About “The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son”
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son is a work by J. R. R. Tolkien, originally published in 1953 in volume 6 of the journal Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association. It was later republished in 1966 in The Tolkien Reader and is included in the most recent edition of Tree and Leaf. It is a work of historical fiction inspired by the Old English poem The Battle of Maldon. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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- 1953