NOUN
- a battle in which the Danes defeated the Saxons in 991; celebrated in an old English poem
How To Use Battle of Maldon In A Sentence
- The only people who had to abide by any duty of standing with their lord were the warriors as can be seen by the account of the Battle of Maldon.
- We have in the "Battle of Maldon" a great patriotic poem, written about the "ealdorman" [H] of the East Angles, Byrthnoth, or Brihtnoth, who stood so valiantly against the Danes. Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days
- To recreate the scene, imagine the aftermath of the battle of Maldon restaged on the nursery ground's sodden and sticky turf: entire divisions of genial, man-shorted, smartphone-braying figures roiling giddily from bench to grass, many already on their knees, others entirely capsized. Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay