Hi Pete,

points well made and taken. As I wrote: I was not familiar with Gildas until now and it's always useful to get another point of view. Any chronicles from that period are useful because so little exists, but I feel the reliability of such sources should always be questioned and the clear bias of Gildas when writing about his own time should be taken into account. Alterno-historians are wont to take such sources entirely literally, so long as they fit their own agenda or pet-theories, so I feel it's wise to be on guard when someone uses such a source to back up their argument.