Crossword-Solution: BRUNANBURH
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| A BATTLE IN 937 WHEN ATHELSTAN DEFEATED THE SCOTS | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with BRUNANBURH (5)
Most of the entries in the 'Chronicle' are bare and brief, but sometimes, especially in the accounts of Alfred's own splendid exploits, a writer is roused to spirited narrative, occasionally in verse; and in the tenth century two great battles against invading Northmen, at Brunanburh and Maldon, produced the only important extant pieces of Anglo-Saxon poetry which certainly belong to the West Saxon period.
The extant fragments of pagan literature include one epic or heroic poem, _Beowulf_, and several lyrics and battle songs, such as "Widsith," "Deor's Lament," "The Seafarer," "The Battle of Brunanburh" and "The Battle of Maldon." All these were written at an unknown date, and by unknown poets.
Perhaps it was that _Song of the Battle of Brunanburh_ which Tennyson has so skilfully rendered into modern English words while preserving the Old English metre.
ELENE; JUDITH; ATHELSTAN, OR THE FIGHT AT BRUNANBURH; BYRHTNOTH, OR THE FIGHT AT MALDON; AND THE DREAM OF THE ROOD: Anglo-Saxon Poems.
The Hebrews pursue them in flight, plunder the slain, and bestow upon Judith the arms and treasure of Holofernes 53 * * * * * ATHELSTAN, OR THE FIGHT AT BRUNANBURH.