These sources include accounts of a Welsh monk named Gildas, the Venerable Bede, and others. Secondly, an overview of Nennius’ sources will be provided and, in a further step, successively analysed in more detail. Its structure, content, and, most importantly in terms of historical accuracy, its origin and development will be reviewed and classified, not only in the context of the emergence of the Arthurian legend but also in terms of real historical events. Therefore, this paper will, firstly, give a brief account of the Historia Brittonum. The aim of this paper is to give an account of the historical reliability of Nennius’ Historia Brittonum (History of the Britons) as it is one of the earliest sources in which a person called Arthur is mentioned. The historical Arthur: Nennius’ sources and their implications for the historical reliability of his account of School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics
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