Layamon

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Lay·a·mon (l

-m

n, l

-) fl. 13th century.

English poet who wrote The Brut (c. 1205), the first account in English of King Arthur and his knights.

Layamon [ˈlaɪəmən], Lawman [ˈlɔːmən]

(Biographies / Layamon (12th-century 12th-century M, English, WRITING: poet, RELIGION: clergyman) 12th-century English poet and priest; author of the Brut, a chronicle providing the earliest version of the Arthurian story in English

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