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019 - Book X Part 1 Arthur marches on Rome · History of the Kings of Britain

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Speaker 1: Book ten, Part one of History of the Kings of
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Speaker 1: Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth, translated by Aaron Thompson and J. A. Giles.
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Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapter one,
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Speaker 1: Lucius Tiberius calls together the Eastern kings against the Britons.
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Speaker 1: Lucius Tiberius, on receiving this answer, by order of the Senate,
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Speaker 1: published a decree for the Eastern kings to come with
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Speaker 1: their forces and assist in the conquest of Britain, in
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Speaker 1: obedience to which there came in a very short time
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Speaker 1: Epistropheus King of the Grecians, Mustan Czar, King of the Africans,
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Speaker 1: Alephantinum King of Spain, Hertatius, King of the Parthians, Bocchus
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Speaker 1: of the Medes, Sertorius of Libya, Tusa King of Phrygia, Cerces,
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Speaker 1: King of the Arturians, Pandrasis King of Egypt, Michipsa, King
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Speaker 1: of Babylon, Polytetes, Duke of Bythynia, Teusa, Duke of Phrygia,
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Speaker 1: Evander of Syria, Aethion of Biotia, Hippolytus of Crete, with
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Speaker 1: the generals and nobility under them of the Senatorian order.
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Speaker 1: Also came Lucius Catullus, Marius, Lepidus, Caius, Metellus, Cotta, Quintus, Mulvius, Catullus,
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Speaker 1: Quintus Carutius, and as many others as made up the
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Speaker 1: number of forty thousand, one hundred and sixty. Chapter two,
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Speaker 1: Arthur committed to his nephew Mordred the government of Britain
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Speaker 1: his dream at Hamo's Port. After the necessary dispositions were
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Speaker 1: made upon the Callons of August, they began their march
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Speaker 1: towards Britain, which, when Arthur had intelligence of he committed
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Speaker 1: the government of the kingdom to his nephew Mordred and
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Speaker 1: Queen Ganhumara, and marched with his army to Hamo's Port,
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Speaker 1: where the wind stood fair for him. But while he
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Speaker 1: surrounded in all his nearest fleet was sailing joyfully with
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Speaker 1: a brisk gale. It happened that about midnight he fell
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Speaker 1: into a very sound sleep, and in a dream saw
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Speaker 1: a bear flying in the air, at the noise of
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Speaker 1: which all the shores trembled. Also a terrible dragon flying
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Speaker 1: from the west, which enlightened the country with the brightness
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Speaker 1: of its eyes. When these two met. They began a
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Speaker 1: dreadful fight, but the dragon, with its fiery breath, burned
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Speaker 1: the bear, which often assaulted him, and threw him down
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Speaker 1: scorched to the ground. Arthur, upon this awaking, related his
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Speaker 1: dream to those that attended about him, who took it
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Speaker 1: upon them to interpret it, and told him that the
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Speaker 1: dragon signified himself, but the bear some giant that should
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Speaker 1: encounter with him, and that the fight portended the deal
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Speaker 1: that would be between them, and the dragon's victory the
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Speaker 1: same that would happen to himself. But Arthur conjectured it
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Speaker 1: port ended something else, and that the vision was applicable
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Speaker 1: to himself, the Emperor. As soon as the morning after
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Speaker 1: this night sail appeared, they found themselves arrived at the
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Speaker 1: mouth of the river Barber, and there they pitched their
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Speaker 1: tents to wait the arrival of the kings of the
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Speaker 1: islands and the generals of the other provinces. Chapter three,
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Speaker 1: Arthur kills a Spanish giant who had stolen away Helena,
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Speaker 1: the niece of hurl. In the meantime, Arthur had news
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Speaker 1: brought him that a giant of monstrous size was come
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Speaker 1: from the shores of Spain and had forcibly taken away Helena,
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Speaker 1: the niece of Duke Earl, from her guard, and fled
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Speaker 1: with her to the top of that which is now
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Speaker 1: called Michael's Mount, And that the soldiers of the country
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Speaker 1: who pursued him were able to do nothing against him,
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Speaker 1: for whether they attacked him by sea or land, he
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Speaker 1: either overturned their ships with vast rocks or killed them
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Speaker 1: with several sorts of darts, besides many of them that
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Speaker 1: he took and devoured half alive. The next night. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: at the second hour, Arthur, taking along with him Caius
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Speaker 1: the sewer, hadn't bed, for the butler, went out privately
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Speaker 1: from the camp and hastened towards the mountain. For being
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Speaker 1: a man of undaunted courage, he did not care to
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Speaker 1: lead his army against such monsters, both because he could,
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Speaker 1: in this manner animate his men by his own example,
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Speaker 1: and also because he was alone sufficient to deal with them.
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Speaker 1: As soon as they came near the mountain, they saw
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Speaker 1: a fire burning upon the top of it, and another
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Speaker 1: on a lesser mountain that was not far from it,
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Speaker 1: And being in doubt upon which of them the giant dwelt,
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Speaker 1: they sent away Bedford to know the certainty of the matter,
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Speaker 1: so he, finding a boat, sailed over in it first
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Speaker 1: to the lesser mountain, to which he could in no
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Speaker 1: other way have access because it was situated in the sea.
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Speaker 1: When he had begun to climb up to the top
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Speaker 1: of it, he was at first frightened with a dismal
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Speaker 1: howling cry of a woman from above, and imagined the
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Speaker 1: monster to be there. But quickly rousing up his courage,
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Speaker 1: he drew his sword, and, having reached the top, found
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Speaker 1: nothing but the fire, which he had before seen at
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Speaker 1: a distance. He discovered also a grave newly made, and
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Speaker 1: an old woman weeping and howling by it, who, at
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Speaker 1: the sight of him, instantly cried out in words, interrupted
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Speaker 1: with sighs. Oh, unhappy man, what misfortune brings you to
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Speaker 1: this place? Oh, the inexpressible torture of death that you
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Speaker 1: must suffer. I pity you. I pity you because the
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Speaker 1: detestable monster will this night destroy the flower of your youth.
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Speaker 1: But that most wicked and odious giant who brought the
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Speaker 1: Duke's niece, whom I have just now buried here and
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Speaker 1: me her nurse along with her, into this mountain, will
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Speaker 1: come and immediately murder you. In a most cruel manner, Oh,
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Speaker 1: deplorable fate, this most illustrious princess, sinking under the fear
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Speaker 1: her tender heart conceived while the foul monster would have
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Speaker 1: embraced her fainted away had expired, and when he could
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Speaker 1: not say she ate his brutish lust upon her, her,
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Speaker 1: who was the very sole joy and happiness of my life.
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Speaker 1: Being enraged at the disappointment of his bestial desire, he
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Speaker 1: forcibly committed a rape upon me, who let God and
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Speaker 1: my old age witness abhort his embraces. Fly, dear sir, fly,
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Speaker 1: for fear he may come as he usually does, to
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Speaker 1: lie with me, and finding you here most barbarously, butcher
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Speaker 1: you pedver moved at what she said, as much as
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Speaker 1: it is possible for human nature to be endeavored with
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Speaker 1: kind words to assuage her grief and to comfort her
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Speaker 1: with the promise of speedy help, and then returned back
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Speaker 1: to Arthur and gave him an account of what he
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Speaker 1: had met with. Arthur very much lamented the damsel's sad fate,
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Speaker 1: and ordered his companions to leave him to deal with
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Speaker 1: him alone unless there was an absolute necessity, and then
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Speaker 1: they were to come in boldly to his assistance. From
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Speaker 1: hence they went directly to the next mountain, leaving their
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Speaker 1: horses with their armor bearers, and ascended to the top,
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Speaker 1: Arthur leading the way. The deformed savage was then by
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Speaker 1: the fire, with his face besmeared with the clotted blood
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Speaker 1: of swine, part of which he had already devoured, and
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Speaker 1: was roasting the remainder upon spits by the fire. But
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Speaker 1: at the sight of them, whose appearance was a surprise
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Speaker 1: to him, he hastened to his club, which two strong
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Speaker 1: men could hardly lift from the ground. Upon this, the
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Speaker 1: king drew his sword, and, guarding himself with his shield,
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Speaker 1: ran with all his speed to prevent his getting it.
