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Brennus and Belinus
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Brennus and Belinus
According to legend, these two brothers were the legendary founders of Bristol and their statues can be found at St John's Gate off Nelson Street.
One story claims they fought in the Trojan war (it doesn't say on which side) after which they followed the Phoenician trade routes to Cornwall. They then fought each other over who should be king of Britain and Brennus ended up building Bristol.
Evidence for this is supposed to be that the Romans called Bristol Caer Bren, or the city of Brennus. The statues, anachronistically, wear crucifixes.
Bristol had little recorded history before the Saxons arrived in the 8th Century and killed the British kings of Gloucester, Cirencestor and Bath at a battle believed to have been at Dyrham
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