Layamons Brut, Or, Chronicle of Britain: A Poetical Semi-Saxon Paraphrase of the Brut of Wace, Volume 3Society of Antiquaries of London, 1847 |
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alre Aršur Arthur Bede Beduer beod beon bere Britons Brut Brutten burh Cadwalan Cędmon Chron cnihtef cnihtes comen Cott earl Edwine English eorl error ferde fihte fone French text Geoffrey GLOSSARY gode Gurmund hafde hehte heom heore heze hine hire hond Ibid king knights land later text Lazamon leode leoden lette lines londe Merlin mickle mihte Modred muchel Nennius omitted p.pl p.pr passage Penda Peter Langtoft remark rendered riht Robert of Brunne Robert of Gloucester Rome Saxon says slain ſwide ſwipe text of Wace thee ther thou translation verb Wace Walwain Welsh Welsh version wende wenden weore weoren wepne wiš wolde word wulle žan žat žer žis ου υυ
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Page 140 - ... mingled ! For each slew downright, were he swain, were he knight. There was Modred slain, and deprived of life-day, and all his knights slain in the fight. There were slain all the brave, Arthur's warriors, high and low, and all the Britons of Arthur's board, and all his dependants, of many kingdoms.
Page 409 - Thus of Arthur I fynde neuer more wryton in bookes that ben auctorysed, nor more of the veray certente of his deth herde I neuer redde ; but thus was he ledde aweye in a shyppe, wherin were thre quenes ; that one was kyng Arthurs syster. Quene Morgan la Fay ; the other was the Quene of North Gales ; the thyrd was the Quene of the Waste Londes. Also there was Nynyue [Vyvianne], the chyef Lady of the Lake,
Page 142 - to the fairest of all maidens,' to Argante the queen, ' an elf most fair,' and she shall make my wounds all sound ; make me all whole with healing draughts. And afterwards I will come [again] to my kingdom, ' and dwell with the Britons with mickle joy '." Even with the words there approached from the sea ' that was ' a [little] short hoat, floating [v.
Page 57 - They caused all the horsemen to alight in the wood, and get ready their weapons, and all their weeds (garments), except an hundred men, that there should look out, if they might descry through thing of any kind. Then saw they afar, in a great plain, three knights ride with all their main. After the three knights there came thirty; after the thirty they saw three thousand; thereafter came thronging thirty thousand anon, of Romanish folk, clad in armour. And ever the earls before them...
Page 141 - Arthur himself wounded with a broad slaughterspear; fifteen dreadful wounds he had; in the least one might thrust two gloves! Then was there no more remained in the fight, of two hundred thousand men that there lay hewed in pieces, except Arthur the king alone, and two of his knights.
Page 13 - ... loathsome to the sight; with lightning and with storm sternly he advanced; there is in no land any bear so loathly. Then came there westward, winding with the clouds, a burning dragon; burghs he swallowed; with his fire he lighted all this land's realm ; methought in my sight that the sea gan to burn of light and of fire, that the dragon carried. This dragon and the bear, both ^ together, quickly soon together they came; they smote them' together with fierce assaults; flames flew from their eyes...
Page 136 - Kaerleon drew, as quickly as she might ; 'thither she brought by night [for she would not see Arthur more, for all the worlds-realm ; to Kaerleon she came by night, with] two of her knights ; and [there] men 'covered her head with a holy veil, and she was there a nun...
Page 418 - Vocatur autem hujusmodi cauda ab indigenis, patria lingua, Mughel, unde et villa in qua beato Augustino hujusmodi irrogata est injuria nomen sortita est Muglington, id est, villa Muglingorum, usque in praesentem diem.
Page 124 - ... you tell strange discourse. Now to-morrow, when it is day, and the Lord it sendeth, forth I will march in toward Britain ; and Modred I will slay, and burn the queen; and all I will destroy, that approved the treachery. And here I will leave the dearest of men to me, Howel, my loved relative, noblest of my kin ; and half my army I will leave in this land, to maintain all this kingdom, that I have in my hand. And when these things are all done, back I will come to Rome, and deliver my fair...
Page 118 - Modred his head, so that it rolled on the field. And the queen I cut all in pieces with my dear sword, and afterwards I set her down in a black pit.