Further reading

Primary Sources

 

Campbell A. (ed.) Encomium Emmae Reginae, with an introduction by Simon Keynes, Camden Classic Reprints, Cambridge University Press, 1998

Fairweather J. (trans.) Liber Eliensis, Boydell Press, 2005

Swanton M. (trans.) The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles New Edition, Phoenix Press, 2000

Townend M. ‘Ottarr svarti, Knutsdrapa’ in Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035, Diana Whaley (ed.), Brepols, 2012

 

Secondary Literature

 

Brocklebank C. ‘Notes on the Battle of Assandun’ in Journal of the British Archaeological Association - New Series Vol 32, British Archaeological Association, 1926

Burrows J.W. ‘The Battle over a Battle’ in Journal of the British Archaeological Association - New Series Vol 32, British Archaeological Association, 1926

Christy M. ‘The Battle of Assandun: Where was it Fought?’ in Journal of the British Archaeological Association - New Series Vol 31, British Archaeological Association, 1925

Croxton-Smith P. ‘The site of the battle of Assandun’ in Saffron Walden Historical Journal, Spring 2002, http://www.recordinguttlesfordhistory.org.uk/hadstock/hadstockbattle.html

Dickins B. ‘The Day of Byrhtnoth’s Death and Other Obits from a Twelfth-Century Ely Calendar’ in Leeds Studies in English 6 (1937), University of Leeds

Forester T. (trans.) Florence of Worcester’s Chronicle, Bohn’s Antiquarian Library, 1854

Hart C. ‘The Site of Assandun’ in The Danelaw, Hambledon Press, 1992

Howard I. Swein Forkbeard's Invasions and the Danish Conquest of England 991-1017, The Boydell Press, 2003

Kemble J. ‘Knutsdrapa and the site of the Battle of Assandun’ in Essex Journal Spring 2014, Essex Society for Archaeology & History

Momentous Britain The Battle of Assandun ... at Essendon?, https://www.momentousbritain.co.uk/go/battle_of_assandun

Palsson H. & Edwards P. (trans.) Knytlinga Saga: The History of the Kings of Denmark, Odense University Press, 1986

Poole R. ‘Skaldic Verse and Anglo-Saxon History: Some Aspects of the Period 1009-1016’ in Speculum Vol. 62 No. 2, 1987

Rodwell W.J. ‘The Archaeological Investigations of Hadstock Church Essex’ in The Antiquaries Journal Vol LVI Part I, 1976

Rodwell W.J. ‘The Battle of Assandun and its Memorial Church’ in The Battle of Maldon – Fiction and Fact, ed. J. Cooper, The Hambledon Press, 2003

Swete H.B. ‘On the Identification of Assanduna with Ashdon’ from Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society - New Series Vol 4, Wiles & Son, 1893 (paper first presented 1889)

 

Other Resources

 

Historic England research record, Battle of Ashingdon (Ashdon), https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=6e902379-1fb3-43f0-9039-3e2a5cead25c&resourceID=19191

Historic England research record, Battle of Ashingdon (Ashingdon), https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=f63f5d7a-bb37-476c-8f77-bbc646adce9f&resourceID=19191

Historic England research record, Battle of Ashingdon (Assington), https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=05a24f01-092f-4b74-98a4-d8db53298fa7&resourceID=19191

 

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