Aurelie

Layamon's Brut

• attestation: He was king here but twelve years, and then was the king dead—-hearken now through what chance. He had in his house a Peoht, fair knight and most brave. (Layamon's Brut)

  "but he was king here but twelve years, and then was the king dead—-hearken now through what chance."

• attestation: He had in his house a Peoht, fair knight and most brave. (Layamon's Brut)

  "He had in his house a Peoht, fair knight and most brave;"

• attribution: Now have the elders, the noblest in land, chosen Aurelie--his surname is Ambrosie--if they may through all things they will make him king. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Now have the elders, the noblest in land, chosen Aurelie--his surname is Ambrosie--if they may through all things they will make him king;"

• attestation: It is, Aurelie and Uther--now thou art thereof aware;--they shall come to-morrow, full truly, in this land at Totnes, I do thee well to wit, with seven hundred ships; and now they sail speedily in the sea. (Layamon's Brut)

  "it is, Aurelie and Uther--now thou art thereof aware;--they shall come to-morrow, full truly, in this land at Totnes, I do thee well to wit, with seven hundred ships;"

• attestation: Now they sail speedily in the sea. Thou hast much evil done to them, and now thou must the harm receive. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and now they sail speedily in the sea."

• attestation: Thou hast much evil done to them, and now thou must the harm receive. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Thou hast much evil done to them, and now thou must the harm receive;"

• attestation: They betoken kings that yet are to come, and their fight, and their adventure, and their fated folk! (Layamon's Brut)

  "They betoken kings that yet are to come, and their fight, and their adventure, and their fated folk!"

• attestation: Afterwards thou drewest upon thee foreign people, the Saxons to this land, therefore thou shalt be destroyed! (Layamon's Brut)

  "Afterwards thou drewest upon thee foreign people, the Saxons to this land, therefore thou shalt be destroyed!"

• attestation: Were the Britons filled with bliss, blithe in mood who ere were mournful. These tidings came to Vortiger the king, that Aurelie was chosen and raised to be king. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Then were the Britons filled with bliss, blithe in mood who ere were mournful."

• attestation: The Britons held husting with great wisdom. (Layamon's Brut)

  "The Britons held husting with great wisdom;"

• relationship: They took anon Aurelie, the elder brother, in the noble husting, and raised him to be king. Then were the Britons filled with bliss, blithe in mood who ere were mournful. (Layamon's Brut)

  "they took anon Aurelie, the elder brother, in the noble husting, and raised him to be king."

• attestation: These tidings came to Vortiger the king, that Aurelie was chosen and raised to be king. (Layamon's Brut)

  "These tidings came to Vortiger the king, that Aurelie was chosen and raised to be king."

• attestation: Aurelie marched forth, and led his host right north, with all his might, full a se'nnight. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Aurelie marched forth, and led his host right north, with all his might, full a se'nnight."

• attestation: Aurelie had all the land in his hand. There was the strong earl, named Aldolf, he was of Gloucester, of all knights skilfullest. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Then Aurelie had all the land in his hand."

• attestation: There in the land Aurehe made him his steward. Then had Aurelie, and Uther his brother, felled their foes, and were therefore the blither! (Layamon's Brut)

  "there in the land Aurehe made him his steward."

• relationship: Then had Aurelie, and Uther his brother, felled their foes, and were therefore the blither! (Layamon's Brut)

  "Then had Aurelie, and Uther his brother, felled their foes, and were therefore the blither!"

• attestation: He marched his host, and fled toward the Scots, and Aurelie the king went after him in haste. (Layamon's Brut)

  "He marched his host, and fled toward the Scots, and Aurelie the king went after him in haste."

• attestation: And Hengest thought that he would, with all his army, if men pursued him, flee into Scotland, so that he might thence with guile escape, if he might not for Aurelie remain in the land. (Layamon's Brut)

  "And Hengest thought that he would, with all his army, if men pursued him, flee into Scotland, so that he might thence with guile escape, if he might not for Aurelie remain in the land."

