"Tolkien, the Battle of Finnsburg and Hengest " Topic
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| Tango01 | 05 Sep 2015 2:48 p.m. PST |
"The Hobbit and The Lords of the Rings have quite rightly made Tolkien famous as the creator of Middle Earth. Indeed, to many those books far exceed his achievements as a Scholar. Yet of course Tolkien was in fact a Professor of Anglo-Saxon Studies at Oxford for many years, and in that time he contributed extensively to the study of the period before and after the Anglo-Saxon (the English) race migrated across the North Sea to create a land that would one day be called England. He would often lecture on the Battle of Finnsburg and pieces of epic poetry which are called The Fragment and the Episode. His argument was that these stories were not fiction but related to actual historical events: a real battle somewhere in what is now Holland, one of whose participants was Hengest, who, legend has it, led the first Anglo-Saxons across the sea to Kent…"
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Armand |
| Grelber | 05 Sep 2015 6:13 p.m. PST |
Very interesting! I'll have to watch for this book. Grelber |
GamesPoet  | 05 Sep 2015 7:16 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 06 Sep 2015 12:27 p.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friends!. (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
| charared | 06 Sep 2015 5:11 p.m. PST |
Great find Tango! How do you have the time to find these resources!!!  !!!
Charlie |
| Tango01 | 06 Sep 2015 10:59 p.m. PST |
Happy you enjoyed it my friend! (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
| WillieB | 28 Sep 2015 4:05 p.m. PST |
Really want this book!
Thanks very much Armand! |
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