tory of the young woman.

[351] "Layamon's Brut or Chronicle of Britain, a poetical Semi-Saxon
paraphrase of the Brut of Wace," ed. by Sir Fred. Madden, London,
Society of Antiquaries, 1847, 3 vols. 8vo.--_Cf._ Ward, "Catalogue of
Romances," vol. i. 1883: "Many important additions are made to Wace, but
they seem to be mostly derived from Welsh traditions," p. 269, Wace's
"Geste des Bretons," or "Roman de Brut," written in 1155, was ed. by
Leroux de Lincy, Rouen, 1836, 2 vols. 8vo. _Cf._ P. Meyer, "De quelques
Chroniques Anglo-Normandes qui ont porte le nom de Brut," Bulletin de la
Societe des Anciens Textes francais, 1878. Layamon, son of Leovenath,
lived at Ernley, now Lower Arley, on the Severn; he uses sometimes
alliteration and sometimes rhyme in his verse. The MS. Cott. Otho C.
xiii contains a "somewhat modernised" version of Layamon's "Brut," late
thirteenth or early fourteenth century (Ward, _ibid._). On Layamon and
his work, see "Anglia," i. p. 197, and ii. p. 153.

[352] Madden, _ut supra_, vol. i. p. 1.

[353] Madden, _ut supra_, vol. ii. p. 476. The original text (printed in
short lines by Madden and here in long ones) runs thus:

Tha loh Arthur | the althele king,
And thus yeddien agon | mid gommenfulle worden:
Lien nu there Colgrim | thu were iclumben haghe
Thu clumbe a thissen hulle | wunder ane haeghe,
Swulc thu woldest to haevene | nu thu scalt to haelle;
Ther thu miht kenne | muche of thine cunne,
And gret thu ther Hengest | the cnihten wes fayerest,
Ebissa and Ossa | Octa and of thine cunne ma,
And bide heom ther wunie | wintres and sumeres,
And we scullen on londe | libben in blisse.

[354] "Roman de Brut," vol. ii. p. 57.

[355] On Robert, see above, pp. 117, 122. On the sources of his
chronicle, see Ellmer, "Anglia," vol. x. pp. 1 ff and 291 ff.

[356] "Lay of Havelok," ed. Skeat, E.E.T.S., 1868, end of thirteenth
century, p. 1.

[357] On wandering minstrels and jongleurs, see "English Wayfaring
Life," ii., chap. i., and below, p. 345, above, p. 162.

[358] "Romance of William of Palerne, translated from the French at the
command of Sir Humphrey de Bohun, ab. 1350," ed. Skeat, E.E.T.S., 1867,
8vo. l. 5533.

[359] "Cursor Mundi," ed. Morris, part v. p. 1651. A large number of
English mediaeval romances will be found among the publications of the
Early English Text Society (including among others: Ferumbras, Otuel,
Huon of Burdeux, Charles the Gret