44+ The Battle Of Maldon Poem Pics. Only 325 lines of the poem are extant; If the result is satisfying, an assumption like blake's would seem unnecessary laborde conjectured that the poet took part in the battle, was wounded but not slain, and composed the poem (mentioning himself in it) as he nursed.
Among the handful of old english poems even vaguely known to the general public (a tiny fraction of the surviving corpus).
Hige sceal þē heardra, heorte þē cēnre,mōd sceal þē māre, þē ūre mægen lytlað. © on may 16 2014 04:17 am. Earl byrhtnoth and his thegns led the english against a viking invasion. The english were outnumbered, but held a narrow causeway through which the vikings had to pass.