The Sources of the British Chronicle History in Spensers Faerie Queen
The Sources of the British Chronicle History in Spensers Faerie Queen
Carrie Anna Harper
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"Brutus 2 the eldest Sonne of Ebranke, succeeded in the Kingdome, and for that his father had receiued such a repulse at the hands of Brunchildis, Lord of Henalt, hee in reuenge thereof, inuaded Henalt with a great army in the Fennes and Marshland, at the mouth of the Riuer Scaldis (of old time 68 SPENSER'S BRITISH CHRONICLE HISTORY named Stadus) and encamped himself e upon the river Hania, where betweene Brutus and Brunchildis was foughten a strong battell in that place, which to this day is c...alled Estam-bruges, of the station and campe of Brutus, as Jacobus Lessabeus writeth in his description of Henalt. This Brute, of his lusty courage, was surnamed Greene shield, he raigned 12 yeeres, and was buried at Yorke. " Spenser's account of the victory won by the second Brutus, with its reference to the Scaldis, the Hania, and Esthambruges, may be based chiefly on Stow's chronicle, which it closely resembles, even in the order in which it gives the proper names. Holinshed, however, may have had some influence on Spenser's account of the " green shield " which Brunchildis saw dyed in " dolorous ver- meil, " for Holinshed alone refers to the fact that " Brutus bare alwayes in the field a greene shielde, whereof he toke hys surname.
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