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This is Robert Mannyng of Brunne (Robert of Brunne), The Chronicle, Part 1, composed about 1338, which translates Wace’s Roman de Brut for its British section. This version is from the Lambeth Palace MS 131 readings, which is why the spellings (“byhoued”, “ilk oþer”, “laught”, “hente”) sit in the north-east Midlands dialect rather than Wace’s […]