"Battle of Maldon - Translations, archaeology / evidence?" Topic
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Chocolate  | 22 Feb 2014 5:44 p.m. PST |
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| IagreewithSpartacus | 23 Feb 2014 2:55 a.m. PST |
Kevin Crossley-Holland published a translation of the Battle of Maldon in the 1970s. I remember being very impressed. |
| Cardinal Hawkwood | 23 Feb 2014 4:32 a.m. PST |
I translated it myself in 1987 but no longer have a copy.fun. |
| Cardinal Hawkwood | 23 Feb 2014 4:38 a.m. PST |
Is there anything wrong with the translation on that link?Seems fine to me, attempts to capture the orginal's rythm but cant really do justice to the orginal's alliterative style |
| Wombling Free | 23 Feb 2014 7:51 a.m. PST |
I'm not sure of your time-frame for advances but these books are certainly good starting points for study of its archaeology and historicity, as well as the poem's place in literature:
Scragg, D. G., ed., The Battle of Maldon AD 991 (Oxford, 1991)
Cooper, Janet, ed., The Battle of Maldon: Fiction and Fact (London, 1993)
A quick search does not show much more recent than these that deals with archaeology or historicity, although Academia.Edu provides a list of papers that might be of interest if you feel like trawling through them:
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