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Battle of Maldon

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Noun1.Battle of Maldon - a battle in which the Danes defeated the Saxons in 991; celebrated in an old English poem
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England - a division of the United Kingdom
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Tolkien's "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son" reads as though Tolkien was imagining himself channelling the missing lines of the fragmentary "The Battle of Maldon.
The theory and practice of alliterative verse in the work of J.R.R. ... by Hall, Mark F. / Mythlore
There are some puzzling formulations, such as the claim that Old English dialects were more distinct than present-day ones and that the rhythmical structure of a passage from The Battle of Maldon is like that of "Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater.
The Language of Old and Middle English Poetry by Fulk, R.D. / Renaissance Quarterly
As edited in the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, the most famous lines from The Battle of Maldon read:
"The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son": Tolkien as a modern ... by Tompkins, J. Case / Mythlore
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