Rhyming Chroniclers

Rhyming Chroniclers, a series of writers who flourished in England in the 13th century, and related histories of the country in rhyme, in which the fabulous occupies a conspicuous place, among which Layamon's Brut (1205) takes the lead. One of them was John Hardyng (1378–1465).

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "Rhyming Chroniclers". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.