The genesis of The Battle of Maldon
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The Battle of Maldon is usually taken by modern scholars to be a reasonably accurate account of the way in which the battle developed. While not everyone today would necessarily agree with Gordon's statement, ‘the account of the battle in the poem, in so far as its statements can be checked, is accurate in every particular’, it nevertheless remains indicative of a not uncommon attitude. This attitude has been accentuated both by such fantasies as that of the late Professor Tolkien, who invented a poetic aftermath for the poem, and by attempts to localize the site of the battle following the indications provided in the poem. Reviews of Byrhtnoth's generalship also presuppose that the poem presents a realistic account of the battle, so that tactical decision can be evaluated. Some voices have been raised against taking the poem's account too literally, and many commentators now tend to assume a general, if not a detailed, accuracy. Most would perhaps agree with Professor Cross when he writes ‘the poet has selected from, elaborated on, and presumably omitted from a knowledge (not necessarily detailed) of the real events to suit his own purpose as distinguished in the poem’. Even this presupposes that the author was using historical evidence as the basis of his poem.
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While not everyone today would necessarily agree with Gordon's statement, ‘the account of the battle in the poem, in so far as its statements can be checked, is accurate in every particular’, it nevertheless remains indicative of a not uncommon attitude. This attitude has been accentuated both by such fantasies as that of the late Professor Tolkien, who invented a poetic aftermath for the poem, and by attempts to localize the site of the battle following the indications provided in the poem. Reviews of Byrhtnoth's generalship also presuppose that the poem presents a realistic account of the battle, so that tactical decision can be evaluated. Some voices have been raised against taking the poem's account too literally, and many commentators now tend to assume a general, if not a detailed, accuracy. Most would perhaps agree with Professor Cross when he writes ‘the poet has selected from, elaborated on, and presumably omitted from a knowledge (not necessarily detailed) of the real events to suit his own purpose as distinguished in the poem’. Even this presupposes that the author was using historical evidence as the basis of his poem.</p></abstract><counts><page-count count="11"></page-count></counts><custom-meta-wrap><custom-meta><meta-name>pdf</meta-name><meta-value>S0263675100002891a.pdf</meta-value></custom-meta></custom-meta-wrap></article-meta></front><back><fn-group><fn id="fn01" symbol="page 119 note 1"><label><sup>page 119 note 1</sup></label><p><citation id="ref001" citation-type="book"><source>The Battle of Maldon</source>, ed. <name><surname>Gordon</surname><given-names>E. V.</given-names></name> (<publisher-loc>London</publisher-loc>, <year>1937</year>), p. <fpage>4</fpage></citation>. Repr. with supplement by D. G. Scragg (Manchester, 1976).</p></fn><fn id="fn02" symbol="page 119 note 2"><label><sup>page 119 note 2</sup></label><p><citation id="ref002" citation-type="journal"><name><surname>Tolkien</surname><given-names>J. R. R.</given-names></name>, ‘<article-title>The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son</article-title>‘, <source>E&S</source> n.s. <volume>6</volume> (<year>1953</year>), <fpage>1</fpage>–<lpage>18</lpage></citation>. A recent review of the terrain is <citation id="ref003" citation-type="journal"><name><surname>Macrae-Gibson</surname><given-names>O. D.</given-names></name>, ‘<article-title>How Historical Is <italic>The Battle of Maldon?</italic></article-title>’ <source>MAElig;</source> <volume>39</volume> (<year>1970</year>), <fpage>89</fpage>–<lpage>107</lpage>.</citation></p></fn><fn id="fn03" symbol="page 119 note 3"><label><sup>page 119 note 3</sup></label><p><citation id="ref004" citation-type="journal"><name><surname>Samouce</surname><given-names>W. A.</given-names></name>, ‘<article-title>General Byrhtnoth</article-title>’, <source>JEGP</source> <volume>62</volume> (<year>1963</year>), <fpage>129</fpage>–35.