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Geoffrey refers to himself in his Historia as Galfridus Monemutensis (Geoffrey of Monmouth), which indicates a significant connection to Monmouth, Wales, and may refer to his birthplace. [7] His works attest to some acquaintance with the place-names of the region. [7] Geoffrey was known to his contemporaries as Galfridus Arturus or variants ...
Historia regum Britanniae (The History of the Kings of Britain), originally called De gestis Britonum (On the Deeds of the Britons), is a fictitious historical account of British history, written around 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth.
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Vita Merlini, or The Life of Merlin, is a Latin poem in 1,529 hexameter lines [1] written around the year 1150. Though doubts have in the past been raised about its authorship it is now widely believed to be by Geoffrey of Monmouth.
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Geoffrey of Monmouth describes it as a megalithic stone circle, whose stones were used to build the neolithic Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. According to Geoffrey, the wizard Merlin disassembled a circle at Mount Killaraus in Ireland and had men drag the stones to Wiltshire, and had giants assemble Stonehenge.