AGES ERA PERIOD
RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY
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Question
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Danes and English
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Dutch and English
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Normans and English
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French and English
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Detailed explanation-1: -Battle of Maldon, in English history, a conflict fought in 991 between Saxons and victorious Viking raiders.
Detailed explanation-2: -“The Battle of Maldon” is a story of guts and glory; patriot versus enemy. Byrhtnoth symbolizes the patriot, who would rather die than secede to the enemy, who are the Vikings, portrayed as villainous “slaughter-wolves” hell-bent on destruction.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Battle of Maldon took place on 11 August 991 AD near Maldon beside the River Blackwater in Essex, England, during the reign of Æthelred the Unready. Earl Byrhtnoth and his thegns led the English against a Viking invasion.
Detailed explanation-4: -"The Battle of Maldon” is the name given to an Old English poem of uncertain date celebrating the real Battle of Maldon of 991, at which an Anglo-Saxon army failed to repulse a Viking raid. Only 325 lines of the poem are extant; both the beginning and the ending are lost.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Battle of Maldon represents the last known Old English epic poem written before the Norman invasion. Our selection includes lines 295-325, found on p. 120 in: Charles T.