This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...his authority, but worked over the foreign material in popular wise, and derived the form for it from his own intuitive sense. 1 Albums, Abbot of Canterbury (died 732), is extolled by Beda for his learning and the rich material which he contributed to the Ecclesiastical History, and is called auctor ante omnes atom ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...his authority, but worked over the foreign material in popular wise, and derived the form for it from his own intuitive sense. 1 Albums, Abbot of Canterbury (died 732), is extolled by Beda for his learning and the rich material which he contributed to the Ecclesiastical History, and is called auctor ante omnes atom adjutor huius p/usculi. If Geoffrey's tales had grown in volume in the hands of Wace, the English poet expands them to colossal dimensions. While Lajamon skips but little of his original, he amplifies and adds everywhere. He portrays in full situations to which Wace merely alludes. He transforms the dry statement regarding a speech or a discourse into a dramatic scene. And he intersperses many quite special particulars, names, even entire tales, in which he often not only augments the material, but departs from his author and contradicts him. Some of Lajamon's interpolations can have been derived from traditions clinging to places not far distant from the poet's home; as the tale of the founding of Gloucester, and the story of the capture of Cirencester by Gormund, which he gives more fully than Wace. But the scene of the episodes interwoven by Lajamon extends over the entire British isle, and beyond it. Many of these additions seem to be derived from British sources; some rest, beyond doubt, upon English tradition. In connecting single tales to the whole work, the poet frequently commits flagrant anachronisms; as when he makes the cheorles of East-Anglia, under the twin brothers Ethelbald and Aelfwald, rise against Gratian long before the English immigration. Among the various amplifications, those relating to Arthur are conspicuous in extent and importance. They show how busy the Celtic and English fancy in the west of England then was in this ...
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