Roman de Brut
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"Hence Romance was first merely a general designation applied to works written in the vernacular as opposed to those composed in Latin; and was often applied to real history. Its first application to an epic poem was in the title of Wace's "Roman du Brut.""--History of Fiction (1814) by John Colin Dunlop |
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The Brut or Roman de Brut (completed 1155) by the poet Wace is a loose and expanded translation in almost 15,000 lines of Norman-French verse of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin History of the Kings of Britain. It was formerly known as the Brut d'Engleterre or Roman des Rois d'Angleterre, though Wace's own name for it was the Geste des Bretons, or Deeds of the Britons.
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