The Battle of Maldon together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth and 'The Tradition of Versification in Old English'
Peter Grybauskas, Bill Sanderson · 2023 · book
First ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war, and which features unpublished and never-before-seen texts and drafts. In 991 AD, vikings attacked an Anglo-Saxon defence-force led by their duke, Beorhtnoth, resulting in brutal fighting along the banks of the river Blackwater, near Maldon in Essex. The attack is widely considered one of the defining conflicts of tenth-centu…
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208
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2023
