The earliest literary references to Arthur come from Welsh and Breton sources.

The later manuscripts of the Triads are partly derivative from Geoffrey of Monmouth and later continental traditions, but the earliest ones show no such influence and are usually agreed to refer to pre-existing Welsh traditions.

Thus, for example, around 60 manuscripts are extant containing Welsh-language versions of the Historia, the earliest of which were created in the 13th century ; the old notion that some of these Welsh versions actually underlie Geoffrey's Historia, advanced by antiquarians such as the 18th-century Lewis Morris, has long since been discounted in academic circles.

The earliest conclusion was made by John Bale, a 16th century antiquarian, who declared that Malory was Welsh, hailing from Maloria on the River Dee.

Following Henry VIII's break with Rome and the Pope, Wales for the most part followed England in accepting Anglicanism, although a number of Catholics were active in attempting to counteract this and produced some of the earliest books printed in Welsh.

This is the earliest surviving written agreement between an English king and a Welsh ruler, and under its terms Llywelyn was to swear fealty and do homage to the king.

The earliest Welsh genealogies give Maximus ( referred to as Macsen / Maxen Wledig, or Emperor Maximus ) the role of founding father of the dynasties of several medieval Welsh kingdoms, including those of Powys and Gwent.

He is certainly given a prominent place in the earliest version of the Welsh Triads which are believed to date from c. 1100 and which reflect far older traditions.

Culhwch (, with the final consonant of Scottish " loch "), in Welsh mythology, is the son of Cilydd son of Celyddon and Goleuddydd, a cousin of Arthur and the protagonist of the story Culhwch and Olwen ( the earliest of the medieval Welsh tales usually, but erroneously, referred to collectively as the Mabinogion ).

The earliest mention of Guinevere is in the Welsh tale Culhwch ac Olwen, where she appears as Arthur's queen, but little more is said about her.

As Gerald says, Glastonbury's earliest name in Welsh was Ineswitrin ( or Ynys Witrin ), the Isle of glass, a name noted by earlier historians which shows that the location was at one point seen as an island.

While the originators of the Welsh Tract were Quakers, the earliest settlers in the portion that became Easttown Township were mostly Anglicans.

Although the earliest recorded evidence comes from a Welsh poem written by Gryffydd ap Adda ap Dafydd in the mid-14th century, in which he described how people used a tall birch pole at Llanidloes, central Wales.

Nennius praises him amongst the earliest Welsh poets or Cynfeirdd, a contemporary of Talhaearn, Taliesin, Bluchbardd and Cian.

One of the earliest references to tourism is in the LNWR Tourist Guide for 1876, which waxed lyrical about the Ffestiniog Railway, which it illustrated with a drawing of a lady in Welsh national dress ( then still in regular local use ) travelling on an FR up train ( since many empty slate wagons – with two standing brakesmen – were attached at the rear ) with the caption " On the Ffestiniog Railway ".

The earliest extant literature written in what is now Scotland, was composed in Brythonic speech in the 6th century and has survived as part of Welsh literature.

Much of the earliest Welsh literature was actually composed in or near the country we now call Scotland, in the Brythonic speech, from which Welsh would be derived, which was not then confined to Wales and Cornwall, although it was only written down in Wales much later.

The Historia Britonum, the earliest known source of the story of Brutus of Britain, may have been devised to create a distinguished genealogy for a number of Welsh princes in the 9th century.

In Medieval Welsh literature the period before 1100 is known as the period of Y Cynfeirdd (" The earliest poets ") or Yr Hengerdd (" The old poetry ").

The town's name is recorded in its earliest form as Mailros, ' the bare peninsula ' ( Old Welsh or Brythonic ), referring to the original site of the monastery, recorded by the Venerable Bede, in a bend of the river Tweed.

The manuscript is also important because it includes, as marginalia, some of the earliest known examples of written Welsh.

Ultimately the Dál Riata, according to the earliest genealogies, are descendants of Deda mac Sin, a prehistoric king or deity of the Érainn.

They founded a large library that included national records from the earliest periods, works of the bards, and genealogies of the Princes and great families in Wales.

She is also proposed by old romantical-looking genealogies as mother of a Duke's daughter Cecilia Knutsdotter ( by necessity born near 1208 at earliest ), whose parentage however is fully shrouded in mists of history.

In the earliest genealogies, mostly found in Rawlinson B 502, they are in some way kin to the Eóganachta, even if only through marriage at first as suggested by some later interpreters.

