Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Battle of Maldon, and Short Poems From the Saxon Chronicle: Edited With Introduction, Notes and Glossary
The craft of the nap was valued as highly among the anglo-saxons of Britain as it was among Conti neutal T eutons, and his work was ever sure of cordial welcome wherever the English tongue was understood. The Song of Beowulf and the fragmentary Figlzt at Finmburfz do not, we may be sure, represent more than a small fraction of the cycles of heroic poems that rose and ?ourished in Northumbria in the centuries following the settlement in Britain of the Angles and Saxons. The Beowulf itself is but a single member of such a cycle, though doubtless an important one, and presup poses 'in its hearers a familiarity with other songs closely linked to it. Of such songs the Figbt at Fi?mburlz is the sole surviving example.
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