• attestation: Caused he his knights to be ever weaponed, day and night, as if they should go to battle; for ever he had care of the heathen folk. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Then caused he his knights to be ever weaponed, day and night, as if they should go to battle;"

• attestation: Aurelie had for companions thirty thousand riders, bold Britons, who made their threat. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Aurelie had for companions thirty thousand riders, bold Britons, who made their threat;"

• attestation: Eke he had Welsh, wondrously many. Then caused he his knights to be ever weaponed, day and night, as if they should go to battle. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and eke he had Welsh, wondrously many."

• attestation: Aurelie with his host marched quickly towards him. When Hengest heard that Aurelie was near, he took his army, and marched against him. (Layamon's Brut)

  "And Aurelie with his host marched quickly towards him."

• attestation: When Hengest heard that Aurelie was near, he took his army, and marched against him. (Layamon's Brut)

  "When Hengest heard that Aurelie was near, he took his army, and marched against him."

• attribution: When Aurelie was aware that Hengest would come there, he went into a field, well weaponed under shield. (Layamon's Brut)

  "When Aurelie was aware that Hengest would come there, he went into a field, well weaponed under shield;"

• attestation: In the burgh he went, safety to obtain. And the King Aurelie went after him anon, and called to his people with loud voice: "Run ever forth and forth! (Layamon's Brut)

  "in the burgh he went, safety to obtain."

• attribution: The King Aurelie went after him anon, and called to his people with loud voice: "Run ever forth and forth! Hengest is gone northwards! (Layamon's Brut)

  "And the King Aurelie went after him anon, and called to his people with loud voice: "Run ever forth and forth!"

• attestation: And now Aurelie the king caused a husting to be summoned, and caused trumpets to be blown, and his army to assemble--there was wondrous folk--and marched right to York, and inclosed Octa with his men there within. (Layamon's Brut)

  "And now Aurelie the king caused a husting to be summoned, and caused trumpets to be blown, and his army to assemble--there was wondrous folk--and marched right to York, and inclosed Octa with his men there within."

• attestation: Put off their clothes the careful knights, and proceeded out of the burgh, miserable thanes, twain and twain, twenty hundred! Aurelie beheld this, noblest of kings, strange it seemed to him of the naked knights. (Layamon's Brut)

  "put off their clothes the careful knights, and proceeded out of the burgh, miserable thanes, twain and twain, twenty hundred!"

• attribution: Aurelie beheld this, noblest of kings, strange it seemed to him of the naked knights. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Aurelie beheld this, noblest of kings, strange it seemed to him of the naked knights."

• attestation: The king was mild-hearted, and held him still; he beheld on the right hand, he beheld on the left hand, which of his wise men first would speak. (Layamon's Brut)

  "And the king was mild-hearted, and held him still;"

• attestation: He beheld on the right hand, he beheld on the left hand, which of his wise men first would speak. They all were still, and kept silence with voice. (Layamon's Brut)

  "he beheld on the right hand, he beheld on the left hand, which of his wise men first would speak."

• attestation: Now stands all this kingdom in thine own hand, give them a place, where it shall be agreeable to thee, and take of them hostages, such as thou wilt require. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Now stands all this kingdom in thine own hand, give them a place, where it shall be agreeable to thee, and take of them hostages, such as thou wilt require;"

• attestation: Let them be well held in iron bonds; the hostages be found meat and clothes, be found all that to them shall belief. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and let them be well held in iron bonds;"

• attestation: The hostages be found meat and clothes, be found all that to them shall belief; and then mightest thou well hold this people in thy land, and let them till the land, and live by their tilth. (Layamon's Brut)

  "the hostages be found meat and clothes, be found all that to them shall belief;"

• attestation: Mightest thou well hold this people in thy land, and let them till the land, and live by their tilth. And if it subsequently shall befall, soon thereafter, that they fail in hand to hold troth, and weaken in work, and withstand thee, now I decree to thee the doom, what thou mayest then do. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and then mightest thou well hold this people in thy land, and let them till the land, and live by their tilth."

