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Brewer's: Tours
Geoffrey of Monmouth says: “In the party of Brutus was one Turones, his nephew, inferior to none in courage and strength, from whom Tours derived its name, being the place of his sepulture…Brewer's: Well of English Undefiled
So Geoffrey Chaucer is spoken of by Spenser in the Faërie Queene, iv. 2. (1328-1400.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Goemot
or Goëm'agot. The giant who dominated over the western horn of England, slain by Corineus, one of the companions of Brute. (Geoffrey: Chronicles, i. 16.) (See Corineus.) Source:…Greece Department of State Background
U.S. Department of State Background Note Greece Index: People History Government and Political Conditions Economy Foreign Relations U.S.-Greece Relations PEOPLE Greece was inhabited as…Brewer's: Abus
The river Humber. For by the river that whylome was hight The ancien Abus ... [was from] Their chieftain, Humber, named aright. And Drayton, in his Polyolbion, 28, says: For my princely…Brewer's: Guendolêna
daughter of Corineus and wife of Locrin, son of Brute, the legendary king of Britain. She was divorced, and Locrin married Estrildis, by whom he already had a daughter named Sabrina.…Brewer's: Guiderius
The elder son of Cymbeline, a legendary king of Britain during the reign of Augustus Caesar. Both Guiderius and his brother Arviragus were stolen in infancy by Belarius, a banished…Brewer's: Bearded
Bearded Master (Magister barbatus). So Persius styled Socrates, under the notion that the beard is the symbol of wisdom. (B.C.468-399.) Pogonatus (Bearded). Constantine IV., Emperor of…Brewer's: Poetry on the Greek Model
(See Chiabreresco.) Father of English poetry. Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400); so called by Dryden. Spenser calls him “the pure well of English undefiled.” He was not the first English poet…Brewer's: Westmoreland
[Land of the West Moors ]. Geoffrey of Monmouth says (iv. 17) that Mar or Marius, son of Arviragus, one of the descendants of Brutus the Trojan…Trending
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