Layamon's Arthur: The Arthurian Section of Layamon's Brut

Layamon's Brut is a landmark in English literature, the first major work in English after the Norman Conquest, and the precursor of a rich Arthurian literature, from Malory to Tennyson and on to our own time. This edition combines a fully-edited version of the original text with a close parallel prose translation, together with a lengthy Introduction, textual notes and a full and up-to-date bibliography.

Written c.1200 — 1220, the Brut develops the themes of its principal source, Robert Wace's Roman de Brut, itself a version of Geoffrey of Monmouth's bestseller, the Historia Regum Britanniae, in a metre and idiom reminiscent of Old English. It demonstrates the fundamental strength of a native culture which survived two centuries of French dominance to re-emerge as a fusion of a national tradition and continental influences.

• Author
• Layamon, S.C. Weinberg, W.R.J. Barron

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 362

• Publisher
• Liverpool University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780859896856

• Characters
• King Arthur

• Settings
• Britain

• Genres
• poetry, medieval, arthurian, literature

• Release date
• 2001