Trojan hero Aeneas, known in medieval...
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Brutus, after whom Britain is supposedly named, a tradition previously recorded in less elaborate form in the 9th century Historia Brittonum. Brutus is...
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English mythology (redirect from Mythology of England)
metrical romances which bear his name. Brutus of Troy, or Brute of Troy (dates to the 9th century: Legendary descendant of the Trojan hero Aeneas, known in...
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stories of Brutus of Troy, Coel Hen, Leir of Britain (King Lear), and Gogmagog. The legendary history of Britain was created partly to form a body of patriotic...
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Gogmagog (giant) (section Geoffrey of Monmouth)
companion of Brutus of Troy). Gogmagog was the last of the Giants found by Brutus and his men inhabiting the land of Albion. The effigies of Gogmagog and...
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up Brutus or brutus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Brutus is a Latin surname, which usually refers to Marcus Junius Brutus (85–42 BC), one of the...
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Pandrasus several generations later, when they were liberated by Brutus of Troy. List of children of Priam The Golden Bough (mythology) Sophocles, Philoctetes...
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the great city of Troy falls, undone as much by Ariadne's revenge as by Greek cunning. Among the scattered Trojans wanders one man, Brutus, who carries...
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Logres (category Geoffrey of Monmouth)
Locrinus, the oldest son of Brutus of Troy. In his Historia, Geoffrey uses the word "Loegria" to describe a province containing most of England excluding Cornwall...
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the daughter of King Pandrasus, and to have become Britain's first Queen consort as the wife of Brutus of Troy, the purported first king of Britain who...
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