Tolkien and Alliterative Verse

Category: Battle of Maldon

• Battle of Maldon New publication The Homecoming of Beorhnoth Tradition of Versification in Old English

  Tolkien lecture now in print

  A significant publication for anyone interested in Tolkien’s alliterative poetry or his views on Old English metre is Peter Grybauskas’s recent edition of Tolkien’s Battle of Maldon together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son and ‘The Tradition of Versification in Old English’. That’s quite a title, but it indicates…

  September 1, 2023
• Announcement Battle of Maldon New publication The Homecoming of Beorhnoth Tradition of Versification in Old English

  New book on Maldon, Homecoming, and more

  Thanks to the Tolkien Guide, we have an announcement of a forthcoming book that will be important for the study of Tolkien’s alliterative verse: The Battle of Maldon together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, edited by Peter Grybauskas and to be published by HarperCollins in March 2023. According to the…

  December 2, 2022