Re: The Battle of Maldon

["Terry L. Neill" <longshipco@hotmail.com>]

Poster: "Terry L. Neill" <longshipco@hotmail.com>

>Anyone that ever took an Old English lit course, that would
>be willing to share the material with me, please contact me off the 
>Merry Rose


I don't have a copy of the poem _The Battle of Maldon_, but as it 
happens, The Longship Company, Ltd. produced an 18 minute documentary 
about the Battle of Maldon.  It was even shown on the History Channel 
when it was in it's infancy, and bits of it showed up in "Viking 
Footsoldiers" recently.  It doesn't contain the poetry, just the events 
as described in the poem and interepreted subsequently.

It is available at Markland events or you can write and order.  It's $10 
($8 if you are a Markland member) plus $3 postage.

   Markland Ltd.
   PO Box 715
   Greenbelt, MD 20768-0715


I also read an interesting dramatic piece written by Professor J.R.R. 
Tolkien, who was an eminent Anglo-Saxon scholar, that takes place after 
the Battle of Maldon.  I think it was in _A Tolkien Reader_.  It is in 
the poetic style of the Maldon piece.

I hope this helps!

Regards!

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Terry L. Neill                          Anarra Karlsdottir
The Longship Company, Ltd.              Bright Hills, Atlantia
www.wam.umd.edu/~eowyn/Longship/        Østvik Vikings

            It Takes a Viking to Raze a Village

longshipco@hotmail.com


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