kind stoicism seen characteristic Anglo-Saxon poetry, perhaps nowhere — Peter Ackroyd, Albion: Origins English Imagination

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It is the kind of stoicism which had been seen as characteristic of Anglo-Saxon poetry, perhaps nowhere better expressed than in 'The Battle of Maldon' where the most famous Saxon or English cry has been rendered – 'Courage must be the firmer, heart the bolder, spirit must be the greater, as our strength grows less'. That combination of bravery and fatalism, endurance and understatement, is the defining mood of Arhurian legend.

Peter Ackroyd, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination

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