Brut (Layamon)

Brut (Layamon)

__NOTOC__"Brut" (ca. 1190) is a Middle English poem compiled and recast by the English priest Layamon. It is named for Britain's mythical founder, Brutus of Troy. It is contained in the MS. Cotton Caligula A ix, written in the first quarter of the 13th century, and in the Cotton Otho C xiii, about fifty years later (though in this edition it is shorter). Both exist in the British Museum.

The "Brut" is 16,095 lines long and narrates the history of Britain. It is largely based on the Anglo-Norman "Roman de Brut" by Wace, which is in turn inspired by Geoffrey of Monmouth's "Historia Regum Britanniae", though is longer than both and includes an enlarged section on the life and exploits of King Arthur. The rhyming style is the alliterative verse line style commonly used in Middle English poetry.

The two halves of the alliterative lines are often linked by rhyme as well as by alliteration.

Further reading

*Citation
last=Layamon
author-link=Layamon
year=c. 1215
date=c. 1215
editor-last=Madden
editor-first=Frederic
editor-link=Frederic Madden
contribution=
title=Layamons Brut, or Chronicle of Britain; A Poetical Semi-Saxon Paraphrase of The Brut of Wace
volume=I
publisher=The Society of Antiquaries of London
publication-date=1847
publication-place=London
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=DOJRHk2MM9YC&printsec=frontcover - with translation
*Citation
last=Layamon
author-link=Layamon
year=c. 1215
date=c. 1215
editor-last=Madden
editor-first=Frederic
editor-link=Frederic Madden
contribution=
title=Layamons Brut, or Chronicle of Britain; A Poetical Semi-Saxon Paraphrase of The Brut of Wace
volume=II
publisher=The Society of Antiquaries of London
publication-date=1847
publication-place=London
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=0xE7AQhSPuMC&printsec=frontcover - with translation
*Citation
last=Layamon
author-link=Layamon
year=c. 1215
date=c. 1215
editor-last=Madden
editor-first=Frederic
editor-link=Frederic Madden
title=Layamons Brut, or Chronicle of Britain; A Poetical Semi-Saxon Paraphrase of The Brut of Wace
volume=III
publisher=The Society of Antiquaries of London
publication-date=1847
publication-place=London
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=AIIlAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover - with translation


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