516, Bellum Badonis in quo Arthur portavit Crucem Domini nostri Jesu Christi tribus diebus et tribus noctibus in humeros suos et Britones victores fuerunt.—_An. Cam._ Tradition points to Ossa Cyllellaur, a descendant of Octa, as Arthur’s opponent in this battle. Footnote 170: The author goes no further than this in this work. The question as to the true character of Arthur, and the site of these battles, is discussed in the _Four Ancient Books of Wales_, vol. i. pp. 51-58; and in Mr. Glennie’s _Arthurian Localities_. Neither does he import into this work any matter from the old Welsh poems, which, whether genuine or spurious, afford at all events no proper basis for an historical narrative. Footnote 171: A.D. 537, Gueith Camlann in qua Arthur et Medraut corruere.—_An. Cam._, _Chron. Picts and Scots_, p. 14. Footnote 172: Mr. Nash, in his introduction to ‘Merlin or the Early History of King Arthur’ (_Early English Text Society_, 1865), makes a statement which appears to me well founded: ‘Certain it is,’ he says, ‘that there are two Celtic—we may perhaps say two Cymric—localities, in which the legends of Arthur and Merlin have been deeply implanted, and to this day remain living traditions cherished by the peasantry of these two countries, and that neither of them is Wales or Britain west of the Severn. It is in Brittany and in the old Cumbrian kingdom south of the Firth of Forth that the legends of Arthur and Merlin have taken root and flourished.’ To Cumbria, however, may be added Cornwall, where the Arthurian romance places the scene of many of its adventures; and it is rather remarkable that we should find in the second century a tribe termed Damnonii, possessing Cornwall, and a tribe of the same name occupying the ground which forms the scene of his exploits in the north. Footnote 173: