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Maldon: A Version

Maldon: A Version

Smith, Michael

Paperback

Series: Shearsman Library, Book 13

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1848616538
ISBN13: 9781848616530
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Published: Feb 22 2019
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.08 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Maldon is a version of the Anglo-Saxon epic fragment, The Battle of Maldon, which tells the tale of a battle between the Anglo-Saxons and the invading Vikings which took place ca. 991 AD on the shores of the River Blackwater, Essex, almost certainly opposite Northey Island.

Smith's version of 'Maldon' preserves nicely a ghost of the alliterative pattern that rumbles through the original, without trying to reproduce it fully in a clog-dance of consonants. It is recognisably the same poem as the original: it has its linguistic density and compelling narrative pull, but it is free from the mildewed quaintness that sometimes hangs around translation from Old English. --Dr. Alex Davis

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