The Battle of Maldon: Together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth

The Battle of Maldon: Together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth presents J.R.R. Tolkien's translation of "The Battle of Maldon", with Tolkien's poem "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son", released in early 2023. It is edited and features commentary by scholar Peter Grybauskas.
==Contents==
* Foreword
* Acknowledgements
* Introduction
* Part One: The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son
** (I) Beorhtnoth's Death
** (II) The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son
** (III) Ofermod
** Notes
* Part Two: The Battle of Maldon
** Introductory Note
** The Battle of Maldon, translated by J.R.R. Tolkien
** Notes
* Part Three: The Tradition of Versification in Old English
* Appendices
** I 'Old English Prosody'
** II 'The Tradition of Versification in Old English' [continued]
** III Alliteration on 'g' in The Battle of Maldon
** IV An Early Homecoming in Rhyme
** V Noteworthy Developments in the Drafts of The Homecoming
** VI Proofing the Pudding: The Homecoming in Dialogue with the Legendarium
==Publisher's summary==
"The Battle of Maldon" is a 10th century Old English poem concerning a battle in which Vikings prevailed in a raid against Anglo-Saxons, near modern-day Maldon, England. In the 1930s, it was found that the Bodleian Library possessed an original text of the poem.https://web.archive.org/web/20090930182839/http://faculty.uca.edu/jona/texts/maldon.htm"The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth" is a story by Tolkien set following the Battle of Maldon, concerning Byrhtnoth, an Anglo-Saxon slain in it. The poem has previously been published in The Tolkien Reader anthology (1966), in its own booklet (1991), and Tolkien's Tree and Leaf collection (1975; 2001).
Following the translation and poem, Grybauskas writes concerning the history of Old English versification.
==External links==
*Official page
*Amazon.com
*"Tolkien, The Battle of Maldon, and the Northern Theory of Courage" by Mary R. Bowman, in Tolkien Studies
== References ==
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