Battle of Maldon
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The Battle of Maldon is an Old English poem describing a Danish incursion into Essex from the perspective of the Anglo-Saxon force vainly attempting to defeat it.
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- Hige sceal þē heardra, heorte þē cēnre,
mōd sceal þē māre, þē ūre mægen lytlað.- Thought shall be harder, heart the keener,
Mood the more, as our might lessens. - Line 312; translation from Michael Alexander The Earliest English Poems (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975) p. 112.
- Thought shall be harder, heart the keener,
[edit] External links
- Translation by Mary K. Savelli.
- James Grout: The Battle of Maldon, part of the Encyclopædia Romana
