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...account of the Arthurian legend in the English language (Wilhelm 109). Its immediate model is Wace's Roman de Brut, and Layamon readily acknowledges Wace as a source in this work, but it is the second major poetic adaptation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain (Wilhelm 109). Layamon's poem is long. Its 32,000 half-lines cover British history form the time of the mythic Brutus to the retreat of Cadwallader before the Saxons in 689 A.D. (Wilhelm 109). It was probably written after the death of Henry II in 1189 (Wilhelm 109).
Layamon endeavored to be...