This injects the evening with a disarming amount of charm that allows him the freedom he needs to indulge us with some of his more out-there musings, accomplishing the near-impossible feat of making a conversation about the 991
Battle of Maldon seem not only interesting but genuinely funny.
Tolkien traces this theme in Anglo-Saxon poetry, as well: in his critical pastiche "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son" (1953), he discusses both the king Beowulf and the earl Beorhtnoth of The
Battle of Maldon as Germanic chieftains who succumbed to the allurements of personal glory and by their ofermod fell in battle, leaving their people defenseless against their enemies, whether dragons or Danes.
She draws connections between his novels and well-known works of medieval literature, such as those by Chretien de Troyes, King Horn, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Sir Thomas MaloryAEs Le Mort Darthur, as well as The
Battle of Maldon and Beowulf.
Other explorations into the past can take you to the remote seventh century St Peter's Chapel; to the site of the
Battle of Maldon, which took place between the Saxons and Vikings in the year 991; to Napoleonic era defensive sea fortresses; and to Cressing Temple Barns -- former home to the infamous Knights Templar.
In detail, Chapter 2 describes 'Conceptual Metaphors' and discusses Soul and Body II, and The Wanderer, and The Seafarer; Chapter 3 describes 'Conceptual Blending' and discusses The Dream of the Rood, Riddle 43, and The
Battle of Maldon; Chapter 4 describes 'Text World Theory' and discusses Beowulf, Genesis B and Wulf and Eadwacer; Chapter 5 describes 'Cognitive Cultural Studies' and discusses, again, The Dream of the Rood and Beowulf, and Elene.
ose characteristics are deeply rooted and are at the heart of an epic Anglo-Saxon poem recounting the
Battle of Maldon in 991.
Appendixes include a brief chronicle of the previous
Battle of Maldon and two additional accounts of the death of King Brian.
The Anglo-Saxon fragment The
Battle of Maldon, concerning a minor skirmish with the Vikings fought in AD 991 on the coast of Essex, makes personal loyalty the key quality of the warrior elite even in hopeless circumstances.
(108) But Stallworthy's interest in earlier war poetry is genuine: in Singing School he relates that his enthusiasm for Old English was kindled by "a gnomelike New Zealander and a friend of my father" Jack Bennett (149), "the most gentle and peaceable of men who, by a strange irony, was required to introduce his freshmen not only to 'The
Battle of Maldon' and Beowulf but also to another martial epic, Virgil's Aeneid" (151).
Janet Bately compiles and analyses a range of words relating to courage in 'Bravery and the Vocabulary of Bravery in Beowulf and the
Battle of Maldon', finding that these words appear most often in the context of expectations of bravery or the statement of ideals, not in contexts of actual bravery.
Tolkien's "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son," (1) commmentary on The
Battle of Maldon has focused on one word, sometimes almost to the exclusion of the rest of the poem.
After the
battle of Maldon in 991 they had a well-established stronghold for two decades, which is described in Ian Howard's Swein Forkbeard's Invasions and the Danish Conquest of England, 991-1017 (Boydell & Brewer, 45 [pounds sterling]).