Medieval Myths and Legends
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Brute Legend, the Origin Myth of Britain
The origin myth of britain is well known within university circles. Jeffs was inspired to rediscover the stories after attending a talk bylex bovey, who works on the d of the brute myth. If i had been standing around in 15 hundred, these ere stories that every one would have known about where we came from. These are things that were really only accessible to the wealthy. But what that tells us about how an ordinary person viewed there in history is harder to establish.
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