Brutus Of Troy: First King Of Britain Or Just A Myth?
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Whether Brutus of Troy was Britain's first king and London's founder remains a controversial subject debated among scholars. Yet some consider the story of Brutus of Troy a historical account based on actual events. It is a fascinating story originating from intriguing myths.
According to medieval legend, the founder and first king of Britain was the Trojan exile Brutus of Troy, said to be the descendant of the Trojan hero Aeneas.
The legend first appears in the Historia Britonum, a 9th-century historical compilation attributed to the Welsh monk Nennius.
Geoffrey of Monmouth provides a similar, but more detailed, account in his 12th-century work Historia Regum Britanniae.
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