Constantin

Layamon's Brut

• attestation: When the Earl Constantin saw all this folk come to him, then he was so blithe as he was never before in life. (Layamon's Brut)

  "When the Earl Constantin saw all this folk come to him, then he was so blithe as he was never before in life."

• attestation: At Totnes Constantin the fair and all his host came ashore. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Translated by Eugene Mason

At Totnes Constantin the fair and all his host came ashore;"

• attestation: Thither came the bold man--well was he brave!--and with him two thousand knights such as no king possessed. Forth they gan march into London, and sent after knights over all the kingdom, and every brave man, that speedily he should come anon. (Layamon's Brut)

  "thither came the bold man--well was he brave!--and with him two thousand knights such as no king possessed."

• attestation: When they heard of this word, that Constantin was in the land, then came out of the mountains many thousand men. (Layamon's Brut)

  "When they heard of this word, that Constantin was in the land, then came out of the mountains many thousand men;"

• attestation: They leapt out of the wood as if it were deer. Many hundred thousand marched toward London, by street and by weald all it forth pressed. (Layamon's Brut)

  "they leapt out of the wood as if it were deer."

• attestation: The brave women put on them men's clothes, and they forth journeyed toward the army. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and the brave women put on them men's clothes, and they forth journeyed toward the army."

• attestation: They proceeded so long forward that they came in an orchard. (Layamon's Brut)

  "They proceeded so long forward that they came in an orchard."

• relationship: He fared with the king, and with all his thanes by no other wise but as it were his brother. Then became he so potent, to all his companions unlike. (Layamon's Brut)

  "he fared with the king, and with all his thanes by no other wise but as it were his brother."

• attestation: Became he so potent, to all his companions unlike; then thought he to betray Constantin the powerful. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Then became he so potent, to all his companions unlike;"

• attestation: Thought he to betray Constantin the powerful. He came before the king, and fell on his knees, and thus lied the traitor before his lord: "Lord king, come forthright, and speak with Cadal thy knight, and I will thee tell of strange speeches, such as thou never ere on earth heardest. (Layamon's Brut)

  "then thought he to betray Constantin the powerful."

• attestation: He came before the king, and fell on his knees, and thus lied the traitor before his lord: "Lord king, come forthright, and speak with Cadal thy knight, and I will thee tell of strange speeches, such as thou never ere on earth heardest." Then arose the king Constantin, and went forth out with him. (Layamon's Brut)

  "He came before the king, and fell on his knees, and thus lied the traitor before his lord: "Lord king, come forthright, and speak with Cadal thy knight, and I will thee tell of strange speeches, such as thou never ere on earth heardest."

Then arose the king Constantin, and went forth out with him."

• attestation: that Constantin's knights knew it not! (Layamon's Brut)

  "that Constantin's knights knew it not!"

• attestation: Constantin engaged in combat (Layamon's Brut)

  "King, king, be-see thee (see to thyself), sorrow is to thee given of Constantine's kin!--his son thou killedest;"

• attribution: The first was Belin, who was a British king. (Layamon's Brut)

  "The first was Belin, who was a British king;"

• attestation: The other was Constantine, who was king in Britain; thou shalt be the third, that Rome shalt have. (Layamon's Brut)

  "the other was Constantine, who was king in Britain;"

• attestation: The wind stood to them at will, weather best of all; they had all that to them was need. (Layamon's Brut)

  "the wind stood to them at will, weather best of all;"

• attestation: Forth they gan to voyage exceeding quickly. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Forth they gan to voyage exceeding quickly;"

Vita Merlini

• attestation: Merlinus sees that Constantinus has died and his nephew Conanus has killed his uncle and seized the crown (Vita Merlini > Merlin at War and in Madness)

  "Sic equidem video: nam Constantinus obivit, Ipsiusque nepos scelerata sorte Conanus Perpatrui jugulum, sumpto diademate, rex est."