Englaland Andrea Cohen What follows is filled with

What follows is filled with emotional drive and a spiritual restlessness

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Nor are the forms any less varied: epic poetry

Englaland Andrea Cohen What follows is filled withAfter the battle of Brunanburh, when thelstans army defeated an invading alliance of Scots, Irish, Britons and Norse, the Viking mercenary Egil Skallagrimsson extemporised a panegyric for the English and their king. Englaland is a stunning re imagining of Skallagrimssons song, an unapologetic and paradoxical affirmation of a bloody, bloody minded and bloody brilliant people. Danish huscarls, Falklands war heroes, pit village bird nesters, aging prize