Brutus of Troy and the Quest for the Ancestry of the British by Anthony Adolph

Author:Anthony Adolph [Adolph, Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-03-11T16:00:00+00:00

The giant Albion was a male manifestation of Albine, the giant anti-heroine of Dez Grantz Geanz and perhaps influenced by a local myth of Hercules slaying a giant called, coincidentally, Alebion, in the south of France, using a shower of rocks, as related by the geographer Pomponius Mela about AD 43. Albion went on to play an important part in British mythology, particularly in the imagination of William Blake. The rest of Annius’s new mythology enjoyed considerable popularity, but only for a limited time. His stories appear interwoven into later editions of Hardyng’s Chronicle and the popular chronicle of Raphael Holinshed (1577/86). The antiquarian Richard White of Basingstoke (1539–1611) even insisted that Annius’s ‘Hercules Libyus’, son of Osiris, had visited Britain.

The result of all this was a grand summary of almost over a millennia and a half of British myth-making, penned by the anonymous author of Eulogium Historiarum, which described visits to Britain by Hercules, Odysseus, and of course Brutus:

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