The Battle of Maldon is a fragment of an Old English poem that portraits the Battle of Maldon, fought between Anglo-Saxons and Vikings in 991 at Maldon, England. The incomplete epic is missing the beginning and end. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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| 0991/08/10 | Aetheric of Maldon | East Saxon Warrior | Noble comrade, Aetheric, presses forward to advance the fight against the invading Vikings, splitting the enemy's shields. | Northey Island | Maldon | ||
| 1000/00/00 | "The Battle of Maldon" is written sometime between the battle and the Norman invasion of England in 1066. | ||||||
| 1726/00/00 | Thomas Hearne publishes a transcription of the Old English poem "The Battle of Maldon". | ||||||
| 1731/10/23 | The only known manuscript of "The Battle of Maldon" is destroyed in a fire at Ashburnham House in Westminster, England. | Little Deans Yard Ashburnham House | Westminster School, Little Deans Yard | ||||
| 1935/00/00 | A transcription of "The Battle of Maldon" published by Thomas Hearne is found at Bodleian Library in Oxford, England. | Bodleian Library | Oxford | ||||
| 1937/00/00 | J R R Tolkien | Translator | Anglo-Saxon scholar J R R Tolkien writes a transcription of the Old English poem "The Battle of Maldon". It will be included in the Tolkien Reader in 1966. |
| Particulars for The Battle of Maldon (poem): | |||
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| Cultural Affiliation | Anglo-Saxon | Germanic tribes - primarily Angles, Saxons and Jutes - who migrated to Great Britain from mainland Europe | |
| Narrative Arts | Factual | concerned with what is actually true rather than interpretations of or reactions to it | |
| Narrative Arts | Metrical,Verse | relating to or composed in poetic meter | |
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Language | Old English Language | earliest form of written English, end c 1150 | |
| Art Type | Poem | writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is typically rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme and stanzaic structure. | |
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| Original Language: | English | ||
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