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Williams, Hugh, Gildae De excidio Britanniae / Gildas: The ruin of Britain, London: The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1899.

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Gildae De excidio Britanniae / Gildas: The ruin of Britain
Place
London
Publisher
The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion
Year
1899
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“De excidio Britanniae”
Text based on Mommsen's text, with English translation.
1–252
[App. A] “Extracts from letters (and probably short sermons) of Gildas”
Based on Wasserschleben, Die irische Kanonensammlung (2nd ed., 1885).
255–271
[App. B] “The penitential of Gildas: De poenitentia”
272–288
[App. C] “Gildae lorica: The lorica of Gildas”
289–313
“Vita I: Vita Gildae, written by a monk of the monastery of Ruys in Brittany” link
317–389
“Vita II: Vita Gildae, written by Caradoc of Llancarvan”
390–413
Note on a third vita
Manuscripts: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 5318 
413
“Reference to Gildas in ancient writers”
415–420
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Dennis Groenewegen
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