Layamon (, using the archaic letter yogh), or Lawman,On the spellings of his name, cf. the http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Medieval_Studies/lawman_conference/program.html program of The Fifth International Conference on Laamon's Brut at Brown University (retrieved October 21, 2006): "BL MS Cotton Caligula A.ix spells it "Laamon" (the third letter is called a "yogh"). BL MS Cotton Otho C.xiii spelled it "Laweman" and "Loweman." Print-era editors and cataloguers have spelled it "Layamon" or "Lawman."