by Joan Wolf
The poem The Battle of Deorham is a reworking of Tennyson’s rendition of The Battle of Brunanburh. Other poetry in the book is from the Anglo-Saxon poems Judith, The Voyage of Saint Andrew, and, of course, Beowulf.
I am appending a list of the sources I used to write this book for any readers who may be interested.
Sources Consulted
Original Sources
Asser’s Life of King Alfred, ed. W.H. Stevenson, Oxford, 1959.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, ed. J.A. Giles, London, 1912.
Secondary Sources
Burne, A. H. Battlefields of England, London, 1950.
Duckett, Eleanor S. Alfred the Great and His England, London, 1957.
Finberg, H.P.R. The Formation of England 550-1042, London, 1974.
Helm, P. J. Alfred the Great, New York, 1965.
Hodgkin, R. H. A History of the Anglo-Saxons, Vol. II, London, 1935.
Kirby, D. P. The Making of Early England, New York, 1967.
Plummer, Charles. The Life and Times of Alfred the Great, Oxford, 1902.
Stenton, Sir Frank, Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford, 1947.
Wood, Michael. In Search of the Dark Ages, New York, 1987.
To Joe
“The wind beneath my wings”
About the Author
Joan Wolf grew up in the Bronx, New York, and went to Mercy College for her Bachelor's degree and Hunter College for her Master's, both in English and Comparative Literature. Then she taught high school English for nine years in New York City. When her son came along, she and her husband bought a house in Connecticut and she became a stay-at-home mom. Instead of writing her Ph.D. dissertation, she wrote a romance novel. In the past thirty years, she's written 45 books. Visit Joan’s website at http://www.joanwolf.com/ to learn more about her and her books.
Publishing Information
Copyright © 1990 by Joan Wolf
Originally published by New American Library [ISBN 0453007384]
Electronically published in 2012 by Belgrave House
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This is a work of fiction. All names in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to any person living or dead is coincidental.