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.
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It is a volume written by a monk of St. Austin’s at Canterbury, in the Kentish dialect, about a century and a half after Layamon, and half a century after Robert of Gloucester, in 1340.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
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
Examples of this are the late semi-Saxon Homilies, in which we see the gradual decay of the old flectional grammar: but the most 27signal examples are the two great poetical works of Layamon and Orm.
From Anglo-Saxon Literature by Earle, John
A recent critic opines that Layamon “seems to have halted between two languages, the written and the spoken.”
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
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