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The History of the Kings of Britain: An Edition and Translation of the De gestis Britonum
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Michael D. Reeve, Neil Wright, 2007. Boydell Press.
The standard edition and translation of Geoffrey's Latin history, completed about 1136. Book VIII tells how Merlin brought the Giants' Dance, stones that giants had carried from Africa to Ireland, to Salisbury Plain as a memorial for Aurelius Ambrosius.
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The first written account of the Merlin story.
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Research copy, for editors and curators. The work is the publisher's, so readers are sent to it. We keep this copy so the citation can be checked if the page changes or goes.
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Geoffrey of Monmouth, Reeve, M. D., & Wright, N. (2007). The History of the Kings of Britain: An Edition and Translation of the De gestis Britonum. Boydell Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781846155567
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et al.. “The History of the Kings of Britain: An Edition and Translation of the De gestis Britonum.” Boydell Press (2007). https://doi.org/10.1515/9781846155567.