Text name The Brut or The Chronicles of England File name cmbrut3.m3 Manuscript Rawlinson B. 171, Bodleian Library, Oxford Date c1400 Dialect West Midlands Genre History Edition Brie, F.W.D. 1906. The Brut or the Chronicles of England. Part I. EETS O.S. 131. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Sample Pp. 1-128, 217-228 Remarks This chronicle with its continuations covers the period from the mythical Albina and Brutus to 1479 CE. The first part (up to 1333), from which the sample is taken, is a translation of the French Brut d'Engleterre.
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