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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
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.
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.
As edited in the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, the most famous lines from The Battle of Maldon read:
 
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