Editing Layamon (section)

{{Short description|English poet}}
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'''Layamon''' or '''Laghamon''' ({{IPAc-en|UK|ˈ|l|aɪ|.|ə|m|ə|n|,_|-|m|ɒ|n}}, {{IPAc-en|US|ˈ|l|eɪ|.|ə|m|ə|n|,_|ˈ|l|aɪ|-}}; {{IPA|enm|ˈlaɣamon|lang}}) – spelled '''Laȝamon''' or '''Laȝamonn''' in his time, occasionally  written '''Lawman''' –  was an English poet of the late 12th/early 13th century and author of the ''Brut'', a notable work that was the first to present the legends of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in English poetry (the first Arthurian poems were by Frenchman [[Chrétien de Troyes]]).

[[J. R. R. Tolkien]] valued him as a transmitter of early English legends in a fashion comparable to the role played with respect to Icelandic legend by [[Snorri Sturluson]].<ref>T. Shippey, ''The Road to Middle-Earth'' (1992) p. 300 and p. 57</ref>