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As we have it, it is centuries late, and it need not concern serious history. Even for the existence of Arthur to which it is the principal witness popular legend is a much better guide. As to the original dates of the various statements in the Historia Brittonum, those dates are guesswork.
At the present time the majority of scholars believe that the Angli had lived from the beginning on the coasts of the Baltic, probably in the southern part of the Jutish peninsula. Bede states that the Angli before they came to Britain dwelt in a land called Angulus, and similar evidence is given by the Historia Brittonum.
The Historia Brittonum, compiled a century or two later, preserves even less memory of things Roman. There is some hint of a vetus traditio seniorum.
There are no other authorities. There is no other evidence save St. Gildas, a contemporary and two hundred years after him, three hundred after the first event Bede. A mass of legend and worse nonsense called the Historia Brittonum exists indeed for those who consult it but it has no relation to historical science nor any claim to rank as evidence.
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