The Historia Brittonum was highly influential, becoming a major contributor to the Arthurian legend, in particular for its inclusion of events relevant to debate about the historicity of King Arthur. Nennius was traditionally credited with having written the Historia Brittonum c. Welsh traditions include Nennius with Elbodug and others said to have escaped the massacre of Welsh monks by Ethelfrid in 613, fleeing to the north. Because of the lack of evidence concerning the life of Nennius, he has become the subject of legend himself. Thus, he lived outside the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, isolated by mountains in a rural society. Nennius is believed to have lived in the area made up by Brecknockshire and Radnorshire in present-day Powys, Wales. Nennius was a student of Elvodugus, commonly identified with the bishop Elfodd of Bangor who convinced British ecclesiastics to accept the Continental dating for Easter, and who died in 809 according to the Annales Cambriae. This attribution is widely considered a secondary (10th-century) tradition. He has traditionally been attributed with the authorship of the Historia Brittonum, based on the prologue affixed to that work. Nennius – or Nemnius or Nemnivus – was a Welsh monk of the 9th century. For other uses, see Nennius (disambiguation). This article is about the 9th century Welsh monk.
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