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Maldon

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Maldon [ˈmɔːldən]
n
(Placename) a market town in SE England, in Essex; scene of a battle (991) between the East Saxons and the victorious Danes, celebrated in The Battle of Maldon, an Old English poem. Pop.: 15 841 (1991)
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Noun1.Maldon - a battle in which the Danes defeated the Saxons in 991Maldon - a battle in which the Danes defeated the Saxons in 991; celebrated in an old English poem
Battle of Maldon
England - a division of the United Kingdom
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I could wish it done as soon as it can be done, Wickfield,' said Doctor Strong, 'for Jack Maldon is needy, and idle; and of those two bad things, worse things sometimes come.
David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context
Most of the entries in the 'Chronicle' are bare and brief, but sometimes, especially in the accounts of Alfred's own splendid exploits, a writer is roused to spirited narrative, occasionally in verse; and in the tenth century two great battles against invading Northmen, at Brunanburh and Maldon, produced the only important extant pieces of Anglo-Saxon poetry which certainly belong to the West Saxon period.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
 
 
 
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