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Some verses of a 13th c. hand about the etymology of "Brito":
...Quis pater et quis avus, quod erat genus, unde Britanni,
Que fuga, que procerum fata fuere, canam.
Tu, mihi, Clio, fave, fer opem, modulare canora
Verba lira; totus spiret Apollo mihi.
A Bruto Brito nomen, genus a generose
Stirpe gerit, generis Dardanus auctor erat.
A duce Dardanii sumpserunt nomen, ab Ylo
Ylion, a Troe Troja vocata fuit...
These distichs, composed in about 1180, are part of a 13th c. manuscript
(MS London Codex B.M. Cotton Vesp. AXf45v-f52r). The elegiac poem of 654
lines was dedicated to Hugh of Puiset, bishop of Durham. (published by
Schmidt, P.G., Brutus - eine metrische Paraphrase der Historia Regum
Britannie, MLJB 11, 1976, p. 201ff.). In this poem, the
anonymous author argued about the mythological origin of the British rulers
and combined some motives from the "Historia Troyana" of Darius Phrygius
with the Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Greetings
WR
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