Maldon and Brunanburh

    In addition to the bibliography in the editions below, see:
  • The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, pp. 241-3.
    Editions (with notes and commentary) of the OE Text
  • The battle of Maldon. Ed. D. G. Scragg. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1981.
  • (Also edited in in John C. Pope, Seven Old English Poems; and in Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse, 15th ed., rev. Dorothy Whitelock [Oxford: Clarendon, 1967].)
    Some Background and Studies
  • Calder. D.G. and M.J.B. Allen. "The Battle of Maldon." Sources and Analogues of Old English Poetry: the Major Latin Texts in Translation. Brewer: Cambridge, 1976. 187-92.
  • Andersen, Hans Erik. The Battle of Maldon: the meaning, dating & historicity of an Old English poem. [Copenhagen]: Dept. of English, Univ. of Copenhagen, 1991.
  • Cooper, Janet, ed. The Battle of Maldon: fiction and fact. London: Hambledon Press, 1993.
  • Scragg, Donald G. The Battle of Maldon A.D. 991. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.
  • Webster, Leslie. "Archeology and Beowulf." In Beowulf. Ed. Bruce Mitchell and Fred C. Robinson. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. 182-94. [Discussion, and illustrations, of Warrior Culture, Hall, Arms and Armor, Helmets, Mail Coats, Shields, Ships and Other Transport, Death and Burial.]
  • Hooper, Nicholas and Matthew Bennett. Cambridge Illustrated Atlas: Warfare, The Middle Ages, 768-1487. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996. [General history of campaigns and battles during the period; Vikings in England; Brunanburh is mentioned (p. 29), Maldon not. See also "Theory and Practice of Medieval Warfare," 154-169, with discussion and illustration of weapons and armor.]
  • Irving, Edward B. Jr. "The Heroic Style in The Battle of Maldon." SP 58 (1961): 457-67.
  • John, Eric. "War and Society in the Tenth Century: The Maldon Campaign." Trans. of the Royal Hist. Soc., Fifth Series, 27 (1977): 173-91.
  • Woolf, Rosemary. "The ideal of men dying with their lord in the Germania and in The Battle of Maldon." ASE 5 (1976): 63-81.
  • Gneuss, Helmut. "The Battle of Maldon 89: Byrhtnoth's ofermod Once Again." SP 73 (1976): 117-137.
  • ____________. Die Battle of Maldon als historisches und literarisches Zeugniss. Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1976.
  • ____________. "Die Handschrift Cotton Otho A XII." Anglia 94 (1976): 289-318.
  • Bessinger, J.B. Jr. "Maldon and the Olåfsdråpa: An Historical Caveat." Comparative Literature 14 (1962): 23-35.

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