Nennius

13 "Much later came the Scots from parts of Spain to
Ireland. First came Partholomus with a thousand
persons, both men and women, and they increased to
four thousand persons, and there came a pestilence
upon them, and in one week they all persihed, and
there remained not even one of them. Second came
Nimeth (or Nimech) to Ireland, son of Agnomen, who is
reported to have navigated on the ewa for a year and a
half, and afterwards took port in Ireland with his
vessels broken, and there abode for many years, and
again set sail with his followers and returned to Spain.
And afterwards came three sons of a soldier of Spain
with thirty keels with them and with thirty wives in
every keel, and there they remained for the space of
one year.
And afterwards they saw a glassy tower in the
midst of the sea, and they used to see persons on the
tower and sought to speak to them, and never did they
reply. And after one year they hastened to attack the
tower with all their keels and with all their women,
except one keel which was broken in shipwreck, wherein
were thirty men and so many women.
And the other ships sailed to attack the tower, and
when all had disembarked on the shore which was about
the tower, the sea overwhelmed them and they were
drowned, and none of them escaped. And from the
household of that keel which was left owing to the
wreck the whole of Ireland was filled even to this day.
And afterwards they arrived by degrees from parts of
Spain and held very many regions.

14 Last of all came one Hoctor, who continued there, and
whose descendants rmain there to this day. Istoreth,
the son of Istorinus, with his fallowers, held Dalrieta;
Builc had the is- land Eubonia, and other adjacent
places. The sons of Liethali obtained the country of the
Dimetae, where is a city called Manavia and the province
of Giheir and Cequell, which they held till they were
expelled from every part of Britain by Ceunedda and his
sons.

15 If anyone would wish to know when or at what time
Ireland was uninhabited and waste, thus have the most
learned of the Scots informed me. When the children of
Israel came through the Red Sea, the Egyptians arrived
and pursued them and were drowned, as is read in the
law. There was a nobleman of Scythia among the
Egyptians with a great house-host, and he was driven
from his kingdom, and was there when the Egyptians
were drowned, and went not forth to pursue the people
of God. Those who survived took counsel to expel him,
lest he should attack and seize their kingdom, because
their strong men had been drowned in the Red Sea;
and he was expelled. And he for forty-two years
wandered in Africa, and they came to the altars of the
Philistines through the Lake of the Salt-pits, and came
between Rusicada and the mountains of Azaria, and came
by the river Malva and crossed over through Maritana
to the Pillars of Hercules; and they sailed the Tyrrhene
Sea and arrived as far as Spain, and dwelt there for
many years and increased and multiplied exceedingly
and their race was multiplied exceedingly.
And afterwards they came to Ireland after a
thousand and two years from when the Egyptians were
drowned in the Red Sea, and to the regions of Dalrieta
in the time when Brutus was reigning among the
Romans, from whom the consuls began to be, then the
tribunes of the people and the dictators.

