• 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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  • 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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    departure gives Uther Pendragon an excuse to make war on Gorlois. In Layamon's Brut, Igraine "was sorry and sorrowful at heart / that so many men should...
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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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  • 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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    Norman font under the nave floor with an inscription containing the name of Layamon, establishes the connection with the writer and shows that a church existed...
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  • de Brut, a verse chronicle in Kirchheimer by Wace Layamon's Brut, an English chronicle by Layamon based on Wace Brut y Tywysogion (Chronicle of the Princes)...
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    Caliburn was a gift from Avalon, and Arthur was taken to Avalon to be healed. Layamon in his Brut also said that Arthur was given various blessings by fairies...
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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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    Britanniae (c. 1136) Vita Merlini (c. 1150) Translations Roman de Brut Layamon's Brut Brut y Brenhinedd Breta sögur Merlínússpá Characters Aeneas Saint...
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    1155. Wace's version was in turn translated into Middle English verse by Layamon (the Brut) in the early 13th century. In the second quarter of the 13th...
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    was later retold by Wace (in French) and Layamon (in Middle English); the final column represents Layamon's version. After the death of Cadwallader, the...
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  • in which a pronoun rather than an adverb splits the infinitive, is in Layamon's Brut (early 13th century): and he cleopede him to; alle his wise cnihtes...
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  • the hemistich as a coherent unit of verse, with both the Pearl Poet and Layamon using a regularized set of principles for which metrical (as well as alliterative)...
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    German Tristan [de] Hartmann von Aue 12th Middle High German Erec, Iwein Layamon 13th Middle English Brut Thomas Malory 15th Middle English Le Morte d'Arthur...
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    of Good Love, Juan Ruiz The Book of Margery Kempe, Margery Kempe Brut, Layamon Brut, Wace The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer Consolation of Philosophy...
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    17th century, the story appears in most early histories of Britain. Wace, Layamon, Raphael Holinshed, William Camden and John Milton repeat the legend and...
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  • A Grief Observed (1961) They Asked for a Paper (1962) Selections from Layamon's Brut (1963) Letters to Malcolm (1964) The Discarded Image (1964) Of Other...
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    Historia Regum Britanniae, further turned into Wenhauer (Wenhaiuer) by Layamon (Gwenayfer in one manuscript) and into both Genoivre and Gahunmare in Wace's...
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    Britanniae (c. 1136) Vita Merlini (c. 1150) Translations Roman de Brut Layamon's Brut Brut y Brenhinedd Breta sögur Merlínússpá Characters Aeneas Saint...
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  • the Historia Brittonum. The shield is also named and described by Wace, Layamon, Roger of Wendover and Robert of Gloucester among other medieval writers...
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    Middle Ages. In this respect, the works in this branch are similar to Layamon's Brut and the Perlesvaus. Beroul's version is the oldest known version...
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  • A Grief Observed (1961) They Asked for a Paper (1962) Selections from Layamon's Brut (1963) Letters to Malcolm (1964) The Discarded Image (1964) Of Other...
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    language. Additional literary sources of the 12th and 13th centuries include Layamon's Brut and The Owl and the Nightingale. Some scholars have defined "Early...
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  • brother, Elidurus, the kingship passed to an unnamed son of Gorbonianus, who Layamon calls Lador. Monarchie Nobelesse website, Bretons "Geoffry of Monmouth:...
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