by Brian Edward Rise
The site of Arthur‘s ninth battle in the Historia Brittonum. Geoffrey of Monmouth‘s “City of the Legions” is meant to be Caerleon in S.E. Wales and here Arthur holds court but fights no battle. However, in the Annales Cambriae Chester is the City of the Legion and likely the place referred to in the battle list.
by Brian Edward Rise
The great grandson of the Trojan Aeneas who, according to a jumbled Welsh legend in the Historia Brittonum.
by Brian Edward Rise
The mountain that was the site, according to the Historia Brittonum, of Arthur’s eleventh victory over the Saxons.
The location has been lost. Geoffrey of Monmouth connects it with the Dolorous Mountain and claims the Castle of Maidens stood upon it. More likely Castle Rock in Edinburgh, there is no reason to suppose this anything but invention on Geoffrey’s part as it is unlikely the Historia author had Edinburgh in mind.
by Brian Edward Rise
A forest named Coit Celidon in early Welsh, purported to be the site of Arthur’s seventh battle in the Historia Brittonum. Caledonia is also an ancient name for Scotland. Roman geographers place the people called the Caledonii north of the Clyde-Forth line. The Welsh, however, applied the name to the forested area closer to the Border. Recently postulated as possibly being within the operating range of Lucius Artorius Castus and his Sarmatian calvary in the late 4th century.
by Brian Edward Rise
Name of an ancient regional division of Wales. A pile of stones in Buelt is mentioned in the “marvels” addendum to the Historia Brittonum. The stone on top of this pile is imprinted with a dog’s paw-print supposedly left by Arthur’s dog, Cabal. The Welsh Culhwch and Olwen tells a tale of the hunting of the boar Trwyth where the dog marks the stone. Arthur then builds a cairn with that stone on top and he names it Carn Cabal. The strange thing about it that makes it a “marvel” is that the printed stone cannot be removed for more than a day. It always reappears on top of the pile.
Witch's Well 