Re: The Battle of Maldon

["Brett W. McCoy" <bmccoy@lan2wan.com>]

Poster: "Brett W. McCoy" <bmccoy@lan2wan.com>

On Thu, 14 May 1998, Terry L. Neill wrote:

> 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.

Would that be "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son"?  I always
thought that might be an interesting piece to perform at an event.

In Service,
Istvan Dragosani

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