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- 260 __ |a London : |b HarperCollinsPublishers, |c 2023.
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- 020 __ |a 9780008465827: |c CNY186.00
- 035 __ |a (BOKR)9780008465827
- 040 __ |a BOKR |b eng |c BOKR |e rda
- 100 1_ |a Tolkien, J. R. R. |q (John Ronald Reuel), |d 1892-1973, |e author.
- 245 14 |a The Battle of Maldon : |b together with The homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's son and "The tradition of versification in Old English" / |c J.R.R. Tolkien ; edited by Peter Grybauskas.
- 300 __ |a xx, 188 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 23 cm
- 336 __ |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent
- 337 __ |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia
- 338 __ |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references.
- 520 __ |a In 991 AD, vikings attacked an Anglo-Saxon defence-force led by their duke, Beorhtnoth, resulting in brutal fighting along the banks of the river Blackwater, near Maldon in Essex. The attack is widely considered one of the defining conflicts of tenth-century England, due to it being immortalised in the poem, The Battle of Maldon. Written shortly after the battle, the poem now survives only as a 325-line fragment, but its value to today is incalculable, not just as an heroic tale but in vividly expressing the lost language of our ancestors and celebrating ideals of loyalty and friendship. J.R.R. Tolkien considered The Battle of Maldon 'the last surviving fragment of ancient English heroic minstrelsy'. It would inspire him to compose, during the 1930s, his own dramatic verse-dialogue, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, which imagines the aftermath of the great battle when two of Beorhtnoth's retainers come to retrieve their duke's body. Leading Tolkien scholar, Peter Grybauskas, presents for the very first time J.R.R. Tolkien's own prose translation of The Battle of Maldon together with the definitive treatment of The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth and its accompanying essays; also included and never before published is Tolkien's bravura lecture, 'The Tradition of Versification in Old English', a wide-ranging essay on the nature of poetic tradition. Illuminated with insightful notes and commentary, he has produced a definitive critical edition of these works, and argues compellingly that, Beowulf excepted, The Battle of Maldon may well have been 'the Old English poem that most influenced Tolkien's fiction', most dramatically within the pages of The Lord of the Rings.[Bokinfo]
- 600 10 |a Tolkien, J. R. R. |q (John Ronald Reuel), |d 1892-1973 |x Criticism and interpretation.
- 650 _0 |a Fairy tales |x History and criticism.
- 650 _0 |a War poetry, English (Old) |x History and criticism.
- 650 _0 |a Maldon, Battle of, England, 991 |v Poetry.
- 700 1_ |a Grybauskas, Peter, |e editor.