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	Calls for Presentations, Papers, Publications: Layamon's Readers and Translators
		Topics might include, but would not be limited to: Layamon's influence in later medieval histories and romance; The Brut as historical document in the early modern period; Layamon's influence in modern literature; recent translations of the Brut.
		This session revisits the Brut in its historical and linguistic context: Layamon and the Old English heroic tradition, philological approaches to the Brut, Layamon and Anglo-Saxon historiography, the language in the Brut; its poetics; the Brut and Old English oral performativity, etc.
		The International Layamon's Brut society, North American Branch, is
	www.unm.edu /~loboblog/mort/archives/004253.html (184 words)

	Notes
		An extensive discussion of Layamon's versification may be found in S.K. Brehe, "'Rhythmical Alliteration': Ælfric's Prose and Layamon's Metre," in The Text and Tradition of Layamon's Brut, ed.
		I discuss below Layamon's observation that Britain has repeatedly been invaded and conquered by uncuðe folc (Brut 3543): "strangers," "foreigners," or "aliens."
		There is no evidence that Layamon used Bede's Ecclesiastical History as a source, although he claims to have--in an English version--at Brut 16-28.
	www.luc.edu /publications/medieval/vol17/17ch2n.html (1759 words)

	The University of Manchester
		Unjustly neglected until recent years, Layamon's Brut, the second longest poem in the English language, is now attracting the attention of researchers.
		Recent articles on Layamon have included `Thematic Wordplay in Layamon's Brut', Arthuriana, 8 (1998), and 'Marginal Illustration: a clue to the provenance of the Cotton Caligula manuscript of Layamon's Brut?', in Layamon: Contexts, Language, and Interpretation, ed.
		The first International Layamon Conference was held in August 1992 at the University of Lausanne, and the fifth conference is to be held in August 2004 at Brown University, Providence, USA.
	www.arts.manchester.ac.uk /subjectareas/englishamericanstudies/academicstaff/caroleweinberg (273 words)

	IV
		"Prosodic Decorum in Layamon’s Brut." Poetica (Tokyo) 18.40-53.
		"Layamon’s Brut and Alliterative Tradition: An Investigation of Metrics and Literary History." Univ. of Minnesota diss.
		"Versbau und Rhythmus." In his Layamons ‘Brut’: Eine literarische Studie, pp.
	www.wmich.edu /medieval/research/saslc/fulk/me.htm (3330 words)

	Gawain in Wace, Layamon, and the Alliterative Morte Arthure: A Cultural Comparison
		Layamon's Brut, which was written for an early 13th-century Anglo-Saxon audience (1210 is the best estimate for a date, though it may be as early as 1189), has a very tragical outlook on the story, not only of Arthur, but of all men.
		In a discussion of Layamon's Brut versus the Alliterative Morte Arthure, it is especially problematic, since the later work was written during the Alliterative Revival of the fourteenth century, and the writer may have been consciously trying to emulate an Old English attitude as well as the poetic forms.
		Layamon attempts to redefine Anglo-Saxon identity by connecting it with Norman romance tradition, rather than with Germanic culture.
	www.unc.edu /~lorelei/thesis.html (4379 words)

	Alibris: Layamon
		At sixteen-thousand lines long, Layamon's Brut, written c.1200-1220, is the second longest poem in the English language.
		Layamon's Brut : a history of the Britons
		by Layamon, and Barron, W. J., and Weinberg, S. see all copies from $35.74!
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Layamon (172 words)

	Layamon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Layamon, or Laȝamon (using the archaic letter yogh), was a poet of the early 13th century, whose Brut (c.
		Layamon's poem is also remarkable for its abundant Anglo-Saxon vocabulary; the scholar Roger Loomis counted only 150 words derived from Anglo-Norman in the 16,000 long-lines.
		Layamon describes himself in his poem as a priest, living at Areley Kings in Worcestershire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Layamon (306 words)

