J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), a scholar of Old and Middle English, used alliterative verse extensively in both translations and original poetry. Most of his alliterative verse is in modern English, in a variety of styles, but he also composed Old English alliterative verses. Tolkien also wrote alliterative verse based on other traditions, such as the "Völsungasaga" and "Atlakviða", in "The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun" (2009), and "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son" describing the aftermath of the Battle of Maldon (1953). His Gothic "Bagme Bloma" ("Flower of the Trees") uses a trochaic metre, with irregular end-rhymes and irregular alliteration in each line; it was published in "Songs for the Philologists" (1936). He wrote a variety of pieces of alliterative verse in Old English, including parts of "The Seafarer" A version of these appears in "The Notion Club Papers." He also made translations including about 600 lines of "Beowulf" in verse.