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Maldon

noun
1.
A battle in which the Danes defeated the Saxons in 991; celebrated in an old English poem.  Synonym: Battle of Maldon.





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"Maldon" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ipswich made no defense, and were plundered; and the fleet then sailed into the mouth of the River Blackwater, as far as Maldon, where the ravagers landed, and began to collect spoil. When, however, they came back to their ships, they found that the tide would not yet serve them to re-embark; and upon the farther bank of the river bristled the spears of a body of warriors, drawn ...
— A Book of Golden Deeds • Charlotte M. Yonge


Words linked to "Maldon" :   England, pitched battle


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