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The battle of Maldon (1)
Together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
J.R.R. Tolkien
Editore: HarperCollins Canada
Anno: 2023
Lingua: Inglese
Rilegatura: Rigida
Pagine: 208 Pagine
Isbn 13: 9780008465827
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-century England, due to it being immortalised in the poem, The battle of Maldon.
Written shortly after the battle, the poem now survives only as a 325-line fragment, but its value to today is incalculable, not just as an heroic tale but in vividly expressing the lost language of our ancestors and celebrating ideals of loyalty and friendship.
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