Matter of Britain Figure
Layamon
- Summary
- A parish priest at Areley Kings, Worcestershire, who turned Wace into the first Arthurian narrative in English, in alliterative long lines. His Arthur is harsher than Wace's and his poem is noticeably interested in the English as a people.
- Kind
- author
- Floruit
- c. 1200
Worldviews
Provenance
- Source method
- Web research
- Review status
- DRAFT
- Confidence
- MEDIUM