Battle of Flodden.

Posted on October 2, 2013 by Harry Nicholson

Sept 9th 2013. 500 years to the hour, historian Clive Hallam-Baker describes the weapons.

Scotland was ruined for a generation.

About Harry Nicholson

I once bred Beveren rabbits in all colours. Today, I'm an enameller who works with a kiln, fusing pictures in glass onto copper. On Amazon is my novel, 'Tom Fleck', set in the North of England of 1513 - the year of Flodden. A sequel to 'Tom Fleck' is 'The Black Caravel' published in 2016. My anthology of poems came out in 2015: 'Wandering About.' Recently I published memoirs of my time in the Merchant Navy: 'The Best of Days' and 'You'll See Wonders" I've a blog of poems, stories and art at: https://1513fusion.wordpress.com/

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7 Responses to Battle of Flodden.

Francesco says:

May 2, 2021 at 2:59 pm

I am really impressed with your writing skills and also with the layout on your
blog. Is this a paid theme or did you customize it yourself?

Either way keep up the nice quality writing, it is rare
to see a great blog like this one these days.

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Harry Nicholson says:

November 6, 2013 at 8:02 pm

The term might derive from the Greek:
Thallos = green shoot
or German
Thal = valley

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Ina says:

November 5, 2013 at 11:08 am

http://archive.org/stream/battleoffloddenf00webe/battleoffloddenf00webe_djvu.txt (you probably know this already!)

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- Harry Nicholson says:
  
  November 5, 2013 at 2:46 pm
  
  Thanks, Ina. I picked up that source when researching for ‘Tom Fleck’. The poet is well informed.
  
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Ina says:

November 5, 2013 at 9:51 am

“Most fierce he fought at Thallian Field,
Where Martin Swart on ground lay slain;
Where rage did reign he never reel’d,
But like a rock did still remain.”

I found this poem this morning in a book “The Oxford Guide to Word Games” and it is about “Battle of Flodden Field” Henry Weber. The name Flodden made me look for this blog 🙂

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- Harry Nicholson says:
  
  November 5, 2013 at 2:48 pm
  
  Thallian Field. I wonder where that is located. The name features in one video game, it seems.
  
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  - Ina says:
    
    November 6, 2013 at 11:38 am
    
    It says in the notes: “1. 1221.
    
    ” I do not know what is meant by Thallian Field. I
    take the author to have been a Yorkshire schoolmaster;
    (Vid. Sir Edward Stanley’s Speech.) Having his
    head perhaps full of rhetorical figures, he uses the word
    Thallian for ThessaUan, per Syncopen, alluding to the
    plains of Thessaly, where a battle was fought, in the
    Roman civil wars, between Cassar and Pompey.”—
    Lam be.
    
    The reason why I cannot accede to Mr Lambe’s hy-
    pothesis of the schoolmaster, has been stated above.
    Thallian is perhaps a corruption, or, what is still
    more probable, a local appellation now lost. “