Historical reference: Do not rely on this information. It is very old. About this collection
Layamon, an early English poet "of whom little is known, was the son of Leuca or Leovenath, and was a priest at Ernly, on the bank of the Severn. He flourished during the 12th century, and his poem of Brut d'Angleterre is valuable as showing the transition of Anglo-Saxon to the English of Chaucer and the beginning of a unity of interest between the English and Celtic elements of the country. His poem was founded upon Wace, and there are two texts extant which show a remarkable absence of French-derived words.