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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. Geoffrey also used other sources for his text, and in particular it stands as the first witness to the legend of
Havelok the Dane.
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 doesn't survive, and his indebtedness to Geoffrey of Monmouth appears only in Gaimar's knowledge of Galfridian legendary history.
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