The Battle of Maldon: This took place in 991AD when the Vikings raided the Essex coast. This site contains a translation of the peom, pictures, and much background information. ... The Battle of Maldon (991AD) took place on the shores of the River Blackwater in Essex. There was a heroic stand by the Anglo-Saxons against...
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The Battle of Maldon ... That the earl would not brook cowardice, Loosed he from his hands his darling to fly, His Hawk to the wood, and to the battle strode. From that one could tell that the chieftain would never; Weaken in the warfare - when he his weapons seized.
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The Battle of Maldon took place on 10 August 991 near Maldon beside the River Blackwater in Essex, England, during the reign of Aethelred the Unready. Earl Byrhtnoth and his thegns led the English a...
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Translation of The Battle of Maldon by Jonathan A. Glenn ... Hyperlinks to annotations are added in-line in the text, in bolded brackets. See also my notes on The Battle of Maldon.
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J. A. Glenn's notes on the Battle of Maldon ... Composed soon after the battle (AD 991) and told from the retainers' point of view. ... The poem is aristocratic: "Maldon is of the same school as Beowulf and nearer to Beowulf in heroic art and social feeling than any other Old English poem"; and, again, "Maldon is even more...
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Generated automatically by Old English Aerobics ... OE Aerobics Anthology ... words clauses idioms notes;
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The Battle of Maldon marked a series of harrying raids and sporadic attacks that began that year and continued throughout the troubled reign of Æthelred the ...
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Verse Indeterminate Saxon...
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The ancient causeway linking Northey Island to the south bank of the Blackwater estuary just east of Maldon is considered by many to be the most likely site of the Battle of Maldon.
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The story of the Battle of Maldon ... The battle at Maldon in 991 would have received little attention had it not been the inspiration for the celebrated poem on the subject. The poem as a work of fiction has received a great deal of attention from scholars of Anglo-Saxon literature.
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