CHRONICLERS, THE RHYMING

CHRONICLERS, THE RHYMING
   a series of writers who flourished in England in the 13th century, and related histories of the country in rhyme, in which the fabulous occupies a conspicuous place, among which Layamon's "Brut" (1205) takes the lead.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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