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Note to GunnLeif Merl I 73VIII

[All]: Cf. DGB 115 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 149.117-18; cf. Wright 1988, 106, prophecy 21): Tremebunt illum Arabes et Affricani; nam impetum cursus sui in ulteriorem Hispaniam protendet ‘The Arabs and Africans will tremble before him; for his charge will carry him all the way to the further regions of Spain’ (cf. Reeve and Wright 2007, 148). Geoffrey appears to envisage an Arthur-like British conqueror (cf. sts 24-7); he repeats the boar-king allegorisation used of Arthur.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Reeve, Michael D., and Neil Wright. 2007. Geoffrey of Monmouth. The History of the Kings of Britain. An Edition and Translation of De gestis Britonum [Historia regum Britanniae]. Woodbridge: Boydell.
  3. Wright, Neil, ed. 1988. The Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth. II. The First Variant Version: A Critical Edition. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer.

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