Gloucester

Layamon's Brut

• attestation: Before and behind he laid them to the ground. Three and fifty there he slew and afterwards drew towards a steed, he leapt upon the steed, and quickly gan him ride, he rode to Gloucester, and the gates locked full fast. (Layamon's Brut)

  "before and behind he laid them to the ground."

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

  "Three and fifty there he slew and afterwards drew towards a steed, he leapt upon the steed, and quickly gan him ride, he rode to Gloucester, and the gates locked full fast."

• attestation: Aside he sent into a fair wood seventeen thousand good knights, well weaponed men, the wood to guard, so that they might fare thither, if to him were need. Then was of Gloucester an earl with the best, Moruith he was named, a man exceeding keen. (Layamon's Brut)

  "aside he sent into a fair wood seventeen thousand good knights, well weaponed men, the wood to guard, so that they might fare thither, if to him were need."

• attribution: Was of Gloucester an earl with the best, Moruith he was named, a man exceeding keen; to him he committed the wood and the host. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Then was of Gloucester an earl with the best, Moruith he was named, a man exceeding keen;"

• attestation: To him he committed the wood and the host. "And if it befalleth, as the living God will, that they be overcome, and begin to flee. (Layamon's Brut)

  "to him he committed the wood and the host."

• attestation: "And if it befalleth, as the living God will, that they be overcome, and begin to flee. (Layamon's Brut)

  ""And if it befalleth, as the living God will, that they be overcome, and begin to flee;"