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Updated: June 27, 2025
We give here a free rendering of selected lines at the beginning of the poem, which tell us all we know of Layamon, the first who ever wrote as an Englishman for Englishmen, including in the term all who loved England and called it home, no matter where their ancestors were born. Now there was a priest in the land named Layamon. He was son of Leovenath may God be gracious unto him.
But the "Sayings of Ælfred" show a native literature going on through the reign of Henry the Second, and the appearance of a great work of English verse coincides in point of time with the return of John to his island realm. "There was a priest in the land whose name was Layamon; he was the son of Leovenath; may the Lord be gracious to him!
"There was a priest in the land, who was named Layamon; he was son of Leovenath may the Lord be gracious to him! he dwelt at Ernley, at a noble church upon Severn's bank, good it there seemed to him near Radestone, where he books read.
Metrical historian, the s. of Leovenath. All that is known of him is gathered from his own writings. In his day the works of Geoffrey of Monmouth and Wace, in French, were the favourite reading of the educated, and "it came to him in mind" that he would tell the story of Brut in English verse.
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