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- Layamon or Laghamon (UK: /ˈlaɪ.əmən, -mɒn/, US: /ˈleɪ.əmən, ˈlaɪ-/; Middle English: [ˈlaɣamon]) – spelled Laȝamon or Laȝamonn in his time, occasionally...
- 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...
- 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...
- was succeeded by his cousin, Marg****, the son of Archgallo. In Layamon's Brut by Layamon he is named as Lador, but rules for a short time. Monarchie Nobelesse...
- 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...
- survives in Geoffrey's continuators Wace and Layamon: they both give London as his burial place; Layamon specifically mentions Belyn's Gate (Billingsgate...
- 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...
- 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...
- brother, Elidurus, the kingship p****ed to an unnamed son of Gorboni****, who Layamon calls Lador. Monarchie Nobelesse website, Bretons "Geoffry of Monmouth:...
- 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...