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The Hero of Maldon: Vir Pius et Strenuus

THE POETIC POWER of J. R. R. Tolkien's "Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son" and the eloquence of his pendant essay "Ofermod" largely gave Maldon criticism its subsequent focus and direction.' As his followers were to do, Tolkien based his view of the poem on a few lines and made little reference to the text as a whole: he described his verse drama, the poetic embodiment of his response to the poem, as "an extended comment on lines 89, 90 of the original: 6a se eorl ongan for his ofermode alyfan landes to fela la/ere 6eode, 'then the earl in his overmastering pride actually yielded ground to the enemy, as he should not have done'" (p. 13). Tolkien noted that much earlier criticism of the poem depended on another pair of lines2 -