or Lawamon
flourished 12th century
Middle English poet.
A priest who lived in Worcestershire, he is the author of the romance-chronicle the Brut ( 0441; 1200), the outstanding product of the 12th-century English literary revival and the first work in English to treat the Arthurian legend . His source was Wace 's Roman de Brut . In some 16,000 long alliterative lines, the Brut tells of Britain from the time of the landing of Brutus, great-grandson of the Trojan Aeneas , to the final Saxon victory over the Britons in 689.