Aethelred failed to prepare for the Viking raids and invasions that would later bring Cnut to the throne of England, forging ...

The Anglo-Saxons "made the whole thing from scratch" rather than reuse an old coin, says an expert. Archaeologists found the remains of a ditch, indicating where Oxford's defences originally stood.

But the early Anglo-Saxons were not Christians ... when he was just seven years old. Bede wrote a book called 'A History of the English Church and People' in AD730. This was the story of the ...

The Anglo-Saxons had their own gods ... He went to live with monks, when he was just seven years old. Bede wrote a book called 'A History of the English Church and People' in AD730.

Archaeologists identified a British cave dwelling as the refuge for an exiled Anglo-Saxon king in 2021 ... The 1,200-year-old structure was built during the life of Northumbrian King Eardwulf.

One day, or perhaps one night, in the late seventh century an unknown party traveled along an old ... Anglo-Saxons' appropriation of Britain is starkly revealed in their most enduring legacy, the ...

In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ... to that depicted in the Old English epic poem, Beowulf.

What it is: A decorated Anglo-Saxon metal helmet with a faceplate ... to link the burial with the epic poem "Beowulf," an Old English tale that connects East Anglia with Scandinavia through ...

- a person of Anglo-Saxon (especially British) descent whose native tongue is English and whose culture is strongly influenced by English culture as in WASP for `White Anglo-Saxon Protestant' ...