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BRUT, BRUTE

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

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