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Speaker 1: But the other, who was not ignorant of his design,
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Speaker 1: had by this time, snatched it up and gave the
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Speaker 1: king such a terrible blow upon his shield that he
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Speaker 1: made the shaw's ring with the noise and perfectly stunned
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Speaker 1: the king's ears with it. Arthur fired with rage at this,
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Speaker 1: lifted up his sword and gave him a wound in
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Speaker 1: the forehead, which was not indeed mortal, but yet such
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Speaker 1: as made the blood gush out over his face and eyes,
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Speaker 1: and so blinded him. For he had partly warded off
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Speaker 1: the stroke from his forehead with his glove and prevented
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Speaker 1: it being fatal. However, his loss of sight by reason
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Speaker 1: of the blood flowing over his eyes made him exert
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Speaker 1: himself with an ever greater fury, And like an enraged
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Speaker 1: boar against a hunting spear, so did he rush in
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Speaker 1: against Arthur's sword, and, grasping him about the waist, forced
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Speaker 1: him down upon his knees. But Arthur, nothing daunted, slipped
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Speaker 1: out of his hands, and so bestirred himself with his
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Speaker 1: sword that he gave the giant no respite till he
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Speaker 1: had struck it up to the very back through his skull.
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Speaker 1: At this the hideous monster raised a dreadful roar, and
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Speaker 1: like an oak torn up from the roots by the winds,
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Speaker 1: so did he make the ground resound with his fall. Arthur,
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Speaker 1: bursting out into a fit of laughter at the sight,
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Speaker 1: commanded Bedverd to cut off his head and give it
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Speaker 1: to one of the armor bearers, who was to carry
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Speaker 1: it to the camp and there expose it to public view.
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Speaker 1: But with orders for the spectators of this combat to
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Speaker 1: keep silence. He told them he had found none of
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Speaker 1: so great strength, since he had killed the giant Rithko,
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Speaker 1: who had challenged him to fight upon the mountain Arabius.
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Speaker 1: This giant had made himself furs from the beards of
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Speaker 1: kings he had killed, and had sent word to Arthur
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Speaker 1: carefully to flee off his beard and send it to him,
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Speaker 1: And then, out of respect to his pre eminence over
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Speaker 1: other kings, his beard should have the honor of the
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Speaker 1: principal place. But if he refused to do it, he
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Speaker 1: challenged him to a duel, with this offer that the
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Speaker 1: conqueror should have the firs and also the beard of
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Speaker 1: the vanquished, for a trophy of his victory in this conflicts.
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Speaker 1: Therefore Arthur proved victorious and took the beard and spoils
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Speaker 1: of the giant, and, as he said before, had met
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Speaker 1: with none that could be compared to him for strength
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Speaker 1: till his last engagement. After this victory, they returned at
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Speaker 1: the second watch of the night to the camp with
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Speaker 1: the head, to see which there was a great concourse
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Speaker 1: of people, all extolling this wonderful exploit of Arthur, by
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Speaker 1: which he had freed the country from a most destructive
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Speaker 1: and voracious monster. But herl in great grief for the
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Speaker 1: loss of his niece commanded a mausoleum to be built
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Speaker 1: over her body in the mountain where she was buried, which,
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Speaker 1: taking the damsel's name, is called Helene's Tomb to this day.
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Speaker 1: Chapter four, Arthur's ambassadors to Lucius Tiberius delivered Petreus Cotta,
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Speaker 1: whom they took prisoner, to Arthur. As soon as all
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Speaker 1: the forces were arrived, which Arthur expected, he marched from
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Speaker 1: thence to Augusta Dunam, where he supposed the general was.
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Speaker 1: But when he came to the river Alba, he had
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Speaker 1: intelligence brought him of his having encamped not far off,
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Speaker 1: and that he was come with so vast an army
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Speaker 1: that he would not be able to withstand it. However,
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Speaker 1: this did not deter him from pursuing his enterprise, but
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Speaker 1: he pitched his camp upon the bank of the river
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Speaker 1: to facilitate the bringing up of his forces and to
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Speaker 1: secure his retreat if there should be occasion, and sent Boso,
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Speaker 1: the consul of Oxford, and Guerrinus Carnateensis, with his nephew Wolgan,
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Speaker 1: to Lucius Tiberius, requiring him either to retire from the
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Speaker 1: coasts of Gaul or come the next day that they
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Speaker 1: might try their right to that country with their swords.
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Speaker 1: The retinue of young courtiers that attended Walgan, highly rejoicing
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Speaker 1: at this opportunity, were urgent with him to find some
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Speaker 1: occasion for a quarrel in the commander's camp, that so
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Speaker 1: they might engage the Romans. Accordingly, they went to Lucius
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Speaker 1: and commanded him to retire out of Gaul or hazard
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Speaker 1: a battle the next day. But while he was answering
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Speaker 1: them that he was not come to retire, but to
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Speaker 1: govern the country, there was present Caius Contillianus, his nephew,
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Speaker 1: who said that the Britons were better at boasting and
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Speaker 1: threatening than they were at fighting. Wolgan immediately took fire
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Speaker 1: at this and ran upon him with his drawn sword,
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Speaker 1: wherewith he cut off his head, and then retreated speedily
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Speaker 1: with his companions to their horses. The Romans, both horse
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Speaker 1: and foot, pursued to revenge the loss of their countrymen
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Speaker 1: upon the ambassadors, who fled with great precipitation, but were
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Speaker 1: in his carnateensis. Just as one of them was come
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Speaker 1: up to him, rallied on a sudden and with his lance,
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Speaker 1: struck at once through his armor and the very middle
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Speaker 1: of his body. And laid him prostrate on the ground.
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Speaker 1: The sight of this noble exploit raised the emulation of
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Speaker 1: Boso of Oxford, who, wheeling about with his horse, struck
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Speaker 1: his lance into the throat of the first man he
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Speaker 1: met with, and dismounted him, mortally wounded. In the meantime,
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Speaker 1: Marcellus Mutius, with great eagerness to revent Quintillian's death, was
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Speaker 1: just upon the back of Wolgan, and laid hold of him,
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Speaker 1: which the other quickly obliged him to quit by cleaving
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Speaker 1: both his helmet and head to the breast with his sword.
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Speaker 1: He also bade him, when he arrived at the Infernal Regions,
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Speaker 1: tell the man he had killed in the camp that
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Speaker 1: in this manner the Britons showed their boasting and threatening. Then,
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Speaker 1: having reassembled his men, he encouraged them to dispatch everyone
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Speaker 1: his pursuer in the same manner as he had done,
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Speaker 1: which accordingly they did not fail to accomplish. Notwithstanding, the
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Speaker 1: Romans continued their pursuit with lances and swords, wherewith they
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Speaker 1: annoyed the others, though without slaughter or taking any prisoners.
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Speaker 1: But as they came near a certain wood, a party
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Speaker 1: of six thousand Britons, who, seeing the flight of the consuls,
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Speaker 1: had hid themselves to be in readiness for their assistance,
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Speaker 1: sallied forth, and, putting spurs to their horses, rent the
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Speaker 1: air with their life shouts, and being well fenced with
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Speaker 1: their shields, assaulted their owns suddenly and forced them to fly.
