The White Goddess
“The principal tribesmen were the Atrebates who came from Artois, their settlements being identified by their bead-rimmed bowls. They had their capital at Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester) in North Hampshire, and their area of conquest extended from Western Surrey to the Vale of Trowbridge in Wiltshire, including Salisbury Plain.
* If the story of Câd Goddeu concerns the capture of the national necropolis on Salisbury Plain from its former holders, this is most likely to have happened during eithe...r the first or the second Belgic invasion. Neither the coming of the round-barrow men, nor the Goidelic seizure of South-Eastern Britain, nor the Claudian conquest, which was the last before the coming of the Saxons, corresponds with the story. But according to Geoffrey of Monmouth’s mediaeval History of the Britons two brothers named Belinus and Brennius fought for the mastery of Britain in the fourth century BC; Brennius was beaten and forced north of the Humber. Brennius and Belinus are generally acknowledged to be the gods Bran and Beli; and Beli in the Welsh Triads is described as the father of Arianrhod (‘Silver Wheel’), the sister of Gwydion and Amathaon.MoreLess
* If the story of Câd Goddeu concerns the capture of the national necropolis on Salisbury Plain from its former holders, this is most likely to have happened during eithe...r the first or the second Belgic invasion. Neither the coming of the round-barrow men, nor the Goidelic seizure of South-Eastern Britain, nor the Claudian conquest, which was the last before the coming of the Saxons, corresponds with the story. But according to Geoffrey of Monmouth’s mediaeval History of the Britons two brothers named Belinus and Brennius fought for the mastery of Britain in the fourth century BC; Brennius was beaten and forced north of the Humber. Brennius and Belinus are generally acknowledged to be the gods Bran and Beli; and Beli in the Welsh Triads is described as the father of Arianrhod (‘Silver Wheel’), the sister of Gwydion and Amathaon.MoreLess
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