</citation></p></fn><fn id="fn04" symbol="page 119 note 4"><label><sup>page 119 note 4</sup></label><p>Particularly J. B. Bessinger, <italic>‘Maldon</italic> and the <italic>Óláfsdrápa:</italic> an Historical Caveat’, <italic>Studies in Old English Literature in honor of Arthur G. Brodeur</italic>, ed. S. B. Greenfield (Eugene, Oregon, 1963), pp. 23–35. See also <citation id="ref005" citation-type="journal"><name><surname>Clark</surname><given-names>G.</given-names></name>, ‘<article-title><italic>The Battle of Maldon:</italic> a Heroic Poem</article-title>‘,<source>Speculum</source> <volume>43</volume> (<year>1968</year>), <fpage>52</fpage>–<lpage>71</lpage></citation>. In <citation id="ref006" citation-type="other">‘The Ideal of Men Dying with their Lord in the <italic>Germania</italic> and in <italic>The Battle of Maldon</italic>’, <italic>ASE</italic> 5 (<year>1976</year>), <fpage>63</fpage>–<lpage>81</lpage></citation>, Rosemary Woolf points to the thematic parallels between <italic>Maldon</italic> and <italic>Bjarkamál;</italic> the latter, she suggests, may have been the source of the former. While she does not discuss the historicity of the Old English poem, there is the implication that a man borrowing literary themes from elsewhere is not composing a historical record.</p></fn><fn id="fn05" symbol="page 119 note 5"><label><sup>page 119 note 5</sup></label><p><citation id="ref007" citation-type="book"><name><surname>Cross</surname><given-names>J. E.</given-names></name>, ‘Mainly on Philology and the Interpretative Criticism of <italic>Maldon</italic>’,<source>Old English Studies in honour of John C. Pope</source>, ed. <name><surname>Burlin</surname><given-names>Robert B.</given-names></name> and <name><surname>Irving</surname><given-names>Edward B.</given-names><suffix>Jr</suffix></name>. (<publisher-loc>Toronto</publisher-loc>, <year>1974</year>), p. <fpage>240</fpage>.</citation></p></fn><fn id="fn06" symbol="page 120 note 1"><label><sup>page 120 note 1</sup></label><p><citation id="ref008" citation-type="journal"><name><surname>McKinnell</surname><given-names>J.</given-names></name>, ‘<article-title>On the Date of <italic>The Baltle of Maldon</italic></article-title>’, <source>MÆ</source> <volume>44</volume> (<year>1975</year>), <fpage>121</fpage>–36.</citation></p></fn><fn id="fn07" symbol="page 120 note 2"><label><sup>page 120 note 2</sup></label><p><citation id="ref009" citation-type="book"><name><surname>Nordal</surname><given-names>S.</given-names></name> (trans. <name><surname>Thomas</surname><given-names>R. G.</given-names></name>), <source>Hrafnkels Saga Freysgoða</source> (<publisher-loc>Cardiff</publisher-loc>, <year>1958</year>)</citation>. See also <citation id="ref010" citation-type="journal"><name><surname>Macrae-Gibson</surname><given-names>O. D.</given-names></name>, ‘<article-title>The Topography of <italic>Hrafnkels Saga</italic></article-title>’, <source>SBVS</source> <volume>49</volume> (<year>1974</year>–<year>1976</year>), <fpage>239</fpage>–63.</citation></p></fn><fn id="fn08" symbol="page 121 note 1"><label><sup>page 121 note 1</sup></label><p><citation id="ref011" citation-type="book"><source>Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel</source>, ed. <name><surname>Plummer</surname><given-names>C.</given-names></name> and <name><surname>Earle</surname><given-names>J.</given-names></name>, with bibliographical supplement by Dorothy Whitelock (<publisher-loc>Oxford</publisher-loc>, <year>1952</year>), p. <fpage>126</fpage>.</citation></p></fn><fn id="fn09" symbol="page 121 note 2"><label><sup>page 121 note 2</sup></label><p><citation id="ref012" citation-type="other"><name><surname>Gordon</surname></name>, <italic>Battle of Maldon</italic>, pp. <fpage>5</fpage>–<lpage>6</lpage></citation>. For the identification of Byrhtferth as the author of the <italic>Vita Oswaldi</italic> see <citation id="ref013" citation-type="journal"><name><surname>Lapidge</surname><given-names>Michael</given-names></name>, ‘<article-title>The Hermeneutic Style in Tenth-Century Anglo-Latin Literature</article-title>’, <source>ASE</source> <volume>4</volume> (<year>1975</year>), <fpage>90</fpage>–5.</citation></p></fn><fn id="fn10" symbol="page 122 note 1"><label><sup>page 122 note 1</sup></label><p><citation id="ref014" citation-type="journal"><source>The Historians of the Church of York and its Archbishops</source>, ed. <name><surname>Raine</surname><given-names>J.