Within that context, one of the most perceptive of the collection is, in my considered opinion, the 1902 version by La Motte Iddings. His remoulding of her diction, and the battering his breakers gave her decorous rhythms, is examined elsewhere. An apt point here is made by the Swedish poet Gunnar D.Hansson, in the preface to his 1991 collection of Anglo-Saxon verse interpretations, Slaget vid Maldon . I understand this to imply that the pedant's innate insecurity, fear of obloquy and tunnel vision blind him to the wood for the trees. It has to be added that no matter how daft the scholarship, nor how vile the verse, the quality of the original is so resilient that, like the coracle of its own creation, it surmounts whatever pounding it sustains.
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