Winchester

Layamon's Brut

• attestation: and he himself went as if he would go to his land, and turned right the way that into Winchester lay. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and he himself went as if he would go to his land, and turned right the way that into Winchester lay."

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

  "and proceeded to the inn, into Winchester, and slew their swains, and their chamber-servants, their cooks, and their boys, all they deprived of life-day."

• attestation: He made there reves, to rule the folk. And thence he gan proceed right to Winchester. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and he made there reves, to rule the folk."

• attestation: Thence he gan proceed right to Winchester; and there he caused to be worked halls and churches. (Layamon's Brut)

  "And thence he gan proceed right to Winchester;"

• attestation: There he caused to be worked halls and churches;--there it seemed to him most pleasant;--and afterwards he went to Ambresbury, to the burial-place of his dear friends, whom Hergest with knives had murdered there. He caused men anon to be inquired for, who could hew stone, and eke good wrights, who could work with axe, he thought to work there a work wondrously fair, that ever should last, the while men lived! (Layamon's Brut)

  "and there he caused to be worked halls and churches;--there it seemed to him most pleasant;--and afterwards he went to Ambresbury, to the burial-place of his dear friends, whom Hergest with knives had murdered there."

• attribution: I was at Winchester, with thine adversaries, where the king lieth sick, and sorrowful in heart. (Layamon's Brut)

  "I was at Winchester, with thine adversaries, where the king lieth sick, and sorrowful in heart."

• attestation: he took to him two companions, and forth he gan proceed, and went anon right into Winchester, as if it were a holy man—-the heathen devil! (Layamon's Brut)

  "he took to him two companions, and forth he gan proceed, and went anon right into Winchester, as if it were a holy man—-the heathen devil!"

• attestation: Were before him, without the burgh, all the burghers with piteous cries. So soon as they saw him, they said to him: "Uther, thy favour, now and evermore! (Layamon's Brut)

  "then were before him, without the burgh, all the burghers with piteous cries."

• attestation: Our king we have lost, woe is to us therefore. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Our king we have lost, woe is to us therefore."