Editing Layamon (section)

==Brut==
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''[[Layamon's Brut|Brut]]'' (ca. 1190) is a [[Middle English]] poem compiled and recast by Layamon. It is named after [[Great Britain|Britain]]'s mythical founder, [[Brutus of Troy]]. It is contained in the manuscripts [[List of manuscripts in the Cotton library#Caligula|Cotton Caligula]] A.ix, written in the first quarter of the 13th century, and in the [[List of manuscripts in the Cotton library#Otho|Cotton Otho]] C.xiii, written about fifty years later (though in this edition it is shorter). Both are kept at the [[British Library]].

The ''Brut'' is 16,095 lines long and narrates the history of Britain. It is largely based on the [[Anglo-Norman language|Anglo-Norman]] ''[[Roman de Brut]]'' by [[Wace]], which is in turn inspired by [[Geoffrey of Monmouth]]'s ''[[Historia Regum Britanniae]]''. It is, however, longer than both and includes an enlarged section on the life and exploits of [[King Arthur]]. Among the new material Layamon provided were an account of the birth of Merlin and one of the origins of the [[Round Table]],<ref>J. R. Tanner ed., The Cambridge Medieval History VI (Cambridge 1929) p. 826</ref> as well as details of Arthur's departure by ship to [[Avalon]] to be healed by the elf-queen.<ref>C. Tolkien ed., The Fall of Arthur (2015) p. 146-8</ref>

It is written in a combination of [[alliterative verse]], deriving from Old English, and rhyme, influenced by Wace's ''[[Roman de Brut]]'' and used in later Middle English poetry.