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Layamon's Brut: The Poem and Its Sources

Layamon's Brut: The Poem and Its Sources

Le Saux, Francoise H. M.

Hardcover

Series: Arthurian Studies, Book 19

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0859912825
ISBN13: 9780859912822
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: Oct 12 1989
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
A comprehensive and objective study of Layamon's sources is long overdue. As a first step Françoise le Saux investigates the English poet's handling of his main source, Wace's Roman de Brut, to determine what principles guided the composition of the English Brut. These established, she is able to distinguish between different sorts of variation from the Roman, thereby providing norms against which to gauge the probability of further, secondary sources. Additional sources are then identified, in the various fields suggested by the poem: historical; literary; and religious writings (or tales) in Welsh, English, Latin and French and perhaps even Scandinavian.

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