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Mirabilia

Geoffrey of Monmouth repeats the Mirabilia account in somewhat better Latin

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Geoffrey of Monmouth repeats the Mirabilia account in somewhat better Latin (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

On one of the caims on the mountain he discovered what may have been the very stone to which the Mirabilia story refers;* but the sketch with which he accompanied his communication cannot be said to b (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

  • attestation: Geoffrey of Monmouth repeats the Mirabilia account in somewhat better Latin (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

    "The passage (ยง 69) to which I refer is in the Mirabilia^ and Geoffrey of Monmouth is found to repeat it in a somewhat better style of Latin (ix. 7): the following is the Nennian version: โ€”"

  • attestation: On one of the caims on the mountain he discovered what may have been the very stone to which the Mirabilia story refers;* but the sketch with which he accompanied his communication cannot be said to b (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

    "On one of the caims on the mountain he discovered what may have been the very stone to which the Mirabilia story refers;* but the sketch with which he accompanied his communication cannot be said to be convincing, and he must have been drawing on his imagination when he spoke of this some-"