placearthurian

Britannia (Britain)

[0041.1] Britain is connected to specific circumstances described in the verse

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[0041.0] Particular sea creatures are catalogued with their remarkable properties (Vita Merlini, Vita Merlini > Reunion and Return to Court)

[0041.1] Britain is connected to specific circumstances described in the verse (Vita Merlini, Vita Merlini > Reunion and Return to Court)

[0041.2] Particular sea creatures are catalogued with their remarkable properties (Vita Merlini, Vita Merlini > Reunion and Return to Court)

[0041.3] The arrangement of celestial bodies and heavens is explained (Vita Merlini, Vita Merlini > Reunion and Return to Court)

[0041.4] Questions of sovereignty and succession are addressed (Vita Merlini, Vita Merlini > Reunion and Return to Court)

Vita Merlini

  • attestation: [0041.0] Particular sea creatures are catalogued with their remarkable properties (Vita Merlini > Reunion and Return to Court)

    "« His Deus ac aliis ditavit piscibus æquor; Adjecitque suis plures in fructibus orbes, Quos labitant homines profertilitate reperta, Quam producit ibi fœcundo cespite tellus."

  • attestation: [0041.1] Britain is connected to specific circumstances described in the verse (Vita Merlini > Reunion and Return to Court)

    "Quarum prima quidem meliorque Britannia fertur, Ubertate sua producens singula rerum : Fert etenim segetes quæ nobile munus odoris Usibus humanis tribuunt, reddendo per annum ;"

  • attestation: [0041.2] Particular sea creatures are catalogued with their remarkable properties (Vita Merlini > Reunion and Return to Court)

    "Silvas et saltus, et ab hiis stillantia mella, Aerios montes, lateque virentia prata, Fontes et fluvios, pisces, pecudesque, ferasque, Arboreos fructus, gemmas, preciosa metalla,"

  • attestation: [0041.3] The arrangement of celestial bodies and heavens is explained (Vita Merlini > Reunion and Return to Court)

    "Et quicquid præstare solet natura creatrix. Præterea fontes unda fervente salubres, Quæ fovet ægrotos et balnea grata ministrat, At subito sanos pellit, languore repulso."

  • attestation: [0041.4] Questions of sovereignty and succession are addressed (Vita Merlini > Reunion and Return to Court)

    "Sic ac blandus " eos regni dum sceptra teneret Constituit nomenque suæ consortis Alaron. Utilis ad plures laticis medicamine morbos, Set mage femineos, ut sæpius unda probavit."

Appears in: Places, Entities in Vita Merlini, Arthurian Tradition