La?amon’s «Brut» between Old English Heroic Poetry and Middle English Romance

Highlights the creative use of Old English models in both manuscripts and disprove the hypothesised close link between the Otho Brut and the romance genre. This study of the lexical fields 'hero', 'warrior' and 'knight' in the Brut chronicle investigates the backward orientation of the Caligula Brut towards Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry.