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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...
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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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transition into
Middle English.
Around the turn of the
thirteenth century,
Layamon wrote in
Middle English.
Other transitional works were po****r entertainment...
