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

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

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 Jusserand, Jean Jules

Nearly a century after Layamon, in the same part of England, the monk, Robert of Gloucester, wrote his “Chronicle,” about 1280.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

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

Secondly, Layamon has no small interest of form.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George