title: An Introduction to Early Modern English (Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language)
author: Terrtu Nevalainen
description: <br /><strong>Terttu Nevalainen</strong> is Professor of English Philology at the University of Helsinki, and has taught the history of English in Finland and in England. She is currently the director of the Research Unit for Variation and Change in English and takes an active interest in developing electronic text corpora for linguistic research.<br />
zlib_text: History Of The Britons
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  History Of The Britons
  Nennius
  Translated by J. A. Giles
  
  History Of The Britons
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  I. The Prologue.
  1. Nennius, the lowly minister and servant of the servants of God, by
  the grace of God, disciple of St. Elbotus,* to all the followers of truth
  sendeth health. * Or Elvod, bishop of Bangor, A.D. 755, who first adopted
  in the Cambrian church the new cycle for regulating Easter.
  Be it known to your charity, that being dull in intellect and rude of
  speech, I have presumed to deliver these things in the Latin tongue, not
  trusting to my own learning, which is little or none at all, but partly from
  traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the
  ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and
  the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymus, Prosper,
  Eusebius, and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons, although our
  enemies, not following my own inclinations, but, to the best of my ability,
  obeying the comma