Layamon's Brut: The Poem and its Sources

Francoise H M Le Saux

Layamon's Brut: The Poem and its Sources
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
12 October 1989
Pages
252
ISBN
9780859912822

Layamon’s Brut: The Poem and its Sources

Francoise H M Le Saux

This is a study of Layamon’s poem Brut . The author begins with an investigation into the English poet’s handling of his main source, Wace’s Roman de Brut , to determine what principles guided his own composition. These established, she goes on to distinguish between different sorts of variation from the Roman de Brut , thereby providing norms against which to gauge the probability of further, secondary sources. These additional sources are then identified in the various fields suggested by the poem: historical, literary, religious writings (or tales) in Welsh, English, French, Latin and perhaps even Scandinavian. This book is part of a series of works on Arthurian literature.

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