"Historiam Britonum"
Nennius
Trojan legend of the Britons

10. Respecting the period when this island became inhabited
subsequently to the flood, I have seen two distinct
relations. According to the annals of the Roman History,
the Britons deduce their origin both from the Greeks
and Romans. On the side of the mother, from Lavinia,
the daughter of Latinus, king of Italy, and of the race
of Silvanus, the son of Inachus, the son of Dardanus;
who was the son of Saturn, king of the Greeks, and
who, having possessed himself of a part of Asia, built
the city of Troy. Dardanus was the father of Troius,
who was the father of Priam and Anchises; Anchises
was the father of Aeneas, who was the father of
Ascanius and Silvius; and this Silvius was the son of
Aeneas and Lavinia, the daughter of the king of Italy.
From the sons of Aeneas and Lavinia descended Romulus
and Remus, who were the sons of the holy queen Rhea,
and the foundrs of Rome. Brutus was consul when he
conquered Spain, and reduced that country to a Roman
province. He afterwards subdued the island of Britain,
whose inhabitants were the descendants of the Romans,
Silvius Posthumous. He was called Posthumous because
he was born after the death of Aeneas his father; and
his mother Lavinia concealed herself during her
pregnancy; he was called Silvius, because he was born
in a wood. Hence the Roman kings were called Silvan,
and the Britons who sprang from him; but they were
called Britons from Brutus, and rose from the family of
Brutus.
Aeneas, after the Trojan war, arrived with his son
in Italy; and having vanquished Turnus, married
Lavinia, the daughter of King Latinus, who was the son
of Faunus, the son of Picus, the son of Saturn. After
the death of Latinus, Aeneas obtained the kingdom of
the Romans, and Lavinia brought forth a son, who was
named Slivius. Ascanius founded Alba, and afterwrads
married. And Lavinia bore to Aeneas a son, named
Silvius; but Ascanius married a wife, who conceived
and became pregnant. And Aeneas, having been
informed that his daughter-in-law was pregnant,
ordered his son to send his magician to ecamine his
wife, whether the child conceived were male or female.
The magician came and examined the wife and
pronounced it to be a son, who should become the most
valiant among the Italians, and the most beloved of all
men (other Mss. Who should slay his father and
mother, and be hated by all mankind). In consequence
of this prediction, the magician was put to death by
Ascanius, but it happened that the mother of the child
dying at its birth, he was named Brutus; and after a
certain interval, agreeably to what the magician had
foretold, whilst he was playing with some others he shot
his father with an arrow, not intentionally, but by
accident. He was, for this cause, expelled from Italy,
and came to the islands of the Tyrrhene Sea, when he
was exiled on account of the death of Turnus, slain by
Aeneas. He then went among the Gauls, and built the
city of the Torones, called Turnia. At length he came to
this island, named from him Britania, dwelt there, and
filled it with his own descendants, and it has been
inhabited from that time to the present period.

12. After an interval of not less than eight hundred years,
came the Picts, and occupied the Orkney Islands;
whence they laid waste many regions, and seized those
on the left hand side of Britain, where they still remain,
keeping possession of a third part of Britain to this
day.

17. I have learned another account of this Brutus from the
ancient books of our ancestors. After the deluge, the
three sons of Noah severally occupied three different
parts of the earth: Shem extended his borders into
Asia, Ham into Africa, and Japheth into Europe.
The first man that dwelt in Europe was Alanus, with
his three sons, Hisicion, Armenon, and Neugio. Hisicion
had four sons, Francus, Romanus, Alamanus, and Brutus.
Armenon had five sons, Gothus, Valagothus, Cibidus,
Burgundus, and Longobardus. Neugio had three sons,
Vandalus, Saxo, and Boganus. From Hisicion arose four
nations - the Franks, the Latins, the Germans, and the
Britons; from Armenon, the gothi, Valagothi, Cividi,
Brudundi, and Longobardi; from Neugio, the Bogari,
Vandali, Saxones, and Tarinegi. The whole of Europe
was subdivided into these tribes.
Alanus is said to have been the son of Fethuir;
Fethuir, the son of Ogomuin, who ws the son of Thoi;
Thoi was the son of Boibus, Boibus of Semion, Semion of
Mair, Mair of Bethactus, Bethactus of Aurthack, Aurthack
of Ethec, Ethec of Aoth, Aoth of Aber, Aber of Ra, Ra of
Esraa, Esraa of Hisrau, Hisrau of Bath, Bath of Jobath,
Jobath of Joham, Joham of Japheth, Japheth of Noah,
Noah of Lamech, Lamech of Mathusalem, Mathusalem of
Enoch, Enoch of Jared, Jared of Malalehel, Malalehal of
Cainan, Cainan of Enos, Enos of Seth, Seth of Adam, and
Adam was forned by the living God. We have obtained
this information respecting the original inhabitants of
Britain from ancient tradition.

18. The Britons were thus called from Brutus; Brutus was
the son of Hisicion, Hisicion was the son of Alanus,
Alanus was the son of Rhea Silvia, Rhea Silvia was the
daughter of Numa Pompilius, Numa was the son of
Ascanius, Ascanius of Eneas, Eneas of Anchises, Anchises
of Troius, Troius of Dardanus, Dardanus of Flisa, Flisa
of Juuin, Juuin of Japheth; but Japheth had seven
sons; from the first, named Magog, the Scythia and
Gothi; from the third, Madian, the Medi; from the
fourth, Juuan, the Greeks; fromt he fifth, Tubal, arose
the Hebrei, Hispani and Itali; from the sixth, Mosoch,
sprung the Cappadocces; and from the seventh, named
Tiras, descended the Thraces; these are the sons of
Japheth, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech.