Layamons Brut. Eine literarische Studie

by Herbert Pilch

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First edition

Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1960. First edition, 8vo, pp. 274, 1 ; original green printed wrappers, extremities faded, otherwise fine. With a presentation slip from the publisher laid in. Volume 91 in the publisher's Anglistische Forschungen series. Also known as The Chronicle of Britain, a Middle English poem compiled and recast by the English priest Layamon. The Brut is 16,095 lines long and narrates the history of Britain: it is the first historiography

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