Battle of maldon, the: a new critical edition
Auteur :
Griffith, Mark
Éditeur :
Liverpool University Press
ISBN :
9781835538067
Date de publication :
1 oct. 2024
Dimensions :
23,9 x 16,3 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Maldon is the only substantial late Old English heroic poem to survive and provides unique testimony to the poetics of its period: close re-analysis of it shows it to be a striking mix of old and new, combining features found in much earlier verse with others only otherwise attested in Middle English alliterative poetry.