Nemius

Nemius, the reputed author of a Historia Britannum, evidently of Cymric origin. It gives the mythical account of the origin of the Britons, the Roman occupation, the settlement of the Saxons, and closes with the twelve victorious battles of King Arthur. The writer is extremely credulous and feeble in judgment, but he has preserved valuable fragments of earlier treatises. The name of Nennius occurs in two prologues extant, but these are suspiciously superior in style to the poor Latinity of the history itself. The text was edited by Stevenson for the English Historical Society in 1838. See De la Borderie's Historia Britannum (Paris, 1883), works by Skene and Rhys, and Zimmer's Nennius Vindicatus (Berlin, 1893).