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Speaker 1: And now as the Britons turned to pursue, which they
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Speaker 1: did with better success, for they dismounted, killed or took
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Speaker 1: several of the enemy. Petraeus the Senator, upon this news,
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Speaker 1: hastened to the assistance of his countrymen with ten thousand men,
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Speaker 1: and compelled the Britons to retreat to the wood from
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Speaker 1: whence they had sallied forth, though not without loss of
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Speaker 1: his own men, for the Britons, being well acquainted with
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Speaker 1: the ground, in their flight, killed a great number of
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Speaker 1: their pursuers. The Britons, thus giving ground hider with another
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Speaker 1: reinforcement of five thousand men, advanced with speed to sustain them,
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Speaker 1: so that again they faced those upon whom they had
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Speaker 1: turned their backs, and renew ued the assault with great vigor.
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Speaker 1: The Romans also stood their ground and continued the fight
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Speaker 1: with various success. The great fault of the Britons was
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Speaker 1: that though they had been very eager to begin the fight,
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Speaker 1: yet when begun they were less careful of the hazard
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Speaker 1: they ran, whereas the Romans were under better discipline and
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Speaker 1: had the advantage of a prudent commander, Portrayus Cotta to
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Speaker 1: tell them where to advance and where to give ground,
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Speaker 1: and by these means did great injury to the enemy.
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Speaker 1: When Bozo observed this, he drew off from the rest
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Speaker 1: a large party of those whom he knew to be
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Speaker 1: the stoutest men, and spoke to them after this manner,
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Speaker 1: Since we have begun this fight without Arthur's knowledge, we
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Speaker 1: must take care that we be not defeated in the enterprise,
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Speaker 1: for if we should, we shall both very much endanger
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Speaker 1: our men and incur the King's high displeasure. Rouse up
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Speaker 1: your courage and follow me through the Roman squadrons, that,
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Speaker 1: with the favor of good fortune, we may either kill
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Speaker 1: or take Betraye's prisoner. With this, they put spurs to
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Speaker 1: their horses, and, piercing through the enemy's thickest ranks, reached
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Speaker 1: the place where Petraeus was giving his commands. Bozo hastily
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Speaker 1: ran in upon him, and grasping him about the neck,
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Speaker 1: fell with him to the ground, as he had intended.
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Speaker 1: The Romans hereupon ran to his delivery, as did the Britons,
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Speaker 1: to Bozo's assistance, which occasioned on both sides great slaughter, noise,
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Speaker 1: and confusion, while one party strove to rescue their leader
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Speaker 1: and the other to keep him prisoner, so that this
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Speaker 1: proved the sharpest part of the whole fight, and wherein
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Speaker 1: their spears, swords and arrows had the fullest employment. At length,
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Speaker 1: the Britons, joining in a close body and sustaining patiently
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Speaker 1: the assaults of the Romans, retired to the main body
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Speaker 1: of their army with Betraeus, which they had no sooner
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Speaker 1: done than they again attacked them. Being now deprived of
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Speaker 1: their leader, very much weakened, dispirited, and just beginning to flee,
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Speaker 1: they therefore eagerly pursued, beat down and killed several of them,
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Speaker 1: and as soon as they had plundered them, pursued the rest.
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Speaker 1: But they took the greatest number of them prisoners, being
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Speaker 1: desirous to present them to the king. When they had
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Speaker 1: at last sufficiently harassed them, they returned with their plunder
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Speaker 1: and prisoners to the camp, where they gave an account
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Speaker 1: of what had happened, and presented Portrae's cotta with the
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Speaker 1: other prisoners before Arthur with great joy for the victory.