• attestation: If it subsequently shall befall, soon thereafter, that they fail in hand to hold troth, and weaken in work, and withstand thee, now I decree to thee the doom, what thou mayest then do. Cause men to ride to them exceeding quickly, and cause them all to be destroyed, slain and eke up hung. (Layamon's Brut)

  "And if it subsequently shall befall, soon thereafter, that they fail in hand to hold troth, and weaken in work, and withstand thee, now I decree to thee the doom, what thou mayest then do."

• attestation: Some they went right north, and some they went forth south; some they went right east, and some they went right west, some they went anon, so that they came to Alaban, that is a fair well in Welsh land. (Layamon's Brut)

  "some they went right north, and some they went forth south;"

• attribution: He was a man exceeding wise in the worlds-realm; with the king he was, over the weald. (Layamon's Brut)

  "he was a man exceeding wise in the worlds-realm;"

• attestation: With the king he was, over the weald. And thus Tremoriun, God's servant, spake there with the king, of a good thing: "Listen now to me, Aurelie, what I will make known to thee, and I will say to thee the best of all counsel, if thou wilt it approve, eft it will like to thee. (Layamon's Brut)

  "with the king he was, over the weald."

• attestation: Thus Tremoriun, God's servant, spake there with the king, of a good thing: "Listen now to me, Aurelie, what I will make known to thee, and I will say to thee the best of all counsel, if thou wilt it approve, eft it will like to thee. We have a prophet, who is Merlin named. (Layamon's Brut)

  "And thus Tremoriun, God's servant, spake there with the king, of a good thing: "Listen now to me, Aurelie, what I will make known to thee, and I will say to thee the best of all counsel, if thou wilt it approve, eft it will like to thee."

• attestation: If any man might him find, upon this weald, and bring him to thee, through any kind of thing, and if thou his will wouldest perform, he would say to thee best of all counsel, how thou mightest this work make strong and stark, that ever might last, the while that men lived. (Layamon's Brut)

  "if any man might him find, upon this weald, and bring him to thee, through any kind of thing,"

• attestation: The messengers gan to ride wide and far. (Layamon's Brut)

  "The messengers gan to ride wide and far;"

• attestation: He gan ask him anon with his fair words, that he should cause him to understand of the world's course, and of all the years that were to come, for it were to him greatly in will, that he thereof knew. Merlin then answered, and to the king said thus: "O Aurelie, the king, thou askest me a strange thing, look that thou no more such thing inquire. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and he gan ask him anon with his fair words, that he should cause him to understand of the world's course, and of all the years that were to come, for it were to him greatly in will, that he thereof knew."

• attestation: For my spirit truly is wrathful, that is in my breast; and if I among men would make boast, with gladness, with game, with goodly words, my spirit would wrath himself, and become still, and deprive me of my sense, and my wise words fore-close, then were I dumb of every sentence. (Layamon's Brut)

  "For my spirit truly is wrathful, that is in my breast;"

• attestation: Merlin then answered, and to the king said thus: "O Aurelie, the king, thou askest me a strange thing, look that thou no more such thing inquire. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Merlin then answered, and to the king said thus: "O Aurelie, the king, thou askest me a strange thing, look that thou no more such thing inquire."

• attestation: If I among men would make boast, with gladness, with game, with goodly words, my spirit would wrath himself, and become still, and deprive me of my sense, and my wise words fore-close, then were I dumb of every sentence. But leave all such things," quoth Merlin to the king, "for whensoever need shall come to ever any people, and man will beseech me with mildness, and I may with my will dwell still, then may I say, how it afterwards shall happen. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and if I among men would make boast, with gladness, with game, with goodly words, my spirit would wrath himself, and become still, and deprive me of my sense, and my wise words fore-close, then were I dumb of every sentence."

• attestation: I will counsel thee of thy nearest need, and say to thee right here what thou hast in heart. (Layamon's Brut)

  "But I will counsel thee of thy nearest need, and say to thee right here what thou hast in heart."

