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Roman de Brut or Brut is a verse literary history of England of 14,866 lines written in Anglo-Norman by Wace.

It is based on Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae, and probably begun around 1150 and finished in 1155. It was intended for a Norman audience interested in the legends and history of the new territories of the Anglo-Norman realm, covering the story of King Arthur and taking the history of Britain back to the mythical Brutus of Troy.

The Brut was the most popular of Wace's works and survives in more than 30 manuscripts or fragments. It was used by Layamon as the basis for his Brut.

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