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Speaker 1: Arthur congratulated them upon it and promised them advancement to
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Speaker 1: greater honors for behaving themselves so gallantly. When he was
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Speaker 1: absent from them, then he gave his command to some
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Speaker 1: of the men to conduct the prisoners the next day
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Speaker 1: to Paris and deliver them to be kept in custody
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Speaker 1: there till further orders. The party that were to undertake
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Speaker 1: this charge he ordered to be conducted by Cador Bedver
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Speaker 1: and the two councils Brellus and Racheeris, with their servants,
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Speaker 1: till they should be out of all fear of disturbance
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Speaker 1: from the Romans. Chapter five. The Romans attacked the Britons
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Speaker 1: with a very great force, but are put to flight
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Speaker 1: by them. But the Romans, happening to get intelligence of
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Speaker 1: their design, at the command of their general, chose out
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Speaker 1: fifteen thousand men, who that night were to get before
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Speaker 1: the others of their march and rescue their fellow soldiers
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Speaker 1: out of their hands. They were to be commanded by
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Speaker 1: Voltai as Cathellus and Quintus Carutius Senatus, as also Evander
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Speaker 1: King of Syria, and Storius, King of Libya. Accordingly, they
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Speaker 1: began their march that very night and possessed themselves of
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Speaker 1: a place convenient for lygon ambuscade, through which they supposed
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Speaker 1: the others would pass. In the morning, the Britons set
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Speaker 1: forward along the same road with their prisoners, and were
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Speaker 1: now approaching the place in perfect ignorance of the cunning
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Speaker 1: stratagem of the enemy. No sooner had they entered it
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Speaker 1: than the Romans, to their great surprise, sprang forth and
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Speaker 1: fell furiously upon them. Notwithstanding, the Britons, at length, recovering
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Speaker 1: from their consternation, assembled together and prepared for a bold
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Speaker 1: opposition by appointing a party to guard the prisoners and
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Speaker 1: drawing out the rest in order of battle against the enemy.
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Speaker 1: Richurius and Bedford had the command of the party that
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Speaker 1: were set over the prisoners, but Cador, Duke of Cornwall,
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Speaker 1: and Burrellus headed the others. But all the Romans had
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Speaker 1: made their sally without being placed in any order, and
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Speaker 1: cared not to form themselves, that they might lose no
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Speaker 1: time in the slaughter of the Britons, whom they saw
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Speaker 1: busied in marshaling their troops and preparing only for their defair.
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Speaker 1: By this conduct, the Britons were extremely weakened and would
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Speaker 1: have shamefully lost their prisoners had not good fortune rendered
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Speaker 1: them assistance. For Guethard, commander of the Pictavians, happened to
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Speaker 1: get information of the designed stratagem, and was come up
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Speaker 1: with three thousand men, by the help of which they
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Speaker 1: at last got the advantage and paid back the slaughter
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Speaker 1: upon their insolent assailants. Nevertheless, the loss which they sustained
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Speaker 1: at the beginning of this action was very considerable, for
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Speaker 1: they lost Burrellus, the famous consul of the Kennemani, in
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Speaker 1: an encounter with Evander, king of Syria, who struck his
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Speaker 1: lands into his throat. Besides four noble men viz. Herald Gastspirirs,
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Speaker 1: Mauritius Cado Canensis, Aliduk of Tintagel, and Hyder, his son
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Speaker 1: than whom braver men were hardly to be found. But
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Speaker 1: yet neither did this loss dispirit the Britons, but rather
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Speaker 1: made them more resolute to keep the prisoners and to
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Speaker 1: kill the enemy. The Romans, now finding themselves unable to
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Speaker 1: maintain the fight any longer suddenly quitted the field and
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Speaker 1: made towards their camp, but were pursued with slaughter by
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Speaker 1: the Britons, who also took many of them. Had allowed
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Speaker 1: them no respite till they had killed Voltaeus Catellus, and Evander,
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Speaker 1: King of Syria, had wholly dispersed the rest, after which
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Speaker 1: they sent away their former prisoners to Paris, whether they
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Speaker 1: were to conduct them, had returned back with those newly
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Speaker 1: taken to the king, to whom they gave great hopes
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Speaker 1: of a complete conquest of their enemies, since very few
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Speaker 1: of the great number that came against them had met
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Speaker 1: with any success. End of Book ten, Part one