Would you read this old one of mine and tell me what you think?

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One thousand years ago
Ethelred, unready paid
Thirty thousand pounds to the Danes
For two years of peace from their raids
Perhaps if he’d not defica’ ted’
In the Baptismal Font, and in his bed
Olaf Trygvasson’s fleet would have fled

Instead, Ethelred
Ordered them all massa’cred
And on St Brice’s they celebra’ ted
Foot games with heads of the Vikings dead
Sweyn Haraldsson so enraged
Engaged in campaign to win Engl’end
Thrown back in the sea again and again
By Edmund the Ironsi’ed’

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I have read this poem so many times!.!.!.liked it and like it, but I still don't understand the use of the apostrophes!.!.!.

EDIT: Elaine, yes, but how do you pronounce "Engl'end"!? with a glottal stop!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

The apostrophes indicate pronunciation!.

I have read this many times and it never grows old!. The imagery is superb, as is the flow of words!. Perhaps if we still taught history this way, modern students would remember it!. Epic poetry was used to teach history when most people were illiterate!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Pretty cool!. Nothing like a historic treatise on how soccer was invented!. And Engl'end was yclept Aenglentyine, in sooth she sung the beauty divine!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I think perhaps you have the start to a good movie, now write the screenplay!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I knew the history lesson, but you presented it far better than my old teacher!. The dialect filled the bones!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Unpaid someone is in debt!.
That can take an eternity to pay off
unless this person is a millionaireWww@QuestionHome@Com

Super!!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Gwad!.Where you'd get that!?!?!?!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

Lov'd it!Www@QuestionHome@Com