Battle of Maldon
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The Battle of Maldon took place on 10 or 11 August 991 AD near Maldon beside the River Blackwater in Essex, England, during the reign of Æthelred the Unready. Earl Byrhtnoth and his thegns led the Eng
Alfred Pearseː Battle of Maldon in 991 (Hutchinson's Story of the British Nation, 1922)
A modern statue of Byrhtnoth in Maldon, by John Doubleday
The battlefield from the air. Earl Byrhtnoth's forces were drawn up on the shore (top); Olaf's men had to cross the causeway from Northey Island (left).
Battle of Maldon plains
The Battle of Maldon
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The Battle of Maldon is the name given to an Old English poem of uncertain date celebrating the real Battle of Maldon of 991, at which an Anglo-Saxon army failed to repulse a Viking raid. Only 325 lin
Battle of Maldon
…the battle, embellished with many speeches attributed to the warriors and with other details, is related in an Old English poem which is usually named The Battle of Maldon. One manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states that a certain Olaf, possibly the Norwegian Olaf Tryggvason, led the Viking forces, these estimated…
Text on a filing cabinet at the Dictionary of Old English office, University of Toronto: "Thought must be the harder, heart be the keener, mind must be the greater, while our strength lessens." (tr. Jonathan A. Glenn) In the poem, these words are spoken by Byrhtwold.
Byrhtnoth's Plaque near Northey Island, in Maldon, Essex
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