</given-names></name>, Rolls Ser. (<year>1879</year>–<year>1894</year>), <fpage>1</fpage>, <fpage>456</fpage></citation>. (‘When not many months had passed another violent battle took place in the east of this famous region. The glorious leader Byrhtnoth together with his retainers was in the forefront of the battle. Who by relying on elegance alone could portray how gloriously, how manfully and how bravely he urged on his warlords to the front ? There he himself stood tall in stature, towering above the others, whose hand was supported not by Aaron and Hur, but it was assisted by the multifarious piety of God. He also struck fiercely on the right without concern for the white hair of his head since he was comforted by alms and holy masses. He protected himself on the left forgetful of the infirmity of his body which prayers and good deeds kept erect. When the peerless leader of the battle saw his enemies rush forward, bravely fight his men and kill many of them, he began to fight for his country with his whole strength. An enormous number of their men and ours fell in battle, Byrhtnoth himself was killed, and the rest fled. The Danes however were so extensively mauled that they hardly had enough men to man their ships.’)</p></fn><fn id="fn11" symbol="page 124 note 1"><label><sup>page 124 note 1</sup></label><p>Cf. Besinger, ‘<italic>Maldon</italic> and the <italic>Óláfsdrápa’</italic>, p. 31.</p></fn><fn id="fn12" symbol="page 124 note 2"><label><sup>page 124 note 2</sup></label><p>For an edition and translation see <citation id="ref015" citation-type="book"><source>The Poetic Edda</source>, ed. <name><surname>Dronke</surname><given-names>Ursula</given-names></name> <volume>1</volume> (<publisher-loc>Oxford</publisher-loc>, <year>1969</year>), <fpage>3</fpage>–<lpage>74</lpage>.</citation></p></fn><fn id="fn13" symbol="page 124 note 3"><label><sup>page 124 note 3</sup></label><p>On the nature of heroes see <citation id="ref016" citation-type="book"><name><surname>Bowra</surname><given-names>C. M.</given-names></name>, <source>Heroic Poetry</source> (<publisher-loc>London</publisher-loc>, <year>1952</year>),</citation> ch. 3.</p></fn><fn id="fn14" symbol="page 125 note 1"><label><sup>page 125 note 1</sup></label><p>Most recently expounded in Cross, ‘Philology and the Interpretative Criticism of <italic>Maldon’</italic>. In view of the later date now suggested for <italic>Maldon</italic>, which allows for greater Scandinavian influence in the poem, linguistic investigation of key words and phrases will have to pay more attention to Scandinavian parallels than hitherto.</p></fn><fn id="fn15" symbol="page 125 note 2"><label><sup>page 125 note 2</sup></label><p><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref016">Ibid.</xref> p. 243.</p></fn><fn id="fn16" symbol="page 125 note 3"><label><sup>page 125 note 3</sup></label><p>See <citation id="ref017" citation-type="other"><name><surname>Dronke</surname></name>, <italic>Poetic Edda</italic> i, <fpage>14</fpage></citation>: ‘The invitation is no longer an invitation but a challenge. Now that danger is certain, Gunnarr cannot refuse. Their sister's warning, her officious fears, have forced them to accept.’.</p></fn><fn id="fn17" symbol="page 126 note 1"><label><sup>page 126 note 1</sup></label><p><italic>Battle of Maldon</italic>, pp. 84–5</p></fn><fn id="fn18" symbol="page 127 note 1"><label><sup>page 127 note 1</sup></label><p><citation id="ref018" citation-type="book"><name><surname>Laborde</surname><given-names>E. D.</given-names></name>, <source>Byrbinotb and Maldon</source> (<publisher-loc>London</publisher-loc>, <year>1936</year>), p. <fpage>36</fpage>.</citation></p></fn><fn id="fn19" symbol="page 127 note 2"><label><sup>page 127 note 2</sup></label><p><citation id="ref019" citation-type="journal"><name><surname>Blake</surname><given-names>N. F.</given-names></name>, ‘<article-title>The Battle of Maldon</article-title>’, <source>Neopbilologus</source> <volume>49</volume> (<year>1965</year>), <fpage>332</fpage>–45.</citation></p></fn><fn id="fn20" symbol="page 128 note 1"><label><sup>page 128 note 1</sup></label><p><citation id="ref020" citation-type="other"><italic>ASE</italic> 5 (<year>1976</year>), <fpage>65</fpage>–<lpage>81</lpage>.</citation></p></fn><fn id="fn21" symbol="page 129 note 1"><label><sup>page 129 note 1</sup></label><p>Cf. <citation id="ref021" citation-type="other"><name><surname>Bessinger</surname></name>, ‘<italic>Maldon</italic> and the <italic>Óláfsdrápa</italic>’, p. <fpage>28</fpage>,</citation> and <citation id="ref022" citation-type="journal"><name><surname>Blake</surname><given-names>N. F.</given-names></name>, ‘<article-title>The Flyting in The Battle of <italic>Maldon</italic></article-title>’, <source>ELN</source> <volume>13</volume> (<year>1976</year>), <fpage>242</fpage>–5.</citation></p></fn></fn-group></back></article></istex:document></istex:metadataXml><mods version="3.6"><titleInfo><title>The genesis of The Battle of Maldon</title></titleInfo><titleInfo type="alternative" contentType="CDATA"><title>The genesis of The Battle of Maldon</title></titleInfo><name type="personal"><namePart type="given">N. F.</namePart><namePart type="family">Blake</namePart><affiliation>The University of Sheffield</affiliation><role><roleTerm type="text">author</roleTerm></role></name><typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource><genre type="research-article" displayLabel="research-article" authority="ISTEX" authorityURI="https://content-type.data.istex.fr" valueURI="https://content-type.data.istex.fr/ark:/67375/XTP-1JC4F85T-7">research-article</genre><originInfo><publisher>Cambridge University Press</publisher><place><placeTerm type="text">Cambridge, UK</placeTerm></place><dateIssued encoding="w3cdtf">1978-12</dateIssued><copyrightDate encoding="w3cdtf">1978</copyrightDate></originInfo><language><languageTerm type="code" authority="iso639-2b">eng</languageTerm><languageTerm type="code" authority="rfc3066">en</languageTerm></language><abstract type="text-abstract">The Battle of Maldon is usually taken by modern scholars to be a reasonably accurate account of the way in which the battle developed. While not everyone today would necessarily agree with Gordon's statement, ‘the account of the battle in the poem, in so far as its statements can be checked, is accurate in every particular’, it nevertheless remains indicative of a not uncommon attitude. This attitude has been accentuated both by such fantasies as that of the late Professor Tolkien, who invented a poetic aftermath for the poem, and by attempts to localize the site of the battle following the indications provided in the poem. Reviews of Byrhtnoth's generalship also presuppose that the poem presents a realistic account of the battle, so that tactical decision can be evaluated. Some voices have been raised against taking the poem's account too literally, and many commentators now tend to assume a general, if not a detailed, accuracy. Most would perhaps agree with Professor Cross when he writes ‘the poet has selected from, elaborated on, and presumably omitted from a knowledge (not necessarily detailed) of the real events to suit his own purpose as distinguished in the poem’. Even this presupposes that the author was using historical evidence as the basis of his poem.</abstract><relatedItem type="host"><titleInfo><title>Anglo-Saxon England</title></titleInfo><titleInfo type="abbreviated"><title>Anglo-Saxon England</title></titleInfo><genre type="journal" authority="ISTEX" authorityURI="https://publication-type.data.istex.fr" valueURI="https://publication-type.data.istex.fr/ark:/67375/JMC-0GLKJH51-B">journal</genre><identifier type="ISSN">0263-6751</identifier><identifier type="eISSN">1474-0532</identifier><identifier type="PublisherID">ASE</identifier><part><date>1978</date><detail type="volume"><caption>vol.</caption><number>7</number></detail><extent unit="pages"><start>119</start><end>129</end><total>11</total></extent></part></relatedItem><identifier type="istex">8E119D2F442D109D610881FC85089C7CF2B1B5F9</identifier><identifier type="ark">ark:/67375/6GQ-P0SPNDPR-L</identifier><identifier type="DOI">10.1017/S0263675100002891</identifier><identifier type="PII">S0263675100002891</identifier><identifier type="ArticleID">00289</identifier><accessCondition type="use and reproduction" contentType="copyright">Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978</accessCondition><recordInfo><recordContentSource authority="ISTEX" authorityURI="https://loaded-corpus.data.istex.fr" valueURI="https://loaded-corpus.data.istex.fr/ark:/67375/XBH-G3RCRD03-V">cambridge</recordContentSource><recordOrigin>Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978</recordOrigin></recordInfo></mods><json:item><extension>json</extension><original>false</original><mimetype>application/json</mimetype><uri>https://api.istex.fr/ark:/67375/6GQ-P0SPNDPR-L/record.json</uri></json:item></metadata><serie></serie></istex></record>Pour manipuler ce document sous Unix (Dilib)
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