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Battle of Maldon

noun

A battle in which the Danes defeated the Saxons in 991; celebrated in an old English poem. Synonym: Maldon.

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... songs, a few out of a great many, have come down to us, some inserted in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (like the song on the death of Byrhtnoth, defeated and killed by the Danes after a hard fight, at the battle of Maldon, 991), some in separate fragments. Among the more remarkable is the very old fragment on the "Battle of Finnsburg," discovered, like the Waldhere fragment, in the binding of a book. This battle is alluded to in "Beowulf." The fragment has been printed by Grein in his "Bibliothek," vol. ...

— A Literary History of the English People - From the Origins to the Renaissance • Jean Jules Jusserand

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