Lazamon's Brut Between Old English Heroic Poetry and Middle English Romance : A Study of the Lexical Fields 'Hero', 'Warrior' and 'Knight'

The two manuscripts of the early Middle English chronicle Lazamon's Brut, British Library MS Cotton Caligula A ix and British Library MS Cotton Otho C xiii, display marked differences in their use of vocabulary. Whereas the vocabulary of the Caligula manuscript is consciously archaising, the lexicon of the Otho text is more modern. This study of the lexical fields 'hero', 'warrior' and 'knight' in...