Brutus IV - The Founder of London

Edmund Spenser wrote about Brutus founding the city that became London in The Faerie Queen, which was based upon earlier legends.

We also have the records of Nennius, Gildas and even Edward the Confessor, who wrote of London being built after the likeness of Troy.

Tours is linked to the Brutus story too, supposedly being named after the death of his son Tyrrhi there and the city being built around his tumuli.

Other links with Troy are the troytown mazes, labyrinths cut into the turf all over the country and similar in shape to the ones found at Crete. 



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