Petreius

Layamon's Brut

• attribution: Then came there riding one that was a rich earl, named Petreius, a noble man of Rome, with six thousand warriors, to help the Romanish forces;. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Then came there riding one that was a rich earl, named Petreius, a noble man of Rome, with six thousand warriors, to help the Romanish forces;"

• attestation: With great strength they leapt to the Britons, and few there they captured, but many they slew. The Britons fled to the wood. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and with great strength they leapt to the Britons, and few there they captured, but many they slew."

• attestation: Was Petreius wrath, that his force was there the worse; and he with his host retreated from the wood. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Then was Petreius wrath, that his force was there the worse;"

• attestation: He with his host retreated from the wood; and the Britons followed them, and slew them behind. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and he with his host retreated from the wood;"

• attestation: Woe was to them born, that were in the way before them, for all they it trod down, with horses and with steeds. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Woe was to them born, that were in the way before them, for all they it trod down, with horses and with steeds;"

• attestation: So they came near, and Petreius they captured. Beof rode to him, and with arms him clasped, and drew him off his steed, and on earth him stretched. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and so they came near, and Petreius they captured."

• attestation: Beof rode to him, and with arms him clasped, and drew him off his steed, and on earth him stretched. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Beof rode to him, and with arms him clasped, and drew him off his steed, and on earth him stretched;"

• attestation: He knew beside him were his bold knights. The Britons down smote. (Layamon's Brut)

  "he knew beside him were his bold knights."

• attestation: and the spies forthright proceeded forth by night, until they came soon to the emperor of Rome, and told all their tale, how these four earls should march, and lead forth Petreius to the burgh of Paris;. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and the spies forthright proceeded forth by night, until they came soon to the emperor of Rome, and told all their tale, how these four earls should march, and lead forth Petreius to the burgh of Paris;"

• attestation: All they told the way that in to Paris lay, and where men might them intercept in a deep valley, and take from them Petreius the noble man, and the four earls conquer, and fast them bind. Luces heard this, the emperor of Rome, and he leapt to weapon as it were a lion. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and all they told the way that in to Paris lay, and where men might them intercept in a deep valley, and take from them Petreius the noble man, and the four earls conquer, and fast them bind."

• attribution: He called to the senators Bal, Catel, and Carnus,--these were all of royal birth, and these were all chosen,—-promptly to ride, and to liberate Petreius. (Layamon's Brut)

  "he called to the senators Bal, Catel, and Carnus,--these were all of royal birth, and these were all chosen,—-promptly to ride, and to liberate Petreius."