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The Battle of Brunanburh

About the Author: Abirlal Mukherjee

Assistant Professor (Amity University), Digital Humanist
Ph.D in English (GITAM, India), M.A. and B.A. in English (B.C.C., B.K.U, India), P.G.D.E. -I by Research (B.C.U, UK), TESOL Prof. Certification (Arizona State University, USA)

Founder, Chair of the Secretaries of University Learner, India School on Internet Governance Fellow 2024, IIM-B, Member of Internet Society, Bangalore, Internal Complaints Committee Member, GITAM Deemed to be University, Bengaluru, Teach for India Fellow 2023 and Fellowship Recruitment Committee, Delhi

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The Battle of Brunanburh – 73 lines

  • Time of the war: 937 between English army of king AEthelstan and a combined army of Northern Kings (Scots, Vikings, Britons).
  • Written in West-Saxon Dialect
  • Edited by – Alistair Campbell
  • Remarkable for its nationalistic tone.
  • The poem begins with praise King AEthelstan and his brother Edmund I for their victory. It mentions the fall of Scots and Seafarers in a battle that lasted for a day. 
  • Lord Alfred Tennyson translated or modernised the poem in 1880 publishing it as part of his Ballads and Other Poems, and his son Hallam Tenyson published a prose translation of the poem.
  • The Argentine Writer Jorge Luis Borges write a short poem “Brunanburh 937 AD”.

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