Brut

Layamon

first published 1924 IndyPublish, 2007 paperback 140 pages

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"This version of Brut is a rendering into modern English, in verse format, of the Middle English story of Britain, from its founding by the legendary Brutus, a supposed descendant of the Trojans, to the final loss of land and prestige when the Saxons took over Britain. Lawman, a priest in the Welsh Marches in the diocese of Worcester, was translating from the twelfth-century French octosyllabic couplets of Wace, who...

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Editions we hold

Brut (Dodo Press) paperback · 2007 · Dodo Press · 148 pages · 9781406536218
Brut paperback · 2007 · IndyPublish · 140 pages · 9781435324596
Brut hardcover · 2007 · IndyPublish · 140 pages · 9781435324558
Brut. paperback · 2007 · Echo Library · 116 pages · 9781406818147
Brut paperback · 2005 · IndyPublish.com · 140 pages · 9781421940748
Brut hardcover · 2005 · IndyPublish.com · 140 pages · 9781421940731
Le gesta di Artù edition · 1998 · Luni · 412 pages
Brut edition · 1993 · J.M. Dent · 485 pages
Brut edition · 1992 · J.M. Dent · 485 pages
Brut edition · 1992 · St. Martin's Press · 485 pages
Layamon: Brut. hardcover · 1978 · Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press · 839 pages · 9780197222799

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