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Byrhtnoth replied, " We will pay you with spear tips and sword blades.
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The Danes demanded that the English pay a ransom, the English commander Byrhtnoth refused ; in the following Battle of Maldon he was killed, and the English easily defeated.
Byrhtnoth and you
The poem praises the Anglo-Saxons defence of " their land, the land of Ethelred the King, the place and the people " and Byrhtnoth, Earl of Essex, is attributed as saying: " Shall our people, our nation, bear you to go hence with our gold?
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As a man with troops and weapons, it might be that Byrhtnoth had to allow the Vikings ashore to protect others.
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* 991 – Battle of Maldon: the English, led by Byrhtnoth, Ealdorman of Essex, are defeated by a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon, Essex.
Æthelwine, supported by his kinsman Ealdorman Byrhtnoth of Essex and others unspecified, mustered an army and caused Ælfhere to back down.
A monastic text from Ely, the Liber Eliensis, mentions a woven narrative wall-hanging commemorating the deeds of Byrhtnoth, killed in 991.
Earl Byrhtnoth and his thegns led the English against a Viking invasion.
The poem suggests that Byrhtnoth held this latter attitude, hence his moving speeches of patriotism.
The Vikings sailed up the Blackwater ( then called the Panta ), and Byrhtnoth called out his levy.
Olaf's forces could not make headway against the troops guarding the small land bridge, and he asked Byrhtnoth to allow his warriors onto the shore.
Byrhtnoth, for his ofermōde ( line 89b ), let all the Vikings cross to the mainland.
Then many English fled, recognizing the horse and thinking that its rider was Byrhtnoth fleeing.
The Vikings overcame the Saxons after losing many men, killing Byrhtnoth.
The death of Byrhtnoth, an ealdorman of Essex, was recorded in four versions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
Very soon after that, ealdorman Byrhtnoth was killed at Maldon.
The Life of Oswald, written in Ramsey, England around the same time as the battle, portrays Byrhtnoth as a nearly supernatural, prophetic figure.
They consider whether Byrhtnoth and his men acted nobly or failed in their mission to protect the land and people from the Viking invaders.
* Alexander M. Bruce Maldon and Moria: on Byrhtnoth, Gandalf, and heroism in The Lord of the Rings Article from " Mythlore ", September 22, 2007.
Elizabeth Solopova suggests that the character of Fëanor was inspired by Byrhtnoth from the Anglo-Saxon poem " The Battle of Maldon " who gets slain in battle.
* Byrhtnoth, ealdorman of Essex ( d. 991 )
The Anglo-Saxons, led by Byrhtnoth and his thegns, fought against a Viking invasion, a battle which ended in defeat for the Anglo-Saxons.
Byrhtnoth ( Byrhtnoþ, also spelled Byrhtnoð, Byrihtnoð, Brihtnoþ, Beorhtnoþ, Beorhtnoð, Baeorhtnoð ) was a 10th century Ealdorman of Essex.
Byrhtnoth was married to Ælfflæd, sister of Dowager Queen Æthelflæd of Damerham, and thus a kinsman of King Edgar by marriage.
Post-Norman Conquest material mentions a daughter of Byrhtnoth named Leofflæd.
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