Layamon

Other types of early literature are the riming chronicles or verse histories (such as Layamon's _Brut_, a famous poem, in which the

Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909

Brut, by Layamon, trans. by Eugene Mason (Gutenberg text)

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Layamon began to journey wide over this land and procured the noble books which he took for pattern.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

Layamon, son of Leovenath, lived at Ernley, now Lower Arley, on the Severn; he uses sometimes alliteration and sometimes rhyme in his verse.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

As compared with Layamon and Orm they show a development scarcely worthy of a lapse of more than two centuries.

Early Theories of Translation Flora Ross Amos

On Layamon and his work, see "Anglia," i.p. 197, and ii.p. 153.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

Layamon in the thirteenth century mingled both prosodies in his "Brut," sometimes using alliteration, sometimes rhyme, and occasionally both at once.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

Layamon considers that the glories of the Britons are English glories, and he celebrates their triumphs with an exulting heart, as if British victories were not Saxon defeats.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

In _Layamon_ we have (244, 16.), "the put wæs _i-lær_."

Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850 Various

After Layamon, translations and adaptations soon become very plentiful, metrical chronicles, like the one composed towards the end of the thirteenth century by Robert of Gloucester, [355] are compiled on the pattern of the French ones, for the use and delight of the English people; chivalrous romances are also written in English.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand