User:Deacon of Pndapetzim/Lebor Bretnach

The Lebor Bretnach ("British" or "Welsh Book") is a version of the Historia Brittonum written in Middle Irish.

The text of the Lebor Bretnach most closely resembles the so-called "Nennian" recension of the Historia Brittonum (the latter survives in many very distinct versions), the recension responsible for the attribution to Nennius. This version was written in the mid-11th century, and is first attested in Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS. 139. The latter manuscript was at Sawley Abbey, Lancashire by the late 12th century. Derek Baker in 1975 argued that it was probably compiled at Fountains Abbey. M. R. James had argued in 1912 that the manuscript was compiled at Hexham, Northumberland. Theodor Mommsen in 1898, Peter Hunter Blair in 1963 and David Dumville in 1974 (repeated in 1990) argued the compilation took place at Sawley.