Person:Byrhtnoth (1)

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Name Byrhtnoth _____
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Death[1] 10 Aug 991 Maldon, Essex, England Combatant of Maldon
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Byrhtnoth, Ealdorman of Essex ( 931 - 11 August 991), died at the Battle of Maldon. His name is composed of the Old English beorht (bright) and noð (courage). He is the subject of The Battle of Maldon, an Old English poem, J.R.R. Tolkien's short play in verse, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son, and a modern statue at Maldon.

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References
  1. Byrhtnoth, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2.   Searle, William George. Anglo-Saxon bishops, kings and nobles, the succession of the bishops and the pedigrees of the kings and nobles. (Cambridge: University Press in Cambridge, 1899)
    p. 411.
  3.   Beorhtnoth 14 (Male), in The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England.