Vortigern
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The sources on Vortigern Robert Vermaat
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On this
page, I've collected a few quotes on Vortigern and
Vitalinus from the original Latin texts. Though I am
discussing all sources in full elsewhere, the full text
in English from most of these sources can be found on the
following pages.
GILDAS,
"De excidio et conquestu Britanniae",
chapter 13.1
Tum omnes
consiliarii una cum superbo tyranno Vertigerno caecantur, adinvenientes tale
praesidium, immo excidium patriae ut ferocissimi illi
nefandi nominis Saxones deo hominibusque invisi, quasi in
caulas lupi, in insulam ad retundendas aquilonales gentes
intromitterentur.
A
full English text of part of Gildas' book can be found on
the following page.
BEDE,
"De Tempore Ratione", chapter 3
Quos [Anglos] illi
unanimo consilio cum rege suo Vertigerno [sic] quasi defensores patriae
ad se invitandos elegerunt.
BEDE,
"Historia Ecclesiastica Gentia Anglorum",
book 1, chapter 14
initum namque est
consilium, quid agendum..., placuitque omnibus cum suo
rege Uurtigerno...
A
full English text of part of Bede's book can be found on
the following page.
Early
British Chronicle
Annos
ccccxlviiii Martinus cum Valentiniano imperium suscipiens
et vii annis tenuit; quorum tempore Angli, a Uuertigerno Brittonum rege arcessiti,
Brittaniam adierunt quorum dux erat Hengist filius Ohta.
'NENNIUS',
"Historia Brittonum", chapter 31
Guorthigirnus regnavit in Brittannia, et dum
ipse regnabat in Brittannia, urgebatur a metu Pictorum
Scottorumque et a Romanico impetu, nec non et a timore Ambrosii.
'NENNIUS',
"Historia Brittonum", chapter 39
Nam, super omnia
mala adjiciens, Guorthigirnus accepit filiam sui uxorem sibi, et
peperit ei filium.
'NENNIUS',
"Historia Brittonum", chapter 47
Tres filius habuit,
quorem nomina sunt Guorthemir.., secundus Categirn,
tertius Pascent...Quartus fuit Faustus.
'NENNIUS',
"Historia Brittonum", chapter 49
Guorthigirn
Guortheneu,
filius Guitaul, filii Guitolin.
'NENNIUS',
"Historia Brittonum", chapter 66
Et a regno Guorthigirni usque ad discordiam Guitolini et Ambrosii anni sunt XII, quod est Guoloppum, id est
Catguoloph. Guorthigirnus autem tenuit imperium in Brittannia
Theodosio ei Valentiniano consilibus, et in quarto anno
regni sui Saxones ad Brittanniam venerunt, Felice et
Tauro consilibus, cccc anno ab incarnatione Domini nostri
Jesu Christi.
A
full English text of part of the Historia Brittonum can
be found on the following page.
Pillar
of Elise
Britu autem
filius Guarthi(girn) quem benedixit Germanus quemque
peperit ei Sevira filia Maximi regis qui occidit regem
Romanorum.
A
full English text of the text on the Pillar of Elise can
be found on the following page.
MS
Cotton Vespasian B, chapter 6
Quando Gratianus
consul fuit secundo et Equitius quarta, tunc his
consolibus Saxones a Wyrtgeorno in Brittannia suscepti sunt,
anno .ccc .xxlviiii a passio ne Christi.
GEOFFREY
OF MONMOUTH, "Historia Regum Britanniae",
book 6, chapter 2-6
Inito itaque consilo
transfretauit Guithelinus lundoniensis archiepiscopus....
...eliguntur ex diuersis partibusregni milites & Guithelino traduntur..
Tunc defunctus fuerat Guithelinus archiepiscopus.
GEOFFREY
OF MONMOUTH, "Historia Regum Britanniae",
book 6, chapter 6 - book 8, chapter 2
Accessit Uortigernus consul Gewissorum...Uortigernus ergo per illos uictoria
potitus donaria sua ampliauit eis atque duci eorum
Hengisto dedit agros plurimos in Lindesia...At Uortegirnus diffugiebat consilio
eorum adquiescere quia super omnes gentes propter
coniugem suam ipsos diligebat. Quod cum uidissent
Britones deseruerunt ilico Uortegirnum & unanimiter Uortimer...
Quod cum alimentum reperisset non adquieuit diunctus
donec turrim & Uortegirnum exarsit.
A
full English text of part of Geoffrey's' book can be
found on the following page.
Bibliography 
- Bede: Ecclesiastical History of
the English People, trans. Leo Shirley-Price, (St
Ives 1990).*
- Bede the Venerable: Historia Ecclesiastica
Gentis Anglorum: The History of the Primitive
Church of England, transl. the rev. William
Hurst, 1814, http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/St.Pachomius/bede.html.
- Dumville, David N.:
A new
chronicle-fragment of early British history, in:
English Historical Review LXXXVII, 1973, pp.
312-314.*
- Dumville, David N.:
Kingship,
genealogies and regnal lists, in: Sawyer, P.H.:
Early Medieval Kingship, (Leeds, 1977), pp.
72-104.*
- Geoffrey of
Monmouth: The
History of the Kings of Britain, trans. Lewis
Thorpe, (Penguin, St Ives 1966).*
- Geoffrey of
Monmouth:
The Historia Regum Britanniae, trans. John Allan
Giles, in: Six Old English Chronicles, of
which two are now first translated from the
monkish Latin originals (London, George Bell
and Sons, 1891), full text (English) at http://camelot.celtic-twilight.com/hrb/index.htm.
- Gildas: The Ruin of Britain and
other works, Latin and trans. M. Winterbottom,
History from the Sources VII, (Old Woking 1978).*
- Gildas The de excidio Britonum
(The Ruin of Britain): ed. and Latin Keith
Matthews (2000), based on Mommsen's version, at: http://www.kmatthews.org.uk/history/gildas/frames.html
- Gildas: De Excidio Brittonum,
trans. John Allan Giles, in: Six Old English
Chronicles, of which two are now first translated
from the monkish Latin originals (London,
George Bell and Sons, 1891), full text (English)
at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/gildas-full.html.
- Nennius: British History and the
Welsh Annals, Latin and trans. John Morris,
History from the Sources VIII, (Chichester
1980).*
- Nennius: The Historia Brittonum: ed. Theodor Mommsen, at: http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/histbrit.html.
- Nennius: The Historia Brittonum:
ed. and Latin Keith Matthews (2000), based on
Mommsen's version, at: http://www.kmatthews.org.uk/history/hb/historia_brittonum1.html.
- Nennius: The Historia Brittonum,
trans. John Allan Giles, in: Six Old English
Chronicles, of which two are now first translated
from the monkish Latin originals (George
Bell and Sons, London 1891), full text (English),
formerly at
http://www.littlebohemia.org/nennius.html.
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