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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- English chronicler whose semihistorical Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1139) popularized Arthurian legend and contains the source material for several of Shakespeare's plays.
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- noun Welsh chronicler who wrote an account of the kings of Britain which is now believed to contain little historical fact but it is a source of the Arthurian legend (circa 1100-1154)
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The Saxons eventually turned on him and Vortigern met his death in a blazing castle tower in Wales at the hands of Geoffrey of Monmouth, although some sources claim that the tower was mysteriously struck by lightning, catching it on fire.
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The Saxons eventually turned on him and Vortigern met his death in a blazing castle tower in Wales at the hands of Geoffrey of Monmouth, although some sources claim that the tower was mysteriously struck by lightning, catching it on fire.
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The story behind the legend of King Arthur was first introduced by Geoffrey of Monmouth, a writer whose "History of the Kings of Britain" was among the most popular books of the Middle Ages, though it was largely fictitious.
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Geoffrey of Monmouth cheekily pinched this tale with the throwaway comment 'also called Merlin' and thus Merlin the Magician evicted Ambrosius from that part of the legend.
Merlin Trilogy, by Mary Stewart. Book review Carla 2007
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It's Geoffrey of Monmouth who makes Arthur the star, though presumably he was drawing on tradition as well as his own fertile imagination, and then the French romancers carried on from there.
Merlin Trilogy, by Mary Stewart. Book review Carla 2007
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The story behind the legend of King Arthur was first introduced by Geoffrey of Monmouth, a writer whose "History of the Kings of Britain" was among the most popular books of the Middle Ages, though it was largely fictitious.
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_HRB_ _Historia Regum Britanniae_ (Geoffrey of Monmouth) _Hubberd_ _Mother Hubberds Tale_ (Spenser) intr. intransitive, intransitively
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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Robert, a monk of Gloucester Abbey, is noted for his reproduction of the history of Geoffrey of Monmouth, already presented by Wace in French, and by Layamon in Saxon-English.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee
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According to Geoffrey of Monmouth it was founded by Hudibras, son of the builder of
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes
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Shaftesbury had been a stronghold from the earliest times, and so long ago, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth, who was born A.D. 1100, that an
From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor
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