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Layamon's Middle English is notably "native" in its vocabulary, i.e. devoid of words borrowed from Norman French; the scholar B.S. Monroe counted a mere 150 words derived from French in the poem's 16,000 lines. It is remarkable for its abundant
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remains one of the best extant examples of early Middle English. During an era in English history when most prose and poetry were composed in French, Layamon wrote for his illiterate, impoverished religious audience in
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Everett, Dorothy. (1978) "Layamon and the Earliest Middle English Alliterative Verse." Essays on Middle English Literature. Ed. Patricia Kean. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,.
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came to the throne. Henry regarded himself as an Englishman above any other nationality, unlike many of his recent predecessors, and moved his kingdom away from the
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Several original passages in the poem — at least in accordance with the present knowledge of extant texts from the
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C xiii, copied about fifty years later (though the extant, damaged, text is shorter). Both manuscripts are in the
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vocabulary; deliberately archaic Saxon forms that were quaint even by Anglo-Saxon standards. Imitations in the
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Laȝamon: Brut, Edited from British Museum MS. Cotton Caligula A. ix and British Museum MS. Cotton Otho C. xiii
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Like the earlier Latin works, it is now regarded as valueless as history. It gives the history of the
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is 16,096 lines long and narrates a fictionalized version of the history of Britain up to the
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Layamons Brut, or Chronicle of Britain; A Poetical Semi-Saxon Paraphrase of The Brut of Wace
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Layamons Brut, or Chronicle of Britain; A Poetical Semi-Saxon Paraphrase of The Brut of Wace
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Layamons Brut, or Chronicle of Britain; A Poetical Semi-Saxon Paraphrase of The Brut of Wace
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than to verse, especially in comparison with later alliterative writings such as
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alliterative verse show a knowledge and interest in preserving its conventions.
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Laȝamon's Arthur: The Arthurian Section of Laȝamon's ‘Brut’ (Lines 9229-14297)
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A ix, dating from the third quarter of the 13th century, and in the
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has proven extremely difficult to characterise. Written in a loose
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as the people 'who first possessed the land of the English'.
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of a line, it is perhaps closer to the rhythmical prose of
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dialects that had ruled the country's cultural endeavors.
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Two copies of the manuscript are known; one in the MS.
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W. R. J. Barron and S. C. Weinberg (ed. and trans.),
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Layamon's Brut and the Anglo-Norman Vision of History
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Index

Middle English
alliterative verse
Layamon
Early Middle Ages
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Britain
Brutus of Troy
Anglo-Norman French
Roman de Brut
Wace
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Latin
Historia Regum Britanniae
King Arthur
alliterative verse
Middle English
rhyming chroniclers
Britons
Anglo-Saxons
Cadwallon ap Cadfan
alliterative
caesural
hemistichs
Ælfric of Eynsham
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Piers Plowman
Anglo-Saxon
Old English
Worcestershire
Henry III of England

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