Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thus in effecte haue the Iriſh writers repor|ted of Turgeſius a Norwegian, whether he did reygne before the ſuppoſed tyme of [...], or whether that hee came thyther as Lieue|tenaunt EEBO page image 16 to him, whiche if it ſhoulde bee true, no doubte the ſame Gurmonde was ſome Kyng of the Danes, or Norweygians, and not of the Affricanes, (as ſome of our countreymen name hym.) Which errour is ſoone committed, in takyng one Heatheniſhe nation for an other,Gurmonde. as thoſe haue doone that haue named the Hun|garians (when they inuaded Gallia before they were Chriſtians) Sarazins: And ſo lykewyſe might that authour (who ſo euer he was) whom Geffrey of Monmouth foloweth, fynding Gur|monde written to be a king of the myſcreantes, miſtake the Norwegians for Affricanes, bicauſe both thoſe nations were Infidels: and therefore ſith haply the Affricanes in the dayes when that Author lyued, bare al the brute aboue other Hea|theniſhe nations then, as the Turkes do nowe, he named them Africanes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Howe ſoeuer it was, certayne it is, that the Danes or Norwegians made ſundrie inuaſions into Irelande, and that at ſeuerall tymes. But for Turgeſius, whether hee were an abſolute Kyng, or but a Lieutenant of ſome armye, vn|der ſome other king named Gurmonde, or per|aduenture Gormo, (as ſuche names are ſoone corrupted,) I can not affirme, bycauſe that no certayne tyme is ſette downe in the Chroni|cles, whyche are written of thoſe Nations, whereby they maye bee ſo reconciled together, as ſuffiſeth to warrant any lykely coniecture in this behalfe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But if I ſhoulde ſaye, (with the Readers li|cence) what I thinke, this Gurmonde what ſo e|uer he was, made no ſuche conqueſt of Irelande nor of this our Ile of Britayn (as by ſome wri|ters is ſuppoſed:) but yet myght he peraduenture lande in Wales, and eyther in fauoure of the Saxons, then enimyes to the Britons, or in hatred of the Chriſtian name, perſecute by cruell warres the Brytiſhe nation, and vſe ſuche cru|eltie as the Heatheniſhe nations then were accu|ſtomed to practiſe agaynſt the Chriſtians, in all places where they came, and chaunced to haue the vpper hande. The chiefeſt cauſe that mo|ueth me to doubte therof, is for that I fynd not in any of our approued auncient Engliſhe wri|ters, as Bede, Malmeſburye, Huntingdon, Houeden, or ſuche lyke, anye playne mention made of hym, whereby I may be throughly in|duced to credite that whyche I fynde in Geffrey Monmouth and others, recorded of hym, except his name be miſtaken, and ſo therby ſome errour crept in, which I am not able to reſolue.