Author : Françoise Hazel Marie Le Saux
Release : 1989
Genre : Literary Collections
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Layamon's Brut - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Layamon's Brut write by Françoise Hazel Marie Le Saux. This book was released on 1989. Layamon's Brut available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.