'Brut', about the mythic Brutus of Troy, is a Middle English poem compiled and recast by the priest Layamon. It is contained in the MS. Cotton Caligula A ix, written in the first quarter of the 13th Century, and in the Cotton Otho C xiii, about fifty years later (though in this edition it is shorter). Both exist in the British Museum. Brutus of Troy or Brutus I of the Britons (Welsh: Bryttys), according to the accounts of the early Welsh historians Nennius and Geoffrey of Monmouth, was the first king of the Britons. ... Middle English is the name given by historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman invasion in 1066 and the mid-to-late 15th century, when the Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, began to become widespread, a process aided by the... Layamon, or Laȝamon (using the archaic letter yogh), was a poet of the early 13th century, whose Brut (c. ... The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2000 to become the Great Court, with a tessellated glass roof by Foster and Partners surrounding the original Reading Room. ...

It is 16,000 lines long and narrates the history of Britain. Although coming after, and being based in part, on the Roman de Brut by Wace, which was in turn inspired by Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, it is longer than both and includes an enlarged section on the life and exploits of King Arthur. Roman de Brut Roman de Brut or Brut is a verse literary history of England of 14,866 lines written in Anglo-Norman by Wace. ... Wace (c. ... Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. ... Geoffrey of Monmouths Historia Regum Britanniæ (English: The History of the Kings of Britain) was written around 1136. ... King Arthur is an important figure in the mythology of Great Britain, where he appears as the ideal of kingship in both war and peace. ...

The rhyming style is the alliterative verse line style commonly used in Old English poetry. The Old English epic poem Beowulf is written in alliterative verse. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ...