![]() ![]() Bede relates the defeat of the Picts, though without replicating Gildas’ belief that it was obtained though trust in God.īeden's Independent Tradition about the Saxons ![]() In chapter 13–14 Bede continues to follow Gildas, though he uses the more correct spelling Aëtius for the Roman general to whom the Britons sent for aid according to Gildas. Hadrian’s Wall is normally attributed to Severus in medieval texts. Bede, in attempting to fit in the stone wall which Gildas says was built at this point, claims that it was built where Severus had earlier built his earthwork. Then follows Gildas’s second Pictish invasion and the coming of the last Roman legion to aid the Britons. Bede explains Gildas’s incorrect belief that only at that point in time did the Picts settle in Britain by weakly explaining that the earlier Pictish territory in Britain was sundered from the rest of Britain by two sea estuaries.īede follows Gildas in describing how the Britons sought Roman aid and how a legion was sent to them and built a turf wall across the island. ![]() ![]()
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