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
As compared with Layamon and Orm they show a development scarcely worthy of a lapse of more than two centuries.
From Early Theories of Translation by Flora Ross Amos
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 Isaac Disraeli
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
But Layamon gives us Wace as an authority, and this is not in Wace.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
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