Forgotten Ground Regained
Contributor: Martin Vine
Martin Vine is a writer and performer with a particular interest in Anglo-Saxon England and how it relates to the modern world. He is the most prolific poet associated with Ða Engliscan Gesiðas (The English Companions), a British historical society devoted to all things Old English. He has won that society's Cædmon Prize twice (in 2015 and 2019), and published fifteen poems in alliterative verse, eleven of them in the pages of Withowinde. This includes quite a few comic poems, originally composed for the amusement of members at society functions (these are marked with an asterisk, *, below). He has also published a nuts and bolts guide to writing Old English style poetry for the benefit of fellow members of the Companions.
All of his alliterative verse is now available on this site:
Cædmon Prize-winning poems:
- The Commuter (2016)
- The Wood (2019)
His other poems:
Originally published in Withowinde
- Ancestral Echoes (2017)
- Land Rites (2012)
- At Ethandun (1999)
- Extract from ‘Malfosse’ (1995)
- Lay of the Staffordshire Hoard Dragon (2011)*
- Beor’s Lament (2006)*
- Heorot, The Early Days (2002)*
- King Penda’s Apache Attack Helicopters (1998)*
- The True Meaning of Yuletide (Withowinde 212, 2024, p. 41)
First Published on This Site
Originally Published in Local Newsletters and Magazines
- Blodmonath [from the South Saxon Chronicle]
- Epitaph to the Sussex King before Æthelwalch [from Winlandes Sagu]
- Place of Slaughter [from The Dark Path]
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