The Text

The Battle of Maldon is a fragment of 325 lines whose beginning and end are lost. The poem is preserved in a 18th-century copy from a lost manuscript. The battle between Vikings and Saxons took place near Maldon, Essex in 991. The poem was composed around 995, but nothing is known about its author.

The Battle of Maldon

Appendix

The Battle-of-Maldon Site
Sources/Colophon