	LAYAMON - LoveToKnow Article on LAYAMON
		Layamon gives the whole story, from the time of Brutus to that of Cadwalader, who may be identified with the Caedwalla of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, baptized by Pope Sergius in the year 688.
		Both texts of Layamon are in a southwestern dialect; the A-text in particular shows the Wessex dialect of earlier times (commonly called Anglo-Saxon) in a much later form, and we can hardly doubt that the author, as he intimates, could read the old version of Beda intelligently.
		All that is known concerning Layamon is derived from two extant MSS., which present texts that often vary considerably, and it is necessary to understand their comparative value before any conclusions can be drawn.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LA/LAYAMON.htm (1011 words)

	§12. Layamon’s "Brut". XI. Early Transition English. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
		But if Wace& Brut forms the groundwork of Layamon’s work, in the latter there are numerous details, not accounted for by the original, which have generally been attributed to Celtic (i.e.
		To Gaimar moreover may probably be attributed several details of Layamon’s style—his tendency to employ forms of direct speech, his discursiveness, his appeals to the gods and his protestations as to the truth of his narrative.
		Layamon’s ambitious purpose was to tell the story of Britain from the time of the Flood.
	www.bartleby.com /211/1112.html (1766 words)

	LAYAMON
		LAYAMON, early English poet who flourished in the 12th century, and was by his own account priest near Bewdley, on the Severn; was author of a long poem or chronicle of 32,250 lines called "Brut d'Angleterre," and which is of interest as showing how Anglo-Saxon passed into the English of Chaucer.
	simplestartpage.com /2305L_LAYAMON.HTML (71 words)

	King Arthur: Wace, Layamon, and the Alliterative Morte Arthur
		The importance of Layamon's Brut is the focal point's being Arthur himself, with a court at London.
		Layamon does include the Round Table, of course, although his is the product of a chance meeting between Arthur and a Cornwall carpenter who offered to make a table that could be folded up and carried anywhere while at the same be able to seat 1,600.
		Whereas Wace used imagery and vivid language to enhance his descriptions of deeds and loves, Layamon hearkens back to the Anglo-Saxon days, when things were straightforward and warriors didn't have time to pursue affairs because they were too busy keeping themselves from being killed in battle.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/4186/Arthur/htmlpages/historicalliterature4.html (799 words)

	English Literature For Boys And Girls - H.E. Marshall - Free Online Library
		Layamon wrote his Brut more than a hundred years after the coming of the Normans, and although his poem is in the main alliterative, sometimes he has rhyming lines such as "mochel dal heo iwesten: mid harmen pen mesten," that is:--
		Layamon tells many wonderful stories of Arthur, from the time he was born to his last great battle in which he was killed, fighting against the rebel Modred.
		Layamon took Wace's book for a foundation, but he added a great deal to it, and there are many stories in Layamon not to be found in Wace.
	marshall.thefreelibrary.com /English-Literature-For-Boys-And-Girls/7-1 (2208 words)

	Layamon's Brut
		Layamon's Brut is one of the first major texts written in a Middle English dialect.
		Queen Eleanor who died in 1204 and Layamon referring to her in the past tense.
		From the scarce information that the author of the Brut supplies we know that he was a priest at Areley by the bank of the River Severn close to Redstone, which would indicate a south-west Midland dialect.
	web.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de /~holteir/companion/Navigation/Anonymous_Texts/Layamon_s_Brut/layamon_s_brut.html (341 words)

	Arthuriana Pedagogy Page - Arthurian Audio Files - Layamon's Brut
		Layamon's Middle English is earlier than Chaucer's language, and sometimes sounds more Germanic, closer to Anglo-Saxon.
		Cottle's reading, but the name is usually rendered "Layamon," occasionally "Lazamon" or "Lawman." In this text the þ "thorn" and ð "eth" represent a [th] sound.
		The [y] in the name of the author and in the word "Ernleye" below is actually a "yogh," which looks like a flat headed 3 and for which there is no HTML code.
	www.smu.edu /arthuriana/teaching/layamon_cottle.html (233 words)

	LAYAMON Brut (c. 1205)
		There was a priest in the land; Layamon was he called.
		Layamon laid these books out, and he turned the leaves;
		And he then did give it to the noble Eleanor,
	faculty.smu.edu /bwheeler/ARTHUR/layamon.html (4280 words)

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