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1	Layamon's Brut and the March of Wales: Merlin, his Prophecies, and the Lex Marchia Helbert, Daniel Glynn 18 May 2011 (has links) This study explores Layamon's engenderment of cultural unification for the explicit purposes of an Anglo-Welsh cultural resistance to the Norman overlords in the March of Wales. In essence, I examine some of the most important cultural signifiers in medieval English and Welsh culture and the methods by which the poet adapts and grafts them together to form a culturally amalgamated text—neither explicitly English nor Welsh but yet simultaneously both - and the political implications of this amalgamation. Though Laymon's methodology emanates from multiple aspects of the text, I have concentrated here on what I feel are the most explicit manifestations of this theme: Merlin, his prophecies, and the Law of the March. / Master of Arts Prophecy British History Layamon Merlin Norman Conquest "March of Wales" March Law Middle Ages Lex Marchia cultural unification Middle Welsh medieval historiography Layamon Lazamon Lawman Middle English revolution