Layamon

Ax for ask and kag for keg were the primitive and legitimate forms, which we trace as far as the time of Layamon.

So far, however, as Layamon is concerned, we can only contemplate with wonder an age of which he was considered an ornament.

When one reads Layamon the happier question is, "What will come after this?"

Layamon laid these works before him and turned the leaves; lovingly he beheld them.