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    The Brut or Roman de Brut (completed 1155) by the poet Wace is a loose and expanded translation in almost 15,000 lines of Norman-French verse of Geoffrey...
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    Wace (section Roman de Brut)
    adds only minor details to Geoffrey's text. The Roman de Brut became the basis, in turn, for Layamon's Brut, an alliterative Middle English poem, and Peter...
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  • Brutus of Troy, the poem is largely based on the Anglo-Norman French Roman de Brut by Wace, which is in turn a version of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin...
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  • Look up brut in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Brut may refer to: Roman de Brut, a verse chronicle in Kirchheimer by Wace Layamon's Brut, an English...
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    ("Cil Costentin, li niès Artur, Ki out l'espée Caliburc"). In Wace's Roman de Brut (c. 1150–1155), composed in Old French, the sword is called Caliburn...
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  • example in all literature of religious symbolism on a shield. In the Roman de Brut, the Norman poet Wace's expanded translation of Geoffrey's Historia...
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    archaeological basis to the story. The Round Table first appeared in Wace's Roman de Brut, a Norman language adaptation of Geoffrey's Historia finished in 1155...
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    such as Wace's Norman French Roman de Brut, Layamon's Middle English Brut, were named after Brutus, and the word brut came to mean a chronicle of British...
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  • Layamon (category 13th-century English Roman Catholic priests)
    British Library. The Brut is 16,095 lines long and narrates the history of Britain. It is largely based on the Anglo-Norman Roman de Brut by Wace, which is...
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    1106. It is a national epic of Normandy. Following the success of his Roman de Brut, which recounted the history of the Britons, Wace was apparently commissioned...
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