This is part of a historical tour of Maldon
Google Earth gives a much better aerial view
A site offering the original Intermediate Saxon verse
Commentary and photo (with tide out!)
A very stylish site
The Battle of Maldon - translation
A translation by Bill Griffiths - book - see below
A translation by Mary K. Savelli
A translation by Douglas B. Killings
The Battle of Maldon - Oxford University
Online articles and further reading - a very comprehensive list from Old English Literature at the University of Oxford.
Another resource being compiuled by Oxford University
A very useful set of links provided by the University of Strathclyde.
A translation by Jonathan Glenn
More from Jonathan Glen from his own Lightspill web-site
The connections between the battle and the tapestry?
Wikipedia's reference page about Longships
About the Viking Drakkar by Jim Cornish
The Vikings - what is myth and what is fact?
A more popularist view
The view of Imogen White from Dickson College, Australia
Notes from University of Chicago
More links on relevant topics from Anglo Saxon Imports
From the Old English course at the University of Virginia, USA.
Bibliotheca Augustana, a site based in Germany
A brief resume from the Britain Express site
The BBC site contains links to its own information following the series on the Vikings, and useful external links.
The manuscript of the Battle of Maldon poem was lost by fire from his important library at Ashburnham House in 1731 (23 October to be precise!).
Anglo-Saxon Charters - this site from the British Academy - Royal Historical Society commemorates persons who played important roles in the development of Anglo Saxon studies.
Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman, and British living history. They aim to recreate a cross-section of life between AD950 and 1066..
Created by the UK Battlefields Trust
Wikipedia's reference to the battle.
Cambridge University's Old English Resources web-site
From WW Norton, New York (PDF file)
Literary Encylcopedia - Paul Cavill
The British Library holds a massive range of books and manuscripts. You can search their catalogue on-line for Battle of Maldon references.
Maldon information via YourLocalWeb
A site maintained by the Sutton Hoo Society - magnificent images of the Anglo-Saxon treasures found at this site near Woodbridge in Suffolk, England, not too distant from Maldon in Essex.
Another translation can be found in:
'The Battle of Maldon and Other Old English Poems' - Kevin Crossley-Holland and Bruce Mitchell - MacMillian 1967
More background information on the Battle of Maldon can be found in Derek Punchard's and Barbara Smith's chapters in:
'Maeldune - Light on Maldon's Distant Past' published by the Maldon Archaeological Group. 1992 ISBN 0 9511948 1 X
Derek Punchard now has published material on the web - click here.
Battle of Maldon Translation by Bill Griffiths - no longer appear available on line, but may be purchased Oxbow Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9516209-0-8
ISBN-10: 0-9516209-0-8
If you can still find a copy, a Maldon classic:
'Maldon and the River Blackwater (with Plan, Chart, and Numerous Illustrations)' by E.A. Fitch (1898?) Published by Gowers Ltd. in Maldon.
'The Book of Maldon' Ian Linton - Barracuda Books Ltd. 1984 ISBN 0 86023 185 2 has a brief section which puts the battle in context.