Brunanburh

Further, she argues that AEthelstan, with his victory at Brunanburh, could claim to rule not just the English, but England as well.

Michael Kuczynski's "Translation and Adaptation in Tennyson's Battle of Brunanburh" (Philological Quarterly 86, no.

The Battle of Brunanburh actually took place at Bromborough in Wirral in 937AD, lasted from dawn to dusk, cost the lives of thousands of warriors and changed the structure of the British Isles forever.

Tennyson experimented with this verse form more fully in other original poems and translations, most famously in "The Battle of Brunanburh" (Poems 3.18 23).

They have heard of King Edgar and King Aethelstan; Winchester, so important in the Anglo-Saxon period, retains for some of them a symbolic significance outweighing its political position in the later Middle Ages; they have a sense that all that is good about English law (some of which happens to be Anglo-Saxon in origin) must be ancient; and a greatly romanticized version of the battle of Brunanburh complete with obligatory giant crops up in Guy of Warwick as just one of the many sensational events of that narrative.

The article by Kevin Halloran in the June issue is by no means the first suggestion that Brunanburh was fought at Burnawick Hill north of the Solway Firth.

As well as the famous battles of Bannockburn, Flodden and Culloden, Rupert Chronicles the lesser-known encounters such as Nechtansmere, Brunanburh, Neville's Cross and Newburn.

John Dodgson makes an excellent, though not watertight, case for the identification of Brunanburh (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, annal 937), site of the famous victory of the English over a Norse army, with Bromborough in Cheshire.

Battle of Brunanburh, The , Brunanburh also spelled Brunnanburh.

The Old English section of the book does present a few problems, not in the selection of texts where we move from the glosses to the Vespasian Psalter to the Battle of Maldon (covering the Lindisfarne Gospel, Alfred, AElfric, Caedmon, and the Battle of Brunanburh in the process), but perhaps rather in the accompanying translations which are provided for these texts.

Did you know there was a Battle of Brunanburh? Get yourself down for an afternoon of fascination as local historian Ken Pye takes you on a whistlestop tour through the history of the wonderful Wirral.

Kachurovsky always mentioned Borges as one of the most significant authors of the twentieth century and even dedicated one of his own poems to him in which he expressed his admiration for the Argentinean ("[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]") ["He spoke about old times, / about Beowulf and the Battle of Brunanburh, / He became a demiurge, / who created the world from withered beauty"].

His most recent book is The Battle of Brunanburh: A Casebook (Exeter, 2011).

The same extensive, unbiased treatment is given to the reign of Athelstan (927-939) and the events leading to the celebrated battle of Brunanburh (937), and Edmund (939-946) who gradually conquered York and the five boroughs, as celebrated in the battle poem from the Chronicle 'The Conquest of the Five Boroughs' (942).

Alfred Tennyson's version of the tenth-century Anglo-Saxon Battle of Brunanburh is in general an interesting exception to this rule, praised in its own day and in ours as a faithful, sensitive, even eloquent recreation of its source.