• attestation: A plain is by Ambresbury, that is broad, and exceeding pleasant, there was thy kindred deprived of life with knives, there was many bold Briton betrayed to the death. (Layamon's Brut)

  "A plain is by Ambresbury, that is broad, and exceeding pleasant, there was thy kindred deprived of life with knives, there was many bold Briton betrayed to the death;"

• attestation: Thinkest to greet the place with worship, and with surprising works to honour the dead, that there shall ever stand, to the world's end. But thou hast never any man, that knows aught thereon, who can make a work that never will fail. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and thinkest to greet the place with worship, and with surprising works to honour the dead, that there shall ever stand, to the world's end."

• attestation: Thou hast never any man, that knows aught thereon, who can make a work that never will fail. (Layamon's Brut)

  "But thou hast never any man, that knows aught thereon, who can make a work that never will fail."

• attestation: Aurche the king caused a husting to be summoned from all the lands that stood in his hand. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Aurche the king caused a husting to be summoned from all the lands that stood in his hand;"

• attribution: That is the marvellous thing, it is named the Giant's Ring, to each work unlike--it came from Africa. (Layamon's Brut)

  "That is the marvellous thing, it is named the Giant's Ring, to each work unlike--it came from Africa."

• attestation: Pitch your tents over all these fields, here we shall rest for the space of three days. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Pitch your tents over all these fields, here we shall rest for the space of three days;"

• attestation: On the fourth day we shall march hence toward the hill, where our will is. But we shall first refresh us, and assemble our warriors, make ready our weapons, for well they behove us (we shall need them). (Layamon's Brut)

  "on the fourth day we shall march hence toward the hill, where our will is."

• attestation: Spill their blood out of their bellies—-and so men shall teach them (they shall be taught) to seek stones! And afterwards I will go into Britain, and say to the King Aurelie, that my stones I will defend, and unless the king be still, and do my will, I will in his land with fight withstand, make him waste paths, and wildernesses many. (Layamon's Brut)

  "spill their blood out of their bellies—-and so men shall teach them (they shall be taught) to seek stones!"

• attestation: The king was in breast wondrously blithe. (Layamon's Brut)

  "The king was in breast wondrously blithe;"

• attestation: On the fourth day then gan they to march, and proceeded to the hill, all well weaponed, where the marvellous work stood, great and most strong! (Layamon's Brut)

  "On the fourth day then gan they to march, and proceeded to the hill, all well weaponed, where the marvellous work stood, great and most strong!"

• attestation: Knights went upward, knights went downward, knights went all about, and earnestly beheld it, they saw there on the land the marvellous work stand. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Knights went upward, knights went downward, knights went all about, and earnestly beheld it, they saw there on the land the marvellous work stand."

• attribution: Caused a husting to be summoned, so wide as was all his land, that all his merry folk so very joyous should come to Ambresbury, all his people, at Whitsunday, and the king would be there, and honour the place. Thither came Aurelie the king, and all his folk with him, on Whitsunday he there made a feast, as I will thee tell in this book-story. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and caused a husting to be summoned, so wide as was all his land, that all his merry folk so very joyous should come to Ambresbury, all his people, at Whitsunday, and the king would be there, and honour the place."

• attestation: He durst not long dwell there, for Aurelie and for Uther. (Layamon's Brut)

  "But he durst not long dwell there, for Aurelie and for Uther;"

• attestation: Eke I heard say, where I voyaged in the sea, that the King Aurelie is become sick, and lieth in Winchester, in bed full fast. Thou mayest believe me enow, for this is verily sooth. (Layamon's Brut)

  "And eke I heard say, where I voyaged in the sea, that the King Aurelie is become sick, and lieth in Winchester, in bed full fast."

• attestation: He had blackened his body, as if smutted with coal! He kneeled to the king, his speech was full mild: "Hail be thou, Aurelie, noblest of all kings! (Layamon's Brut)

  "he had blackened his body, as if smutted with coal!"

• attribution: He kneeled to the king, his speech was full mild: "Hail be thou, Aurelie, noblest of all kings! (Layamon's Brut)

  "He kneeled to the king, his speech was full mild: "Hail be thou, Aurelie, noblest of all kings!"

• attestation: In this worlds-realm, much is the sorrow that is come to the land! Where art thou, Uther? (Layamon's Brut)

  "in this worlds-realm, much is the sorrow that is come to the land!"

• attestation: Set before me here, and I will say to thee of sorrows enow. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Set before me here, and I will say to thee of sorrows enow."

• attribution: Dead is Aurelie, noblest of kings, so is the other, Constance, thy brother, whom Vortiger betrayed with his treachery. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Dead is Aurelie, noblest of kings, so is the other, Constance, thy brother, whom Vortiger betrayed with his treachery."

• attestation: Aurelie engaged in combat involving Vortiger (Layamon's Brut)

  "Now hath Vortiger's kin killed Aurelie;"

• attestation: Now art thou alone of thy noble kindred. But hope not thou for counsel of them that he dead, but think of thyself--prosperity shall be given to thee. (Layamon's Brut)

  "now art thou alone of thy noble kindred."

• attestation: Hope not thou for counsel of them that he dead, but think of thyself--prosperity shall be given to thee;--for seldom he faileth, who to himself thinketh. (Layamon's Brut)

  "But hope not thou for counsel of them that he dead, but think of thyself--prosperity shall be given to thee;--for seldom he faileth, who to himself thinketh."

• attestation: Thou shalt become good king, and lord of men. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Thou shalt become good king, and lord of men."

• relationship: Said Gillomar the king a thing very strange:--"Here cometh Uther, Aurelie's brother; he will ask my peace, and not fight with me. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Then said Gillomar the king a thing very strange:--"Here cometh Uther, Aurelie's brother;"

• attestation: He will ask my peace, and not fight with me. The foremost are his swains. (Layamon's Brut)

  "he will ask my peace, and not fight with me."

• attestation: Ye need never reek, though ye slay the wretches! For if Uther, Constantine's son, will here become my man, and give to Pascent his father's realm, I will him grant peace, and let him live, and in fair bonds lead him to my land. (Layamon's Brut)

  "ye need never reek, though ye slay the wretches!"

• attestation: In a broad way he gan meet three knights and their swains, who came toward him. Anon as they met him, fair they him greeted: "Hail be thou, Uther. (Layamon's Brut)

  "In a broad way he gan meet three knights and their swains, who came toward him."

• attestation: These territories are thine own. Dead is Aurelie, noblest of kings. (Layamon's Brut)

  "these territories are thine own."

• attribution: Dead is Aurelie, noblest of kings. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Dead is Aurelie, noblest of kings;"

• attestation: He hath set to thee in hand all his regal land; he bade thee be in prosperity, and think of his soul. (Layamon's Brut)

  "he hath set to thee in hand all his regal land;"

• relationship: Aurelie gave or bestowed something to Octa (Layamon's Brut)

  "This word heard Octa, where he dwelt northward, and Ebissa his wed-brother, and Ossa the other, that Aurelie sent thither, and set them there in his peace, and gave them in hand sixty hides of land."

• attestation: Aurelie gave or bestowed something to Hengest (Layamon's Brut)

  "Soon was the word reported and over the land known, that Octa, Hengest's son, was become heathen, and all these same men to whom Aurelie had granted peace."

• attestation: For dead was he Uther Pendragon, as Aurelie was ere, and Uther Pendragon had no other son, that might after his days hold by law the Britons, maintain with worship, and rule this kingdom. For yet were in this land the Saxons settled. (Layamon's Brut)

  "for dead was he Uther Pendragon, as Aurelie was ere, and Uther Pendragon had no other son, that might after his days hold by law the Britons, maintain with worship, and rule this kingdom."

• attestation: For yet were in this land the Saxons settled; Colgrim the keen, and many thousands of his companions, that oft made to our Britons evil injuries. (Layamon's Brut)

  "For yet were in this land the Saxons settled;"

• relationship: Aurelie engaged in combat involving Uther (Layamon's Brut)

  "For they slew Uther Pendragon, who was son of Constance, so they did the other, Aurelie, his brother, therefore they were in land loathest of all folk."