ABSTRACT
Layamon’s Brut is the first full account of the Arthurian story in the English language. It is the second major poetic adaptation of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain, taking as its immediate model Wace’s Roman de Brut. Layamon’s poem is extremely long, consisting of over 32,000 half-lines, which cover British history from the time of the mythic Brutus to the retreat of Cadwallader before the Saxons in A.D. 689.
