Layamon or Laghamon (UK: /ˈlaɪ.əmən, -mɒn/, US: /ˈleɪ.əmən, ˈlaɪ-/; Middle English: [ˈlaɣamon]) – spelled Laȝamon or Laȝamonn in his time, occasionally...
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Layamon's Brut (ca. 1190 – 1215), also known as The Chronicle of Britain, is a Middle English alliterative verse poem compiled and recast by the English...
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Welsh name. Layamon also calls it this in his Brut. Geoffrey states that Arthur carried this lance with him at the Battle of Mount Badon. Layamon states in...
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among his barons, none of whom would accept a lower place than the others. Layamon added to the story when he adapted Wace's work into the Middle English...
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other languages, including Wace's Anglo-Norman Roman de Brut (c. 1155), Layamon's Middle English Brut (early 13th century), and the Welsh Brut y Brenhinedd...
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was succeeded by his cousin, Marganus, the son of Archgallo. In Layamon's Brut by Layamon he is named as Lador, but rules for a short time. Monarchie Nobelesse...
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blood rain, in the reign of Rivallo. This event was further expanded on by Layamon in his poem Brut (written around 1190), who described how blood rain was...
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transition into Middle English. Around the turn of the thirteenth century, Layamon wrote in Middle English. Other transitional works were popular entertainment...
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Mi – Miscellaneous observations from the year of Guixin (癸辛雜識) c. 1200 Layamon – Brut Nibelungenlied Early 13th century Ancrene Wisse Færeyinga saga Farid...
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survives in Geoffrey's continuators Wace and Layamon: they both give London as his burial place; Layamon specifically mentions Belyn's Gate (Billingsgate...
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