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
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 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
Layamon has the French rhyming version before him, and naturally does not think of turning it into prose.
From Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 by W. P. (William Paton) Ker
The Ormulum and the Ancren Riwle appear to be—the former exactly and the latter nearly of the same date as Layamon, all being near to 1200.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
Layamon began to journey wide over this land and procured the noble books which he took for pattern.
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand
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