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9th-century and Irish

His name is an Irish version of Latin Miles Hispaniae, meaning " Soldier of Hispania ", which is attested in a passage (§ 13 ) in the 9th-century pseudo-history Historia Brittonum (" The History of the Britons ").

The Book of Armagh or Codex Ardmachanus ( ar or 61 ), also known as the Canon of Patrick and the Liber Ar ( d ) machanus, is a 9th-century Irish manuscript written mainly in Latin.

Woolf has suggested that the name Airer Goídel replaced the name Dál Riata when the 9th-century Norse conquest split Irish Dál Riata and the islands of Alban Dál Riata off from mainland Alban Dál Riata ; the mainland area, renamed Airer Goídel, would have contrasted with the offshore islands of Innse Gall, literally " islands of the foreigners ", so-called because during the 9th to 12th centuries they were ruled by Norse-speaking Gall-Gaels.

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The 9th-century Irish dictionary Sanas Cormaic (" Cormac's glossary ") describes Iarnnbélrae as a recently extinct language which was " dense and difficult ", and records two words which derived from it: ond

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9th-century and tale

The 9th-century Historia Brittonum also refers to this tale, with the boar there named Troy ( n ) t. Finally, Arthur is mentioned numerous times in the Welsh Triads, a collection of short summaries of Welsh tradition and legend which are classified into groups of three linked characters or episodes in order to assist recall.

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Modern interpretations view the concept of bretwaldaship as complex and an important indicator of how a 9th-century chronicler interpreted history and attempted to insert the increasingly more powerful Saxon kings into that history.

9th-century and king

The 9th-century " Historia Brittonum " sees in Lucius a translation of the Celtic name Llever Maur ( Great Light ), says that the envoys of Lucius were Fagan and Wervan, and tells us that with this king all the other island kings ( reguli Britanniæ ) were baptized ( Hist.

In a homily preached at Chur and preserved in an 8th-or 9th-century manuscript, St. Timothy is represented as an apostle of Gaul, whence he came to Britain and baptized there a king named Lucius, who became a missionary, went to Gaul, and finally settled at Chur, where he preached the gospel with great success.

According to a legend recorded by Snorri Sturluson, in the Heimskringla, the late 9th-century Värmlandish chieftain Áki invited both the Norwegian king Harald Fairhair and the Swedish king Eric Eymundsson, but had the Norwegian king stay in the newly constructed and sumptuous one, because he was the youngest one of the kings and the one who had the greatest prospects.

Though he was never canonised, a cult emerged around the late earl in the 1390s, associating him with the 9th-century martyr king St Edmund.

Cœnred is not known to have married or had children, although later chronicles describe him as an ancestor of Wigstan, a 9th-century Mercian king.

Hvitserk ( Whiteshirt ) was one of the legendary sons of the 9th-century Norse king Ragnar Lodbrok and his wife Kraka, attested to by the Ragnarssona þáttr.

Later, 9th-century legends attributed to Erwig the poisoning of the king, who was made a penitent by his supporters while Erwig's supporters raised him to the throne.

9th-century and Christian