He used to say that the earliest gospels were those containing the genealogies Luke, while Mark's originated as follows: When, at Rome, Peter had openly preached the word and by the Spirit had proclaimed the gospel, the large audience urged Mark, who had followed him for a long time and remembered what had been said, to write it all down.

Jordanes ' Getica ( c. 560 ), purporting to give the earliest history of the Goths, relates that the Goths ' ancestors, descendants of Magog, originally dwelt within Scythia, on the Sea of Azov between the Dnieper and Don Rivers.

Bede, the earliest source to give dates, is thought to have drawn his information from correspondence with Albinus.

Some would give Timaeus an extra 5 years, bringing the voyage down to 325 BC at earliest.

" The earliest record of doubts concerning the authorship of the letter were recorded by Origen ( c. 185 – 254 ), though Origen mentioned no explanation for the doubts, nor did he give any indication concerning the extent or location.

The short document known as the Teaching of the Apostles or Didache, which may be the earliest Christian document outside of the New Testament to speak of the Eucharist, says, " Let no one eat or drink of the Eucharist with you except those who have been baptized in the Name of the Lord ," for it was in reference to this that the Lord said, " Do not give that which is holy to dogs.

Though the earliest chapters give the standard motives of blood sustenance for Varney's actions toward the family, later ones suggest that Varney is motivated by monetary interests.

It has often been supposed that all the earliest Popes suffered martyrdom ; but the Roman Martyrology does not give Pope Soter the title of Martyr.

In the earliest account of this episode, in a fragmentary Middle Kingdom papyrus, the sexual encounter begins when Set asks to have sex with Horus, who agrees on the condition that Set will give Horus some of his strength.

Bizet's earliest compositions, chiefly songs and keyboard pieces written as exercises, give early indications of his emergent power and his gifts as a melodist.

The Satyricon is considered one of the gems of Western literature, and may be the earliest extant work classifiable as a novel, although some would give that honour to Chariton's Callirhoe.

The earliest English account is that of Richard Rowland Verstegan ( 1548 – c. 1636 ), an antiquary and religious controversialist of partly Dutch descent, in his Restitution of Decayed Intelligence ( Antwerp, 1605 ); he does not give his source.

In March 2005, then Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell announced the decision to give Grade II listed building protection to the Red House Cold Store building, on the basis of new historical evidence qualifying the complex as " the earliest existing example of a purpose-built powered cold store ".

His earliest documented acts on behalf of the Ostrogothic ruler were to investigate allegations that the paymaster of Theodoric's Bodyguards had debased the coins of their pay, to produce a water-clock which Theodoric intended to give to king Gundobad of the Burgunds, and to recruit a lyre-player to perform for king Clovis of the Franks.

Acosta was one of the earliest people to give a detailed description of altitude sickness, a variety of which is referred to as Acosta's disease.

Firstly, the newly dated coins in the silver coin hoards give an earliest possible burial date for the coin hoards to 52 / 3-66 CE, based on an interpretation of a countermark.

Though some his earliest biographers, Mattei and Villarosa, give 1748 as the year when Jommelli gave up his employment in Venice, his last compositions for the Incurabili are from 1746.

Hernando de la Parra's archives give some of our earliest available information on Cuban music.

One of her earliest memories was her father reading to her The Song of Hiawatha, at which she burst into sobs upon hearing that the tree had to give its life in order to provide Hiawatha the wood for a canoe.

A pupil of Peacock, Robert Bewick, the son of Thomas Bewick the engraver, left five manuscript notebooks of pipetunes ; these, dated between 1832 and 1843, are from the earliest decades in which keyed chanters were common, and they give a good early picture of the repertoire of a piper at this stage in the modern instrument's development.

These claims are inconsistent with the earliest date usually given for construction of the pub, 1650, and the fact that the pub lies outside the city walls may also give some cause for doubt.

To give one example, would John Parsons have been able to incubate the earliest development of numerical control if he were a worker in a red-tape-laden organization being told from above that the best way to mill a part had already been perfected, and therefore he had no business experimenting with his own preferred methods?

Assyrian records, which in fact provide the earliest evidence for ancient Iranians ( Persian and Median ) presence on the Iranian Plateau, give a good chronology but only an approximate geographical indication of ancient Persians.

Although the idea of cross-connections dates to some of the earliest work on synesthesia ,< ref > Ramachandran was the first to give this idea a specific anatomical explanation.