Geoffrey Gaimar
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Geoffrey Gaimar (flourished 1140?), was an Anglo-Norman chronicler. Gaimar's most significant contribution to medieval literature and history is as a translator from Old English to Anglo-Norman. His L'Estoire des Engles translates extensive portions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as well as using Latin and French sources. It is an octosyllabic rhymed chronicle written between 1136 and 1137 for Constance, wife of Ralph FitzGilbert, a Lincolnshire landowner.
He claims to have written a version of the Brut story, probably a translation of the chronicle of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae into Old French verse. Yet the so-called L'Estoire des Bretons does not survive, and his indebtedness to Geoffrey of Monmouth appears only in Gaimar's knowledge of Galfridian legendary history.
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- Anglo-Norman Literature and its Background, Legge, Oxford 1963
- A Companion to the Anglo-Norman World, Woodbridge, 2003 ISBN 0-85115-673-8
This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.es:Geoffrey Gaimar fr:Geoffroy Gaimar
