Layamon
Americannoun
noun
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After 15 years as a widower, Benn marries the young, beautiful Matilda Layamon, only child of a wealthy, well-connected physician.
From Time Magazine Archive
On Layamon and his work, see "Anglia," i. p.
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules
Thus in the Arthurian part, just as we find additions in Wace to Geoffrey, so we find additions to Wace in Layamon.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
It came to him in mind," says Layamon, speaking of himself, "and in his chief thought that he would of the English tell the noble deeds....
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules
Layamon began to journey wide over this land, and procured the noble books which he took for authority.
From Early Theories of Translation by Amos, Flora Ross
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