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Maldon is the only substantial late Old English heroic poem to survive and provides unique testimony to the poetics of its period: close re-analysis of it shows it to be a striking mix of old and new, combining features found in much earlier verse with others only otherwise attested in Middle English alliterative poetry.

The Battle of Maldon

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    Publisher: Liverpool University Press
    Publication Date: 9/28/2024
    ISBN13: 9781835538067, 978-1835538067
    ISBN10: 1835538061

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    Maldon is the only substantial late Old English heroic poem to survive and provides unique testimony to the poetics of its period: close re-analysis of it shows it to be a striking mix of old and new, combining features found in much earlier verse with others only otherwise attested in Middle English alliterative poetry.

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