By Edwin Hopper © 2010.
I wanted to collect everything written about Britain and its neighbours before 650 AD, then reassemble it all in date order. It would be an easy to word search reference source for students of early British history. And it would be from original sources, untainted by later writers.
Of course I failed. There are no original sources. Everything has been copied, recopied and glossed over through the ages. So I have made a heap of texts as best I can.
I invite you to make the best of it.
I have provided each section in PDF for the periods I have rather arbitrarily selected, I aim to publish in other formats soon.
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The whole thing as a single PDF document
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Bibliography, and links to other web sites
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The First and Second Ages. Ceasir from the Mediteranean.
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The Third Age
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The Ynglinga Saga
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The Fourth Age and destruction of Dind Rig
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The Fifth Age. Herodutus. Celts invade Italy.
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The Age of Caesar
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Julius Caesar
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Cicero
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55BCE to 40. Rome in Germany. Christianity. .
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Strabo
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41 to 68
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Pliny on Britain
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Pliny on Mining, Metal and Magnets
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Pliny on Pottery, Building and Amber
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Tacitus on Agricola
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Tacitus Description of Britain
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Tacitus Description of Germany
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69 to 111. Claudius, Vespasian, invasion.
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116 to 175. Hadrian, Ptolomy, Lucius.
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176 to 199. Pertinax, Severus.
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200 to 299. Aurelian, Diocletian, St Alban.
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300 to 362. Constantine, Saxons.
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363 to 399. Partition of the Empire. Saxons, Theodosius, Maximus, Pelagius, Germanus.
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400. Notitia Dignitatum, Claudian.
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Saint Declan
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400 to 424.Britain independant. Stilicho, Huns, Goths, Taliesin, Cunedda.
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425 to 429. Vortigern. Hengist, Horsa.
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Lives of Saint Patrick
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430 to 455. Angles, Aetius, Atilla the Hun.
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456 to 476. End of the Roman Empire in The West. Ambrosius, St David, Arthur.
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477 to 499. Sidonius Appolinaris. Cerdic.
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Lives of St Bridget
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500 to 524. Ambrose, Arthur, Longborth, Geraint, Mount Badon, Taliesin Uther.
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525 to 549. Cerdic, Cynric, St David.
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Saint Brendan
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550. Saints, Procopius.
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550 to 574. Wessex.
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575 to 600. St Augustine.
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601 to 603 The Gododin.
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604 to 625. Northumberland, Ethelbert.
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626 to 650. Aiden, Oswald, Edwin.
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