Layamon

American  

[ley-uh-muhn, lah-yuh-] / ˈleɪ ə mən, ˈlɑ yə- /

noun

1. flourished c1200, English poet and chronicler.

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Layamon British  

/ ˈlaɪəmən, ˈlɔːmən /

noun

1. 12th-century English poet and priest; author of the Brut, a chronicle providing the earliest version of the Arthurian story in English

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Example Sentences

The Ormulum and Layamon's Brut, both written probably during the first decade of the Thirteenth Century, have become familiar to all students of Old English.

From Project Gutenberg

Layamon, who in his translation of Wace treats his original much as Wace treated Geoffrey, says that there was a tradition that she had drowned herself, and that her memory and that of Mordred were hateful in every land, so that none would offer prayer for their souls.

From Project Gutenberg

In the next century the influence of Geoffrey is unmistakably attested by the Brut of Layamon, and the rhyming English chronicle of Robert of Gloucester.

From Project Gutenberg

And when Layamon a ‘Saxon’ turned the French rhyming version of Geoffrey into English—Layamon’s Brut—he added a number of things which are neither in the Latin nor the French, but obtained by Layamon himself independently, somehow or other, from the Welsh.

From Project Gutenberg

Layamon lived on the banks of the Severn, and very probably he may have done the same kind of note-taking in Wales or among Welsh acquaintances as was done by Walter Map a little earlier.

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