The Battle of Maldon: together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
The Battle of Maldon: together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth is a book of writings by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Peter Grybauskas. It was published on 30 March 2023 first in UK, then on 6 June in US.
The book presents for the first time Tolkien's own prose translation of "The Battle of Maldon", a 10-century Old English poem about a real world battle, together with the poem The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, an imaginary sequel to the battle and frame narrative to the poem. Also included is a previously unpublished lecture "The Tradition of Versification in Old English", which deals with the nature of poetic tradition.
It includes a colour frontispiece reproducing a page from Tolkien’s original manuscript of The Homecoming. The deluxe edition also comes with a CD of J.R.R. Tolkien reading The Homecoming with his son Christopher reading "Beorhtnoth's Death" and "Ofermod". The recording was previously distributed on classic cassettes in 1992, which is now rare, but has been remastered on CD.
Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgement
- Introduction
- Part One: The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son
- — (I) Beorhtnoth's Death
- — (II) The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son
- — (III) Ofermod
- — Notes
- Part Two: The Battle of Maldon
- — Introductory Note
- — The Battle of Maldon, translated by J.R.R. Tolkien
- — Notes
- Part Three: The Tradition of Versification in Old English
- Appendices
- — I 'Old English Prosody'
- — II 'The Tradition of Versification in Old English' [continued]
- — III Alliteration on 'g' in The Battle of Maldon
- — IV An Early Homecoming in Rhyme
- — V Noteworthy Developments in the Drafts of The Homecoming
- — VI Proofing the Pudding: The Homecoming in Dialogue with the Legendarium
Publication history and gallery
Referencias
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