Certeine testimonies concerning K. Arthur and [I- ^-l 

 his conquests of the North regions, taken 

 out of the historic of the Kings of Britaine, 

 written by Galfridus Monumetensis, and newly 

 printed at Heidelberge, Anno 1587. 



Lib. 9. cap. 10. 



Nno Christi, 517. Arthurus, secundo 

 regni sui anno, subjugatis totius Hyber- 

 ni^ partibus, classem suam direxit in 

 Islandiam, eamque debellato populo sub- 

 jugavit. Exin divulgate per caeteras insulas 

 rumore, quod ei nulla Provincia resistere 

 poterat, Doldavius rex Gotlandiae, & Gun- 

 facius rex Orcadum ultro venerunt, promissoque vectigali 

 subjectionem fecerunt. Emensa deinde hyeme, reversus 

 est in Britanniam, statumque regni in firmam pacem 

 renovans, moram duodecim annis ibidem fecit. 



The same in English. 



IN the yere of Christ, 517. king Arthur in the second 

 yeere of his reigne, having subdued all parts of 

 Ireland, sailed with his fleet into Island, and brought it 

 and the people thereof under his subjection. The 

 rumour afterwards being spread thorowout all the other 

 Islands, that no countrey was able to withstand him, 

 Doldavius the king of Gotland, and Gunfacius the king 

 of Orkney, came voluntarily unto him, and yeelded him 

 their obedience, promising to pay him tribute. The 



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