The Battle of Maldon
ed. E.V. Gordon
1957
Methuen & Co Ltd
Reprinted with Minor Corrections
12mo
Description:
The 1957 reprint of E.V. Gordon’s edition of The Battle of Maldon, in the Methuen’s Old English Library series, published in London by Methuen & Co. Ltd, with minor corrections. J.R.R. Tolkien, Gordon’s friend and collaborator, read the proofs and contributed many corrections, and a later prose translation by Tolkien was published in 2023.
The poem itself is the great Old English elegy of defeat, composed soon after the battle in AD 991, when an Anglo-Saxon force under Byrhtnoth, ealdorman of Essex, met a Viking army on the Blackwater estuary and was cut down to a man.
Condition:
Very Good Condition. Orange paper covers with black lettering. Binding is firm. Contents are clean. Paper covers are very good with minor chipping to spine ends.
The Battle of Maldon
ed. E.V. Gordon
1957
Methuen & Co Ltd
Reprinted with Minor Corrections
12mo
Description:
The 1957 reprint of E.V. Gordon’s edition of The Battle of Maldon, in the Methuen’s Old English Library series, published in London by Methuen & Co. Ltd, with minor corrections. J.R.R. Tolkien, Gordon’s friend and collaborator, read the proofs and contributed many corrections, and a later prose translation by Tolkien was published in 2023.
The poem itself is the great Old English elegy of defeat, composed soon after the battle in AD 991, when an Anglo-Saxon force under Byrhtnoth, ealdorman of Essex, met a Viking army on the Blackwater estuary and was cut down to a man.
Condition:
Very Good Condition. Orange paper covers with black lettering. Binding is firm. Contents are clean. Paper covers are very good with minor chipping to spine ends.
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