Badon
Proper noun
Meaning
Badon (plural Badons)
A surname.
Anagrams
Examples
Bede, I.xv. he must have considered Badon to have taken place between 493 and 500. Bede then puts off discussion of the battle – "But more of this hereafter" – only to seemingly never return to it.
Bede, I.xx. However, as the victory is described as having been accomplished bloodlessly, it was presumably a different occasion from Badon.
It has been conjectured that, as Saxon war leader, Ælle may have met his death in the disastrous battle of Mount Badon when the Britons halted Saxon expansion Alec Hamilton-Barr.
Korrel (1984), p. 5-30 Both figures have been connected to the Battle of Badon and have been portrayed as its sole hero.
Korrel (1984), p. 5-30 In both cases, the Battle of Badon seems to be the final victory of a long war.
Second Badon The A Text of the Annales Cambriae Harleian MS. 3859.