"The History of the Kings of Britain" is a mythical hiistorical account
of British history, written around 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth. It
chronicles the lives of the kings of the Britons in a chronological
narrative spanning a time of two thousand years, beginning with the
Trojans of Homer's Iliad founding the British nation and continuing
until the Anglo-Saxons assumed control of Britain around the 7th
century.
Very intertaining and believed to be the source of at
least two Shakespeare plays, "King Lear" and "Cymbeline." There is also
an account of Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain. And the story of
Merlin and King Arthur.