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Layamon's Brut: The Poem and its Sources

Françoise H.M. Le Saux

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A comprehensive and objective study of Layamon's sources is long overdue. As a first step Franoise 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 in Welsh, English, Latin and French and perhaps even Scandinavian.

Language: English

Pages: 252

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: D.S. Brewer

Release: October 12, 1989

ISBN: 0859912825

ISBN 13: 9780859912822

Layamon's Brut: The Poem and its Sources

Françoise H.M. Le Saux

4.3/5 ( ratings)

A comprehensive and objective study of Layamon's sources is long overdue. As a first step Franoise 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 in Welsh, English, Latin and French and perhaps even Scandinavian.

Language: English

Pages: 252

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: D.S. Brewer

Release: October 12, 1989

ISBN: 0859912825

ISBN 13: 9780859912822

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