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BRUTE BRUT

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 695 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRUTE
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BRUT
  , Or BRUTUS THE TROJAN, a legendary
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British character, who, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth and other was the
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eponymous hero of Britain . He was reputed to be grandson of
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Aeneas, and the legend was that he was banished from Italy and made his way to Britain, where he founded New Troy (
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London) . The name is an obvious confusion between Bry t (a Briton) and the classical name Brutus . For the
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romance literature of the subject see WACE ; and BARBOUR .

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